Na Me X Nautilus Mediterranean e Xchange point

Na. Me. X Nautilus Mediterranean e. Xchange point Maurizio Goretti CEO E-mail: m. goretti@namex. it Skype: maurizio. goretti sip: goretti@caspur. it RIPE 61 – Rome

Na. Me. X prehistory ü May 1995 - Borned in Rome one of the first Italian IXP - Nap. Roma ü From an initiative of 4 roman ISPs Agorà – Mc. Link – Unidata and a University Consortium CASPUR ü CASPUR chosed as place to host the IXP because of is neutrality RIPE 61 – Rome – M. Goretti@namex. it

Na. Me. X prehistory ü May 1995 - 4 ISPs requested an AS to RIPE at the same time ü Received 4 AS contiguos 5394 * 5395 * 5396 * 5397 ü ü 64 Kbps lines No Switch but a cable RG 58! (10 Base 2) ü Every time a new member entered the IXP it produced a stop in the NAP RIPE 61 – Rome – M. Goretti@namex. it

Na. Me. X prehistory RIPE 61 – Rome – M. Goretti@namex. it

Na. Me. X today ü ü ü Born in 2001 Changed from volunteer based to structured corsortium Nautilus Mediterranean e. Xchange Point IXP at the center of mediterranean area Na Me X RIPE 61 – Rome – M. Goretti@namex. it -R om e

Na. Me. X today ü ü It’s an infrastructure whom main goal is to give better opportunity to his members: Two main services ü ü Carrier room: where to buy and sell circuits and transit at best Peering room: where to peer with the largest number of ISP No restriction for membership (just AS number and IP network) We have only members and no customers RIPE 61 – Rome – M. Goretti@namex. it

IXPs in Italy ü ü Na. Me. X is the southern IXP in Italy. 7 Total! 3 new in 2009 FVG-IX TOPIX MINAP VSIX Italian IXP Na. Me. X TIX Milan TOPIX Na. Me. X VSIX TIX MINAP FVG-IX RIPE 61 – Rome – M. Goretti@namex. it

Peering ü Brain British Telecom CASPUR E 4 A GARR Cliocom Cogent Colt Telecom Eurnetcity Holy See Convergenze Eutelia F-root Fastweb I. NET Forinicom Infracom Interoute Lottomatica MC-Link Na. Me. X Panservice Postecom Retelit Seeweb Telecom. Italia Teleinform Unidata Wind Ydea Agesci Ok. Com Trentino Net Global Crossing ACI Network AKAMAI Active Network Aruba Fastnet J-root Internet Holy See (Vatican) ü First and only holy IXP in the world ü Note that their AS number it’s NOT 666 ! RIPE 61 – Rome – M. Goretti@namex. it

Italian IXP traffic RIPE 61 – Rome – M. Goretti@namex. it

Na. Me. X today ü ü ü Ordinary time work (no outsourcing) Help desk 24 x 7 x 365 ü 8: 30 – 17 -> Office ü Off-hour -> Available through cell phone (2 h) Help (out-insource from CASPUR) Double hat (myself) Assistance in installations and outages of members RIPE 61 – Rome – M. Goretti@namex. it

Site ü Data Center owned and managed by CASPUR ü University Computer Center (Top 500, Top Green 500) ü Very high standard (Tier III) ü Excellent maintenance ü Excellent response time ü Chosen as colocation by several Italian critical services ü Chamber of Deputies ü Italian Government ü National Public Network (SPC) ü Italian Research Network (GARR) RIPE 61 – Rome – M. Goretti@namex. it

Peering Prices ü ü Reduced 30% respect 2009 (because of the transit prices) Bandwidth Yearly cost 50 Mbps EUR 2500 100 Mbps EUR 5000 500 Mbps EUR 11000 1 Gbps EUR 12000 5 Gbps EUR 20000 10 Gbps EUR 23000 20 Gbps EUR 35000 Free additional ports (aggregations + redundancy) Free co-location (up to 2 equipments) Transit VLANs RIPE 61 – Rome – M. Goretti@namex. it

Carrier room ü Carrier Interconnections/Meet Me Room (MMR) British Telecom Cogent Colt Telecom Eutelia Fastweb Global Crossing Infracom Interoute MC-Link Retelit Tata Telecom. Italia Unidata Wind Telefonica (TIWS) ü ü One of best connected site in south Europe Fees ü Space + Kw + patch panel (from 2500 euro/year) ü http: //www. namex. it/fees RIPE 61 – Rome – M. Goretti@namex. it

Meetings ü Two meetings every year ü More than 100 attendees ü Meet CTO & CEO members and share ideas ü General Meeting (Fall - Winter) ü Peering Workshop (Spring-Summer) ü Next Meeting will be held in Rome: ü 7 th General Meeting, January 2011 ü meeting@namex. it RIPE 61 – Rome – M. Goretti@namex. it

Future ü More interconnection & less peering? ü Transit price continues to go down ü Faster and cheaper technology ü The main role of Consortium is to provide services for members; interconnection is what members mostly ask now. ü We must consider Na. Me. X not just as peering point but as a place “where network meets” ü Two projects: ü Presence in Mediterranean Landing stations ü AMS-IX agreement RIPE 61 – Rome – M. Goretti@namex. it

Submarine cable world RIPE 61 – Rome – M. Goretti@namex. it

At the center of Mediterranean Ports available 100 Mbps 250 Mbps Na. Me. X is also present at Marseille 500 Mbps Bari 1 Gbps 10 Gbps Mazara del Vallo - Sicily Na. Me. X is present at Italian landing Station RIPE 61 – Rome – M. Goretti@namex. it

Na. Me. X & AMS-IX ü ü ü Na. Me. X & AMS-IX mutual partnership Interconnection between IXPs ISPs present at Na. Me. X (Mazara, Bari, Marseille, Rome) are also connected to AMS-IX and vice versa RIPE 61 – Rome – M. Goretti@namex. it

Thanks! Maurizio Goretti E-mail: m. goretti@namex. it Skype: maurizio. goretti sip: goretti@caspur. it Web: www. namex. it RIPE 61 – Rome