Angela Chow Eskindir Ayallew Asmare Marvin Castañeda Otto Schäffer Zheng Zheng Nicaragua Internet eXchange NicIX

Overview Background Goals Methodology Achievements Problems the team encountered Project status Summary

Background 5 million inhabitants 130,000 square kilometers About 2% Internet penetration Recently Joined CAFTA HIPC Initiative

Current Situation

Current Situation (Continued…) About 10% local traffic 11 ISPs Expensive international circuits Approximately 70Mbps international bandwidth Strong competition but also cooperation

Drawbacks Congestion of international links Latency Unreliability

Solution Implement an IXP Reduces costs Lowers latency Scales bandwidth

Goals and Objectives Goals Design an IXP Implement the designed IXP Objectives set to achieve the goals Develop a network design of the IXP Setup the IXP Develop business plan and organizational structure Train ISP operators and future IXP staff

Design Principles Autonomy to ISPs Scalability Reliability Easy adaptability to IPv6 Sustainability Economical

Methodology Goal oriented Literature review Team discussion Testing in laboratory Interview Survey

INTERNET ALFANUMERIC NEWCOM NETPORT UNA TERANET PCS IFX UNAN MANAGUA UNAN LEON IDEAY BELLSOUTH UNI CABLENET Desired ISP Connection Enitel L2-Eigrp IBW

IXP Design Architectures studied Layer 2 Layer 3 Preferred architecture Layer 2

IXP Design (Continued…) Layer 2 variants Pure layer 2 Layer 2 with route reflector Layer 2 with route server Preferred variant Pure layer 2

Topology of the IXP

Description The IXP will have an AS for the services (public ASN) ISPs may or may not collocate their routers in the IXP Two switches used for redundancy Load balancing

NICIX Services Port leasing Looking glass Statistics Secondary DNS server

NICIX Services (Continued…) Collocation Mailing list Support

Training Document Training document prepared Interdomain routing IXP services configuration

Problems the Team Encountered ISPs reluctant to answer the survey

Business Case Draft document to convince ISPs prepared Case study New business models Other benefits Draft organizational structure developed Draft service level agreement prepared

Project Status Completed Design Core equipment ordered Training document prepared Next step Presentation to ISPs Implementation Training

Summary IXP will play important role in Nicaragua Layer 2 IXP Few IXP services Design completed Next step is implementation

Thank you The NicIX team