1. Angela Chow Eskindir Ayallew Asmare Marvin Castañeda Otto Schäffer Zheng Zheng http://csd.ssvl.kth.se/~csd2004-team2 Nicaragua Internet eXchange NicIX

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

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

4. Current Situation

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

6. Drawbacks Congestion of international links Latency Unreliability

7. Solution Implement an IXP Reduces costs Lowers latency Scales bandwidth

8. 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

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

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

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

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

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

14. Topology of the IXP

15. 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

16. NICIX Services Port leasing Looking glass Statistics Secondary DNS server

17. NICIX Services (Continued…) Collocation Mailing list Support

18. Training Document Training document prepared Interdomain routing IXP services configuration

19. Problems the Team Encountered ISPs reluctant to answer the survey

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

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

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

23. Thank you The NicIX team csd2004-team2@csd.ssvl.kth.se