______________________________________________________________________ DRAFT TRANSCRIPT SIG: IX Date: Thursday 2 March 2006 Time: 4.00pm Presentation: Equinix Sydney update Presenter: Akito Kurokawa ______________________________________________________________________ CHE-HOO CHENG: The next speaker is Akito from Equinix who will talk about the Equinix exchange update in Sydney. The speaker next is Takabayashi-san from JPIX. Please be ready. As a reminder for the speakers, please give all your slides to us and then we can put them on the website. AKITO KUROKAWA: My name is Akito Kurokawa from Equinix and we provide collocation exchange services in the US and Asia Pacific reaction and today I'm going to give a very general update on our Sydney Exchange and some of the initiatives that we'll be launching this year. Equinix Exchange in Sydney started in 2003. We had about three participants initially. Now we have about 18 participants and participants include domestic and international carriers, ISPs and content providers and, fortunately, we had some large international content providers join our content platform recently. We also provide collocation services, 24/7 services. We provide Fast Ethernet, MPLA and BLPA peering and depending on if the customer requests it, we'll have a separate VLAN for requests. We're a neutral IX and we also provide some form of proxy peering for people who don't have an AS so we assign private AS for those. As for the traffic trend, we've seen some steady growth and we have about 120 megs of traffic now on the average and we've had some pronounced peaks in the past several months and the topology that we use is pretty straightforward. We use Cisco and Foundry and we have route arbiter, route server running the Quagga routing suite and we also have a portal that provides utilisation statistics as well as some of the collocation environments and also an integrated ticketing system. The initiative that I want to talk about today is Equinix exchange extension and it's the extension of the exchange platform to the second and third largest population centres in Australia which is Melbourne and Brisbane. And the three sites will be connected by ethernet backhaul provided by next-gen networks. The three sites will be Equinix Sydney IBX and there is Melbourne Metronode Centre and Brisbane Metronode Centre. The primary benefit is it enables interstate peering via MLPA. It allows peers in each site to access peers in all three sites. We do have intrasite BLPA available and it basically allows for the usual case for peering is that you get to reach a larger number of users, which is about probably over 80 ISPs and content providers across the three states. And we're planning to launch this in March. As for the topology - we have leaf nodes going to Brisbane and Melbourne, which are L2 switches that terminate to L3 switches in Sydney, which proxies route server routes to each of the different sites. We don't allow BLPA across the different states. So it will be mainly MLPA. And I think for resiliency, we'll probably be adding more elements into this, especially the backhaul portion, in the future. But right now, this is how we're going to start up this exchange that is distributed across states. Any questions? SIMON HACKETT: How large are the inter-capital links? AKITO KUROKAWA: It's shaped to 100 megs. We don't have any scaling concerns by the traffic we're generating right now but we'll probably be able to provision on the fly. STEPHEN BAXTER: What's the tariff for the extended peering? AKITO KUROKAWA: It will be the same as if you were to buy a port in Sydney. Oh, sorry - can you go over there. DONOVAN LEITCH: The exact pricing is being worked out at the moment but basically it will be more, basically because the benefit you're getting by joining in Melbourne and/or Brisbane, you're seeing the benefit immediately of access to Sydney's traffic. STEPHEN BAXTER: Do we know how much more? DONOVAN LEITCH: Not at this stage. STEPHEN BAXTER: It's almost March. It is March. DONOVAN LEITCH: It is March, yeah. DAVID LUYER: Do you have some system in place to eliminate connections between ISPs in Brisbane and Melbourne abusing the WIDE area network which happened to the prior Australian exchange that did this? So in the prior Australian exchange to support Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane, it was a significant issue of abuse of WIDE area network between Melbourne and Brisbane. So do you have a system in place to prevent this? AKITO KUROKAWA: Right now we're not going to extend the L2 VLAN across the state. DAVID LUYER: I guess what happened in the prior exchange network was GRE tunnels between providers to abuse this WIDE area network. AKITO KUROKAWA: We don't have something systematic in place yet but we'll consider that later. BILL WOODCOCK: What's your definition of abuse because clearly the purpose of this is to be used? STEPHEN BAXTER: But the reality is it won't last forever. BILL WOODCOCK: I'm not suggesting this is a good idea. DAVID LUYER: The definition of abuse is where related companies would peer in Brisbane and Melbourne and then set up a GRE tunnel between the two and this would cause, you know, at the time, a megabit which was at that time thousands of dollars a month worth of transit to be trucked between Melbourne and Brisbane, as an example. STEPHEN BAXTER: I've obviously got an agenda here but it's a valid point - the example that David is talking about was the old Australian network and one of the things that led to it going away was its transition network. If that's going to take into account, is this being looked at? AKITO KUROKAWA: That's definitely something we're concerned about and we'll try to implement a system that will effectively eliminate those concerns. CHE-HOO CHENG: OK. Thank you, Akito.