European IXP Update

Andy Davidson Mike Hughes

UKNOF 9 - 13th January 2007

What is an IXP
Allows operators to exchange trafc with LARGE numbers of other networks on the internet on a SMALL number of cross-connects. Benets to operators include reduced cost, reduced latency, increased capacity, opportunities to sell services across the exchange, community assistance.

Euro-IX
IXPs are represented in Europe by Euro-IX, an association that promotes the sharing of knowledge, research and data between IXPs. The aggregate data in this Presentation comes from Euro-IX research, we thank Serge Radovcic.

IXPs in Europe
Euro-IX can identify 103 IXPs in 96 cities in 31 countries of Europe. 8 in UK (LINX, LONAP, LIPEX, MaNAP, MCIX, MerieX, PX, RBIEX) - UK6x closed at the new year. 1993 - 3 IXPs in Europe.
1999 - 36.

Non profit vs commercial IXP growth

80 70 60 50 40 30 20 Non profit IXP Commercial IXP

Mutuality
Vast majority of European IXPs are mutual - owned by members. Big 3 who account for >900Gbit of peak trafc all mutual.

10 0

20 00 20 01 20 02 20 03 20 04 20 05 20 06 20 07

19 97

92

93

96

19

19

19

19 99

95

19

19

94

19

98

Its published in the Communications Act that an IXP operator mustnt offer a presentation without including at least twelve trafc graphs.

London Peering
LINX LIPEX LONAP

Ams-IX

Major European Peering Hotspots....

DE-CIX

Espanix

Panap

A better way to show hotspots?

UK, DE, and NL way out in front due to effects of the big three. Networks from all over the world bring trafc to these exchanges.

Aggregated Peak Traffic per country

Luxembourg Croatia Ireland Iceland Romania Greece Latvia Portugal Estonia Slovakia Slovenia Ukraine Belgium Switzerland Austria Poland Norway Finland Russia Czech Republic Italy Hungary France Spain Sweden United Kingdom Germany Netherlands

40

80

120

160

200

240

280

320

Gbps

IXPs and Peak Trafc

Peak traffic > 100 Gbps 50 > 100 Gbps 20 > 50 Gbps 10 > 20 Gbps 5 > 10 Gbps 1 > 5 Gbps 500 > 1000 Mbps 100 > 500 Mbps < 100 Mbps # of IXPs 3 2 6 5 8 22 5 11 10 % of total 4% 3% 8% 7% 11% 31% 7% 15% 14%

IXPs and their peak traffic

< 100 Mbps 100 > 500 Mbps > 100 Gbps 4% 50 > 100 Gbps 3%

20 > 50 Gbps 10 > 20 Gbps

500 > 1000 Mbps 1 > 5 Gbps 31%

5 > 10 Gbps 11%

Total

72

100%

Total number of IXP particpants per country

London is #1 for reach!

The UK houses 601 peering networks, and 415 who peer nowhere but in the UK.

Cyprus Slovenia Malta Luxembourg Iceland Greece Portugal Croatia Estonia Finland Ireland Denmark Slovakia Romania Hungary Norway Ukraine Czech Republic Belgium Spain Austria Latvia Italy Poland Switzerland Sweden Russia France Germany Netherlands United Kingdom 0 100 200

Unique participating ASNs Total IXP particpants

300

400

500

600

577 ASNs peer at more than one IXP, so you may nd that your important target peers are at your local exchange. One ASN (8220) is present at 19 exchanges.

Number of ASNs

ASNs present at >1 IXP

ASNs present at multiple IXPs

306 112 55 30 22 18 10 7 3 2 3 1 1 1 1 3 1 1 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20

Number of IXPs

Using an IX as a Barometer
Usual to see trafc dip in Summer. This year, trafc dipped twice once in April when there was unusually warm weather across Europe, and once for the usual summer dip.

Summer 2005

310

290
305,170931 310,694097 307,431

270 287,02272
275,3971

250 a m j j a

Summer 2006

600 580 560 540 520 500 480 460 a m j

Summer 2007
518,2104 527,4817 505,4526 475,978 595,693

1050 1000 950

1019,59

900
863,77

945,7407

932,284 882,1

850 a m j j a

Identifying useful IXPs

You need to identify where your trafc goes (e.g. netow), then nd out where the remote network is connected, and if they will peer. www.peeringdb.com helps with the legwork.

Euro-ix for ISPs

www.euro-ix.net/isp/choosing/ Like peeringdb, it allows you to evaluate the value of an exchange in terms of which networks you can reach. Also allows you to compare other services an IXP can provide you in addition to access

.... of course there are (at least) two exchanges in the room who can answer specic questions about peering in London. :-)

Any Questions ?
LINX - sales@linx.net
Mike - mike@linx.net Andy andy@lonap.net

LONAP - sales@lonap.net

www.linx.net www.lonap.net www.euro-ix.net

.... or ask now :-)