Transcript CERN CIXP Developments, Paulo Maroni, CERN

CERN Internet Exchange Point
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CIXP
In Geneva, Switzerland, on the Franco-Swiss
border
Co-located with the CERN (European
Organization for Nuclear Research) computer
centre facilities
Started in 1995 as spontaneous request from the
local Internet community
Being an international research organization,
CERN can provide both the technical support and
the neutrality required for an Internet exchange
Non-profit, best-effort service
SwiNOG (18-10-2000)
Paolo Moroni (Slide 1)
Telecom providers
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Four basic fibre providers: Swisscom, France
Telecom, COLT and SIG (local electrical power
supplier); other operators (MCI Worldcom, Sunrise,
diAx, Thermelec, Multilink, etc.) buy and re-sell
bandwidth
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Several SDH 2.5 Gb loops already in operation; more
are being installed
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CIXP
Geneva is already part of a lot of pan-European
backbones; more are being deployed with CERN
active support
SwiNOG (18-10-2000)
Paolo Moroni (Slide 2)
Internet Service Providers
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30 ISPs are installed and active now: AUCS (Infonet),
AT&T Global Network (formerly IBM), Cablecom, Cable&Wireless,
Carrier1, COLT-CH, COLT-International, Deckpoint, Deutsche Telekom
(DTAG), diAx, Ebone/GTS, KPNQwest (formerly EUnet), France
Telecom (Opentransit), GlobalONE, Globix, HP, INSnet, ISDnet (Ipergy),
ISION, NWC, PSInet, MCI Worldcom, Petrel, Renater, Sunrise,
Swisscom (IP-plus), SWITCH, TEN-155 (*), Urbanet, ViaNetworks, VTX.
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CIXP
The recent trend is for more global ISPs and fewer
local ones
CERN and other research organizations are also
connected
SwiNOG (18-10-2000)
Paolo Moroni (Slide 3)
Infrastructure
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Cisco Catalysts (4003s and 5505)
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10/100/1000baseT ports available (most ISPs use
100baseT)
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Back-to-back links allowed
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ExtremeNetworks Summit48 being ordered
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FDDI phased out (recycled for special purposes)
CIXP
SwiNOG (18-10-2000)
Paolo Moroni (Slide 4)
Traffic
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CIXP
Informal measurements over the public
infrastructure show 100-200 Mb/sec at peak time
Back-to-back traffic to be added to get the global
aggregate
The infrastructure is kept oversized to avoid
congestion
SwiNOG (18-10-2000)
Paolo Moroni (Slide 5)
Normal services
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CIXP
Rack space
Electrical power (UPS)
Access control
IP administration
UTP cabling
SwiNOG (18-10-2000)
Paolo Moroni (Slide 6)
Informal services
Best-effort services:
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CIXP
OOB (cables and lines)
Back-to-back cabling
Most telecom-to-ISP cabling
24x7 operations (for power cycling,
emergency access, etc.)
Equipment installation: on request
Equipment maintenance (card replacement,
etc.): on request
WWW site (including a BGP list of contacts)
Infrastructure monitoring
SwiNOG (18-10-2000)
Paolo Moroni (Slide 7)
Current issues
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Staff (un-)availability
Rack space, both for telecom and router equipment
(some requests had to be rejected): no longer a real
issue in some cases
Contacts with some ISPs or telecom operators (a more
detailed installation procedure would help)
Pricing
CIXP
SwiNOG (18-10-2000)
Paolo Moroni (Slide 8)
Geographical distribution
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Limited to CERN until end of September 2000
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A new, non-exclusive partnership with Telehouse
(Suisse) S.A. has been finalized
Distributed infrastructure (Gb links) already
operational
Allow large points of presence directly connected
to the CIXP:
extended rack space availability
improved security and access control
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CIXP
Other partnerships are being discussed
SwiNOG (18-10-2000)
Paolo Moroni (Slide 9)
Development
Unfortunately limited by staff availability:
 new WWW site
 new DNS server (cixp.ch domain)
 split from CERN external network
 looking glass
 multicast
 statistics
 contents-distribution services
 CIXP members coordination (meetings, etc.)
 Secondary DNS, IPv6 (technical feasibility)
CIXP
SwiNOG (18-10-2000)
Paolo Moroni (Slide 10)
Commitment
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CIXP
CERN intends to continue to operate and
enhance the CIXP as long as the Internet
community (mainly in Switzerland) wishes
us to do so.
SwiNOG (18-10-2000)
Paolo Moroni (Slide 11)
Contacts
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E-mail: <[email protected]>
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http://network.cern.ch/public/services/cixp/index.html
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+41-22-7674894
Thank you
CIXP
SwiNOG (18-10-2000)
Paolo Moroni (Slide 12)