1. Serbian Open Exchange Seven years from the beginning
Nenad Krajnović, SOX CTO
Zoran Perović, SOX CEO

2. SOX started at 2010…
Started with 2 services: members peering and L2VPN.
Only 2 nodes.

3. Today SOX…
Is neutral and fully open platform for virtual interconnection with Internet Exchange as one of the services

4. Communication, Cooperation, Collaboration
Today SOX…
Is nothing like in 2010
Plans are meant to be broken/exceeded
Feedback from the community
Help from the community
New ideas/services
Persistence
Communication, Cooperation, Collaboration

5. Today…
A lot of members, a lot of services and a lot of sites (maybe to much)

6. Total traffic over 200Gbps
In-house developed sflow collector and analysis system based on pmacct.

7. Services IPv4 and IPv6 Internet Exchange Private VLANs (QinQ)
4 root DNS servers SOX
On-demand Anti-DDoS protection in cooperation with Voxility
TV channels exchange and distribution
CDNs peering
Regional peering

8. Internet measuring tools @ SOX
RIPE Atlas Anchor
RIPE Atlas probes
Ark - CAIDA
Route-view node – University of Oregon
MLAB – Measurement Lab (Google)
RATEL network performance measuring system

9. I-root (Netnod) J-root (Verisign) K-root (RIPE) L-root (ICANN)
root DNS servers – 4 of 13 in Belgrade, with RTT less then 1 msec

10. Hosting of RATEL NetTest

11. Future plans Expand the network coverage
Bring more CDNs, cloud providers, XaaS to the region
Further trust building
Connect with neighboring IXPs
Investment in new services

12. Lessons, hints, pitfalls
Be very, very, very patient and persistent
Don’t hesitate to reach out, and ask for help
Learn every day, not just about technology, but about human need to communicate
Listen to your partners/client/customers
Imagine, Invent, Innovate, Integrate
Do not plan retiring on the Greek coast with IXP business. IXP will not get you there!!!
Communicate, Cooperate, Collaborate

13. How SOX really works?

14. Serbian Open Exchange Seven years, and still learning
Nenad Krajnović, SOX CTO
Zoran Perović, SOX CEO
Questions ?