______________________________________________________________________ DRAFT TRANSCRIPT SIG: IX Date: Thursday 2 March 2006 Time: 4.00pm Presentation: AMS-IX update Presenter: Cara Mascini ______________________________________________________________________ CHE-HOO CHENG: Next speaker is Cara Mascini. CARA MASCINI: OK, my name is Cara Mascini. Since we're doing the update for the first time here, I included some background information. It will follow. AMS-IX is a not-for-profit association which was founded in the summer of the beginning of the '90s. We are independent and neutral and it was, an association was formed in 1997, the exchange started a bit earlier, and when it got larger and larger it was decided to actually form a company, that is actually owned by the association, for 100%. As a whole. That means the individual members are all equal and have 100% of the shares as a whole. So no individual shares there. At the moment, we have about 240+members, most of which are ISBs, telecom providers, everything you can think of. A number of mobile telecom providers because we host the GRX. So port and member statistics. I actually included last year's at the RIPE meeting, we always do this. We do it each half a year. That would be taking a half year's update. You can see that we've grown with quite a bit in the last year. Although it's not much different than previous years. Normally the member growth and actual port growth is linear. So since the beginning of the exchange, there's been a linear growth of members and ports. The traffic, though, grows exponentially, doubling every 10 months. We had in January just over 350 ports. The most of which were GigE ports. In 2004, we launched a service and we actually had a lot of requests for those last year. Up to the fact where it became a little bit problematic at times. We've also seen a lot of link aggregation. And the ports grow a bit due to the fact we have - mostly mobile service providers connecting to the GRX VLAN. We have two core switches. We implemented them at the end of 2005. And we needed them badly at that time to be able to support the 10GE growth. We connect - we're a Foundry. And we have seven Edge-switches at four locations. Those are scattered throughout Amsterdam over four locations we have. Two of those are like the original co-locations we have. They have a more academic profile and we have commercial co-locations or data centres. You can see there is a blue and a red, hub-spoke situation. All it is the other core switch that is active. And the way we do that is we use photonic switches where we connect 10MG 8. We run to switch from one core to the other. There is something that, whether we should do maintenance or something should be swapped. So it's an automatic fail over from one to the other. Traffic and volume statistics. You look at the daily profile. We actually do about 135 gigabits per second. It's a 5-minute average and at night we're just under 60 gigs of traffic. The volume that we do grew quite a lot in the last year from 12 petabytes a month. We did one petabyte session a day for the last month. I've got some member survey results that I wanted to share with you. We did a member survey in the last, at the end of 2005. I've been told people would be interested in hearing about that. We asked the new members why they joined up with AMS-IX. Most of them chose the number of routes that I can get at the exchange. The existing members actually said, "I'm staying, I keep being connected because I realise so much savings. There's no reason to disconnect." The performance of the network operating team, that's basically response to requests, maintenance updates, things like that. Keeping everything stable and alive. Most of the platform parameters that we report on - packet loss, delay and jitter, are considered good to outstanding. How we report on that and make this available on the website is we use the RIPE NCC TTM project. That measures traffic and barometers between the switches. The one thing that we didn't do very long ago is reporting. So we can work on that. We will. Something else that we asked people, that is, respondents of the survey, that how is your, what is the establishment of peering sessions - do you have any problems with that. Is it a good experience that you have? And most parties are having a good experience with setting up the peering. They can fight the peering information. It's all available online but it's sometimes difficult to actually find. So that is that. In terms of the paying policies that are used, most of the parties have an open peering policy, which is kind of standard at AMS-IX. There is a large group of carriers that has a restrictive or even closed policy. 87% chose that they have an open or semi-open policy. About 64% of the participants peer with more than 100 unique ASs. And they are connected to a 4+exchanges. I excluded the ones that chose for a 10+connected exchange, so the big guys are excluded there. Most of the networks are connected to average 4 exchanges. The ones that were mentioned were DE-CIX, LINX, NL-IX and Equinix. A lot of others were mentioned but they were the main ones. The 10GE uptake up is continuously high so we're working on platform developments and we're pushing the MGH to the edge. We're replacing those MG8s with MG16s. We're upgrading the platform. AMS-IX didn't have a route server for a long time and people were asking us to set up a route server, so we did. It's not being used that much yet. Having a route server would serve the smaller members a lot in keeping their CPU load low or lower. And it also serves the larger members because they get a lot of requests from the smaller members and they don't want to set-up like a million sessions, so they use the server for that. We launched the support of CWDM GE interfaces. There's a lot of developments on VoIP, ENUM and services that were looking into what should be the position of the Exchange? Should we do anything with it or keep clear of that? The same goes for streaming and DRM support. It's all value-added services that we may or may not go into ourselves and if we do, we will sort that. Any questions? CHE-HOO CHENG: Any questions? Thank you. APPLAUSE