RIPE39 EIX WG Update Keith Mitchell Chief Technical Officer

RIPE39 EIX WG Update

Keith Mitchell

Chief Technical Officer

© XchangePoint, 2000 2

What we are doing

XchangePoint is building, and will provide and operate: Well funded Neutral State of the art Well managed High capacity and performance Reliable Open Flexible, responsive and customer-focussed

Internet Peering Point (IPP) services in 5-10 European cities in the next 3+ years


Who we are

Richard Almeida

Alex Bligh

Founders

Keith Mitchell CTO

Annette Nabavi CEO

Brett Wilde COO

Stephen Coles CFO

Christopher Curry Planning

Management

Jeff Meulman Sales

Engineering 6 former LINXengineers +1 Admin

Advisory Board Randy Bush Rob Blokzijl


Our Differences & Strengths

VC funding for-profit €9M in place now not a membership organisation

Non-restrictive participation

Pan-European

Multiple Co-Location providers’ sites in each city

Fast Provisioning

Neutrality….


XchangePoint’s Neutrality Principles

VC ownership is Neutral

ISP and Carrier Neutral we will not compete with our customers we will not move traffic between cities or countries no exclusive arrangements

CoLo Provider Neutral present at 3 CoLo sites per city partner with multiple CoLo providers as customer choice of CoLo sites for our peering customers no exclusive arrangements

Service provision will be Neutral


Our Implementation Strategy

We have, will and are building IPPs from scratch where there is demand

We want to partner with existing IPPs where possible & appropriate

Service needs of emerging IPP customer communities

Important to keep co-ordination and dialogue channels open in evolving market


Architecture OverviewMetro Area Architecture - London

2 “Core” nodes per city 10 racks 2 Extreme BlackDiamond switches

2 or more “Basic” nodes per city 3-5 racks 2 Extreme Alpine switches

ADVA WDM equipment at all sites

Dark fibre metro ring connecting all sites in city

Gigabit Ethernet between switches and sites

10-Gigabit capable

Telehouse

North

Other colo

Global Switch

East

Redbus Interhouse

Ethernet SwitchEthernet Switch Metro DWDM Terminal

CustomerCo-Lo Facility Dark Fibre


Ethernet Switches

2 Extreme Black Diamond 6808i switches at Core sites

2 Extreme Alpine 3804 switches at Basic sites

Each switch at each site connected to one of two separate wavelength overlay networks

Virtual dual-vendor approach different code on each overlay network’s switches

Dual overlay networks connect at Core nodes maximum flexibility for high bandwidth interconnect within Core


DWDM Node


DWDM Advantages

Bandwidth multiplication

Provides extra resilience optical circuit protection around ring or use inter-switch trunking for each ring path faster fail-over than spanning tree

New services Inter-site Private Interconnect

Improves scalability

Permits multiple logical topologies over single physical MAN

Can conserve switched bandwidth


Network WDM Topology

AlpineSwitch

AlpineSwitch

AlpineSwitch

Black DiamondSwitch

AlpineSwitch

Black DiamondSwitch

Black DiamondSwitch

Black DiamondSwitch

BASIC SITE BASIC SITE

SECONDARYCORE SITE

CORE SITE

Core Switchinterconnect

BackupCore Switchinterconnect


DWDM Configuration

ADVA system supports 32 protected wavelengths () per fibre ring

Initial configuration 8: 3 for inter-switch backbone connections 1 for R&D/test (e.g. dedicated multicast overlay) 4 can provide up to 12 unprotected private interconnects

Later configurations will exploit multiplexing capability of ADVA equipment:

up to 8x1 Gigabit channels per 10G

Remaining can be used to increase backbone or PI capacity in 1G or 10G increments


Private Interconnect

Copper and Fibre cross-connect available as a service within sites

Can dedicate single DWDM /channel to private interconnect between two high-volume peering customers

Gigabit ethernet, also STM-4, STM-16 options

Protected and unprotected options

-interconnect will be available between ISPs only not available for within a customer’s backbone to avoid competing within

conventional carrier business and maintain our neutrality


Build Status

London nodes mostly complete live and ready for service !

First site Redbus Interhouse Harbour Exchange in London

Telehouse London: Nodes in both North and East buildings

Global Switch London complete early May

DWDM fibre network mid/end June

Redbus Paris late summer


Redbus Interhouse Core Node


Telehouse East & North Nodes


Global Switch Basic Node


Service Trial

Pilot service available now

Incentives for early adopters

Available until either: 10 trial participants inter-site fibre network lit

2 x 100M or 2 x 1G ports per participant availability subject to capacity at site

Best efforts for now - full SLA at end of trial


Current Customers

Connected now: XO Verio / NTT

Connecting soon: AboveNet C&W / INS

Enquiries from over 30 more ISPs being followed up


Service Offerings

Copper & Fibre in-building connection to node

Gigabit Ethernet ports

100baseT Ethernet ports

In-site wiring private interconnect

Inter-site private interconnect


Service Level Agreement Commitments

Service provision within 10 days of order

Response to 24x7 customer support requests

Availability: 99.7% Lower level of 99.0% for single-homed customers and unprotected circuits

Packet loss: 0% within single site 0.05% between sites

Rebates for failure to perform


Value-Added Services

Cisco 7200 Collector router at each core site

Traffic statistics servers per-customer private stats option

Out-of-band console access Customer dial-in via ISDN30/Cisco 3640

Media converters


Future Services

24x7 pan-European NOC

Multicast traffic exchange banging of switch vendor heads together still needed…

IPv6 mostly just addressing, allocation issues

10G Ethernet between switches 2001 Q3

Start thinking about inter-ISP VoIP interconnect issues

Build team will become R&D team


Contact Details

CTO: Keith Mitchell

Sales: Jeff Meulman

Web: www.xchangepoint.net

Presentation: www.xchangepoint.net/info/ripe39-eix.ppt

E-mail: [email protected]

Phone: +44 1733 865022

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RIPE39 EIX WG Update Keith Mitchell Chief Technical Officer