1. Equinix IXP Update
Feb 7-8, 2000
NANOG 18 – San Jose

2. Interconnection Media
Equinix’s primary exchange model is a “dark fiber” exchange--private cross connects are the primary method for participants to trade traffic.
ASX-4000 with OC3 and OC12 ports; OC48 possible, but higher speeds mostly dark fiber; lower speeds mostly direct copper.
Non-blocking fabric; configurations permit asymmetric PVCs (CBR and UBR PVCs supported)
Feb 7-8, 2000
NANOG 18 – San Jose

3. Tools – Research & Ops in Brief
rsd
New RPSL Tools turned back into gated consortium
MPLS in BGP for rsd
DNS Anycast
Shadow today
Anycast draft to discuss ops best practices for authoritative servers
draft-ietf-dnsop-hardie-shared-root-server-00.txt>
NTP & Synch Signal
ECCS
Provisioning tool for PVCs and Dark Fiber Cross Connects, access reports, etc.
Feb 7-8, 2000
NANOG 18 – San Jose

4. Service Delivery & Administrative Network
Root Service
Service Delivery & Administrative Network
Filtering
Zone file xfers
Synchronization
Closest topological
Failover
Admin
WAN A
IXP SW
AnyCastRootServer B R R
NTP C A
IXP SW
AnyCastRootServer B R R
NTP C
Looks like a
single root server A
IXP SW
AnyCastRootServer B R R
NTP C A
IXP SW
AnyCastRootServer B R R
NTP C
Example:
Anycast Root Service
Feb 7-8, 2000
NANOG 18 – San Jose
Internet Exchanges
Service Delivery Boundary

5. Participants MCI, AT&T, Atlantic Media, Bell Atlantic, Level3
Cable and Wireless, Concentric, TeleGlobe, NetRail
Blue Mountain Arts, Akamai, Webcash, 1xNet, NorthPoint, Ernst & Young Technology, and others.
Feb 7-8, 2000
NANOG 18 – San Jose

6. Growth Projections & Plans
30+ Global locations Over Next 4 Years
San Jose, Ashburn, Newark today, Chicago, LA, Dallas 2Q’00
Feb 7-8, 2000
NANOG 18 – San Jose