NaMeX overview @ Topix technical committee

2010 Update

Flavio Luciani flavio.luciani@namex.it  

NaMeX Nautilus Mediterranean eXchange point

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NaMeX Overview (1)

-  Neutral, member-based, not-for-profit IXP based in Rome

-  Founded in 1995, established as a consortium in 2001

-  Counting 38 members -  Large National ISPs -  Local ISPs -  International carriers and CPs (Akamai) -  Research network -  http://www.namex.it/en/who/members

-  Two main service categories -  Peering and other IP services -  Carrier interconnection services (physical)

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-  12Gbps of exchanged traffic in the last year

-  Member of Euro-IX association

-  R&D partnerships with Roma 3 University and The  Na7onal  Research  Council  (CNR)

-  Trainings (ISC DNS&BIND course)

-  Housing Italian Public Administration Qualified Exchange Network (QXN)

NaMeX Overview (2)

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  Public and private peering, transit VLANs:

-  Redundant high-end switching platform

-  Members peering on public VLANs via BGPv4 -  Private peerings and transit on dedicated VLANs -  Back-to-back interconnection

-  Route Servers infrastructure -  IPv4/IPv6 support -  Multicast peering in a separate Vlan

-  Info: http://www.namex.it/en/services/publicpeering

Peering & IP Services

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British Telecom Cogent Colt Telecom Eutelia Fastweb Global Crossing Infracom Interoute MC-Link Retelit

Tata TelecomItalia Unidata Wind Telefonica (TIWS)

Carrier Services

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-  Global DNS: F-root and J-root name servers anycast replicas

-  Verisign RIRs (.com and .net TLDs) -  Out-of-band access -  AS112 server for catching private space DNS queries

-  iBGPlay: monitoring of BGP paths and reachability in real time -  Several tools on Website:

-  BGP aggregation

-  IXPWatch -  Meeting/Workshop -  Info: http://www.namex.it/en/services/additional

Additional Services

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NaMeX & AMS-IX

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Meetings

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Thanks

Flavio Luciani

E-mail: flavio.luciani@namex.it Web: www.namex.it

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