France-IX

France-IX is a Paris-based Internet exchange point (IXP) founded in June 2010 as a membership organisation. As of 1 August 2015 it interconnects more than 278 members,[1] making it the largest IXP in France.

France-IX
Full nameFrance-IX
AbbreviationFrance-IX
FoundedJune 2010
Location France, Paris and Marseille
Websitewww.franceix.net
Members278 as of August 2015[1]
Peak314 Gbits/s as of April 2015[2]

History

France-IX was initially discussed by Raphael Maunier (then with Neo Telecoms) and Maurice Dean (then working for Google) in 2008 in Dublin. The project of setting up the internet exchange, initially called PhoenIX, was launched in December 2008. Christian Kaufmann (working for Akamai) and Nicolas Strina (then working for Jaguar Network) soon joined the initiative.[3]

Following the presentation, a survey was sent to the community of internet networks whose results were published during the FRnOG 14 in June 2009. Around that time, the working group got the official financial and logistics support from Jaguar Network, Google, Akamai, Interxion and Neo Telecoms and was renamed France-IX.

The first international presentation of this project was made during RIPE 59 in Lisbon.

Organisation

France-IX is composed of a non-profit association where each member holds one vote, and a commercial company, 100% owned by the association, in charge of daily operations. When a network subscribes to France-IX services, it becomes a de facto member of the association and holds the right to vote during the general assemblies. There are currently 278 members.

As of August 1, 2015, France-IX has eight board members, six of which are corporate seats (Akamai, Bouygues Telecom, Cloudflare, Google, Jaguar Network and Schneider Electric) and two individuals (Bocar Kane and Clément Cavadore). France-IX has nine employees.

Network

As of August 1, 2015, France-IX network has 11 points of presence (PoP).

  • Interxion 1, Aubervilliers
  • Interxion 2, Aubervilliers
  • Interxion 5, Saint-Denis
  • Telehouse 2, 75011 Paris
  • TelecityGroup 2, Courbevoie (Energy Park)
  • TelecityGroup, Aubervilliers (EMGP Business Park)
  • Iliad DC2, Vitry-sur-Seine
  • Iliad DC3, Vitry-sur-Seine
  • Digital Realty, Saint-Denis
  • Interxion MRS1 (ancien Netcenter SFR), Marseille
  • Jaguar Network MRS01, Marseille

Ports of connection

Services are available through two types of ports and several bandwidth options.

PortTraffic
1 Gbit/s LXtraffic up to 100Mbit/s
1 Gbit/s LXtraffic up to 200 Mbit/s
1 Gbit/s LXline-rate
10 Gbit/s LRtraffic up to 1Gbit/s
10 Gbit/s LRtraffic up to 2Gbit/s
10 Gbit/s LRline-rate

Services

France-IX offers the following professional services:

  • Public peering: Unicast & multicast IPv4, unicast IPv6
  • Interconnections with 5 internet exchange point in France, in Italy and in Luxembourg
  • Private peering (Closed user group)
  • NTP Synchronization
  • Routes servers (with the communities feature)
  • Webportal: private login per member, personal detailed traffic statistics.
  • 24/7 NOC

Community

France-IX community comes from all around the world. Any organisation which owns an Autonomous System Number (also known as ASN) can be connected to France-IX. The connected members of the internet exchange point have various profiles:

  • Operators / Services Providers / Internet Access Providers
  • CDN (Content Delivery Network)
  • Hosting companies
  • Cloud providers
  • Gamers
  • Online media
  • Corporations
  • DNS
  • Search engine

Partners

France-IX concluded five interconnections with other internet exchanges to foster the exchange of internet traffic in France and Europe.

  • SFINX based in Paris and operated by the French academic network (RENATER)
  • Lyonix based in Lyon, France, and operated by Rezopole
  • LU-CIX based in Luxemburg
  • TouIX based in Toulouse, France
  • TopIX based in Torino, Italy [4]

In 2012, France-IX rolled out a reseller program and counts seven resellers as of August 1, 2015.[5][6][7][8]

Events
  • France-IX was the host for the 26th Euro-IX Forum, which took place between 12 April 2015 and 14 April 2015 in Marseille.[9]
  • France-IX led three training sessions to help Comoros[10] and Guinea build their own national internet exchange points.

See also

References
  1. "France-IX: Current Members". Retrieved 2015-04-10.
  2. "France-IX: Bandwidth Statistics". Retrieved 2015-04-10.
  3. "Présentation de France-IX" (in French). Selfserveur. Retrieved 31 October 2015.
  4. http://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?C=0&ID=476850
  5. http://www.telecompaper.com/news/ix-reach-adds-15-members-to-france-ix-internet-exchange--926197
  6. http://www.hibernianetworks.com/hnservices/etherreach-global-ix/
  7. http://allafrica.com/stories/201309031106.html
  8. http://www.phibee.net/index.php/fr/produits-et-services/remote-ix
  9. https://euro-ix.net/news-and-events/euro-ix-forum/
  10. http://www.itwebafrica.com/network/333-africa/232563-comoros-undergoes-ixp-training

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