Swiss. IX: short update Swi. NOG #10 Fredy Künzler President of the Swiss. IX Association kuenzler@init 7. net
Reminder: Swiss. IX is a volounteer driven Internet Exchange with many sponsors – therefore all ports are *FREE* ! 2
Swiss. IX today (April 20, 2005) 37 active participants: 3 Bedag Informatik, Cablecom, Cyberlink, dataway, Deckpoint, Dolphins, easynet, Econophone, Everyware, Fibrelac, Futurelab, Genotec, GGA Maur, Global Networks Schweiz, Hostpoint, Impro. Ware, Init Seven, LAN Services, Lie-Comtel, magnet. ch, Metanet, Monzoon, nexellent, nine. ch, Novanet, NTS Workspace, Open Systems, Saitis, Scan Plus, sense. LAN, Solnet, SWITCH, The Internet Company (TIC), Ticinocom, Tiscali, Trenka Informatik, VIA NET. WORKS.
Swiss. IX today (April 20, 2005) Several others currently in the setup procedure: aspectra, BIT (Bundesamt für Informatik), Cybernet, Interoute, IXBone, mhs@internet, Netstream, Online Consulting, Solnet (2 nd Port), The. Net 4
Swiss. IX today (April 20, 2005) 41 active ports: ~ 3 Giga. Ethernet ~ 38 Fast. Ethernet 5
Swiss. IX today (April 20, 2005) ~ 660 Prefixes currently seen at Swiss. IX (well aggregated) (requires peering with all participants – most participants follow an open peering policy) 6
Swiss. IX today (April 20, 2004) 7 - 5 active locations with participants: Inter. Xion Glattbrugg, iwb Basel, IXEurope 1 + 2 Zurich, colobern. ch. - 1 ready for service location without participant yet: ict center Vaduz (FL). - 1 future location: Layer One
Swiss. IX today (April 20, 2004) Current switching volume: ~150 Mbps. 8
Swiss. IX today (April 20, 2004) Traffic growth in the last 6 month: 9
Swiss. IX today (April 20, 2004) Development since January 2005: 10 - larger participants joined: Cablecom (AS 8404), SWITCH (AS 559) - foreign participants: Scan-Plus (AS 12399) - Corporates start to join: BEDAG
Why Swiss. IX? 11 - small ASN's buy IP transit for a relative small amount (price drop of IP transit of appx. 90% in the last 4 years versus port fees of commercial exchanges remain stable) ---> you need appx. 10 Mbps over a commerical exchange to make the pay-off
Questions? Happy Peering! www. swissix. ch 12