Swiss Internet Exchange Association Wouter van Hulten InterXion

Contents Introduction Current Situation Trends Solution Next Steps

Current Situation Internet in Switzerland Swisscom –Around 45% of all traffic through incumbent backbone CIXP (CERN) –34 members today –Cisco, Extreme Summit –Expansion to Telehouse (Geneva) TIX (IX-Europe) –40+ members? –Foundry BigIron switch –Expansion to new facilities No Internet Exchange Association

The Road Ahead: Trends in the European IXs Continued membership growth –Stage 1,2,3 More peerings –International and national ISPs, webhosting, ASP 100% growth of traffic every 6 months AMS-IX –e.g. AMS-IX will need to upgrade to 10 Gbps network interfaces New technologies –2,5Gbps backbones, growth in connection speed: 1Gbps minimum

Membership of European Internet Exchanges Source: exchange websites, Jan-00 & Sept-00, InterXion analysis

Growth of the Exchanges Source: InterXion analysis,

Problems in the core network Switch Capacity too low: 10Gbps interfaces Reliability and Resilience: Distributed Topology Scaling of the infrastructure Administration & Procedures: Best Current Practice

System Management How are others dealing with these issues? Example: CERNExamples: CERN, InterXion, IX-Europe, Telehouse General Assembly Executive Housing & Remote Hands Association Technical WG Members Note: Typical not actual organisation is shown.

What you win from an Association Quality of the infrastructure through cooperation Low Cost of connection: not-for-profit Open organisation Development –CIXP: Knowledge transfer: from R&D to Production –TIX: Expansion Best Common Practices & Standards –RIPE conference ( Working Group for future technologies & services –Multicast, IPv6 Branding “SwissIX powered”

Who pays for what? General Assembly Executive Housing & Remote Hands System Management Association Technical WG Members Hardware Fibre Housing 750EUR / cabinet 1130CHF / cabinet Membership Connection 1200EUR/1 Gb port 1800CHF Service Lease Purchase US$200,000 Note: Numbers are indicative from other European exchanges.

What are the Next Steps? Do you want an Association? Invitation: join the founding of SwissIX Association ! Founding Meeting –Date: 14 November 2000 –Location: to be announced –Time: 2pm –Contact:

Appendix: Aim of the Association “The purpose of the Organisation is to enable and facilitate (Internet) traffic. It can carry out all forms of business which are directly or indirectly associated with the above mentioned purpose or are suitable for promoting this purpose. The Organisation is non-profit making.” “The aim of the Organisation is to achieve its purpose through: –a) facilitating the direct or indirect connection to the Swiss Internet Exchange, for its members –b) to develop additional activities which serve the purpose of the Organisation.”