Transcript ripe40-eix - Keith Mitchell

XchangePoint Update
RIPE40 EIX Working Group
Keith Mitchell
Chief Technical Officer
2nd October 2001
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What we are doing
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XchangePoint is operating and building infrastructure across
Europe to provide state of the art interconnection facilities
between service providers on an open, neutral, customerfocussed commercial basis.
We are fully funded and open for business in London, and plan
to open in several other major European cities in 2001/2.
Our services support not just public switched peering between
traditional ISPs, but other forms of metro-area IP interconnection
available to any appropriate party using a range of innovative
and resilient technologies.
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Who we are
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Board, Founders, Investors, Advisors:
 http://www.xchangepoint.net/whoweare/
Management team:
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Annette Nabavi, CEO
Keith Mitchell, CTO
Brett Wilde, COO
Jeff Meulman, Director of Sales
Engineering team: 6
Sales & Marketing team: 2
Finance/Planning/Admin: 3
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Our Differences & Strengths
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VC funding
 for-profit
 €9M in place now
 not a membership organisation
Non-restrictive participation
Pan-European
Multiple Co-Location providers’ sites in each city
Private Interconnect as well as Public Peering
Fast Provisioning
Neutrality….
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XchangePoint’s Neutrality Principles
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VC ownership is Neutral
ISP and Carrier Neutral
 we will not directly compete with our customers
 we will not move traffic between cities or countries
 no exclusive arrangements
We only interconnect between CoLo sites
CoLo Provider Neutral
 partner with multiple CoLo providers as customer
 choice of CoLo sites for our peering customers
 no exclusive arrangements
Service provision will remain Neutral
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Planned Roll-Out
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First Round Sites
 London
Second Round Sites
 Paris (Q4 2001)
 Frankfurt (Q1 2002)
Proposed Sites
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Milan
Madrid
Munich/Hamburg
Geneva/Zurich
Brussels
Copenhagen
Amsterdam
Vienna
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Architecture Overview
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Present at 3 co-location sites per city
Dark fibre metro ring connecting all sites in city
2 “Core” sites per city
 10 racks
2 or more “Basic” sites per city
 3-5 racks
DWDM equipment at all sites
Gigabit Ethernet between switches and sites
10-Gigabit capable
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Ethernet Switches
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2 Extreme Black Diamond 6808i switches at Core sites
2 Extreme Alpine 3804 switches at Basic sites
Each switch at each site connected to one of two separate
wavelength overlay networks
Virtual dual-vendor approach
 different code on each overlay network’s switches
 easy to switch half of network to alternative vendor (e.g. Foundry)
Dual overlay networks connect at Core nodes
 maximum flexibility for high bandwidth interconnect within Core
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DWDM Advantages
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Bandwidth multiplication
Provides extra resilience
 optical circuit protection around ring
 or use inter-switch trunking for each ring path
 faster fail-over than spanning tree
New services
 Inter-site Private Interconnect
Improves scalability
Permits multiple logical topologies over single physical MAN
Can conserve switched bandwidth
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Private Interconnect
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Targetted at customers with requirements for:
 high traffic volumes
 dedicated capacity
 additional security/resilience
Copper and Fibre cross-connect available as a service within
sites
Virtual private interconnect using VLAN-based Ethernet
Optical private interconnect using dedicated DWDM /channel
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Gigabit Ethernet
STM-4, STM-16
T3, STM-1, STM-64 options Q1/2 2002
Protected and unprotected options
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VLAN-based Services
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Demand in market for:
 Point-to-Point Virtual Private interconnects using 100Mb/s Ethernet
 “Closed User Group” Virtual Private Exchanges
e.g. for:
 connecting transit customers to wholesaler
 higher levels of security and robustness
 peering communities with particular requirements
Lower cost than optical private interconnect, easy migration path
Can mix these services with public peering on same port,
provided customer router supports 802.1q tagged VLANs and
sub-interfaces
Nominal set-up fees
Can be used a VPN service, but not main target audience
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Current London Locations
 Core Sites:
 Redbus Interhouse, Harbour Exchange
 Telehouse East, East India
 Basic Sites:
 Global Switch, East India
 Telehouse North, East India
 Considering additional London sites
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Redbus Interhouse and Telehouse Nodes
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Service Status
 London network has been live for nearly 4 months 
 Service trial successful, completed end September:
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 10 public peering participants
 peaking 80Mb/s traffic
 have met SLA targets throughout trial 
Currently converting trial customers to paying ones
Full SLA for paying customers from October 1st
Web site recently overhauled with new product info
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Current Traffic
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Current Customers
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Mailbox
NewNet
Verio
AboveNet
Intensive
Nildram
XO
Star
Level3
Nextra
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Service Offerings
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Copper & fibre in-building connection to node:
 MetroXP Install
Public Switched Peering:
 MetroXP 1000:
Gigabit Ethernet
 MetroXP 100:
100baseT Ethernet
Private Switched Peering (VLAN):
 MetroXP vConnect 100:
Virtual private interconnect
 MetroVPX:
Virtual private exchange
Private Interconnect:
 MetroXP Connect:
In-site wiring
 MetroXP Connect 1000:
Gigabit inter-site 
 MetroXP Connect 622, 2400:
SDH inter-site 
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Service Pricing
Service
Annual Port Initial Set-up
Fee
Fee
MetroXP 100
£6,000
£2,000
MetroXP 1000
£15,000
£5,000
£12,000
£4,000
£25,000
£50,000
£10,000
£20,000
MetroXP vConnect 100
 2 ports
MetroXP Connect 1000
 Unprotected
 Protected
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Prices in UK£ sterling, excluding VAT
Annual fees billed quarterly in advance
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Service Level Agreement Commitments
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http://www.xchangepoint.net/custinfo/SLA.html
Service provision within 10 days of order
Response to 24x7 customer support requests
Availability: 99.97%
 Lower level of 99.9% for single-homed customers and unprotected
circuits
Packet loss:
 0% within single site
 0.05% between sites
Rebates for failure to perform
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Acceptable Use Policy
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http://www.xchangepoint.net/custinfo/AUP.html
Designed to:
 be minimally restrictive
 protect customers and infrastructure from malice/accidents
Main principles:
 nature of traffic and commercial terms are purely bi-lateral matter
for peers
 don’t do anything that affects other customers adversely
More constraints for public peering than private interconnect
 e.g. AS number and PI address space needed for public peering
“Non-standard” traffic addressed in SLA rather than AUP
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Value-Added Services
 Cisco 7200 Collector router
 Traffic statistics servers
 per-customer private stats option
 MetroXP Console: Out-of-band access
 Customer dial-in/telnet via ISDN30/Cisco 3640
 Media convertors
 fibre/copper
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New Services
 IPv6
 we finally have our address space !
 address allocations made to existing customers
 mix IPv4 and IPv6 on same port ?
 MetroXP Multipeer: Optional MLPA router
 Have been awarded contract to host one of 5
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Nominet .uk secondary name servers
Customer private web pages
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Future Services
 Multicast traffic exchange
 will probably require dedicated additional switch network,
due to non-interoperability between different vendors:
 Cisco RGMP now open Internet Draft
 Foundry support PIM snooping
 Extreme might support MBGP snooping
 community needs to bang switch vendors’ heads together on this
 Sub-gigabit private interconnect Q1 2002
 E3/T3, 100baseFX, STM-1/4
 10G Ethernet between switches Q1 2002
 new switch models
 24x7 pan-European NOC
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Contact Details
CTO:
Sales:
Web:
Presentation:
E-mail:
Phone:
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Keith Mitchell
Jeff Meulman
www.xchangepoint.net
www.xchangepoint.net/info/ripe40-eix.ppt
[email protected]
+44 20 7592 0370