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Q2 2024 Technical Update

Q2 2024 Technical Update

Dear peers, We’re happy to share with you some technical news for the second quarter of 2024! News The standardization of our routing platform is approaching completion. In the last quarter, we conducted 2 additional migrations by incorporating new Nokia devices in Lyon and Paris, bringing the total number of Nokia routers in production to 20. Below are some details about these operations: Lyon: Deployment of a Nokia platform @Freepro Limonest datacenter: A new Nokia device have been deployed at…

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Q1 2024 Technical Update

Q1 2024 Technical Update

Dear peers, We’re happy to share with you some technical news for the first quarter of 2024! News Standardization of our routing platform is nearing completion. In the last quarter, we conducted 3 additional migrations by incorporating new Nokia devices in Lyon and Paris, bringing the total number of Nokia routers in production to 18. Below are some details about these operations: Lyon: Deployment of a Nokia platform within IN2P3 and Hostelyon datacenters New devices have been deployed at IN2P3…

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Q4 2023 Technical Update

Q4 2023 Technical Update

Dear peers, First of all, best wishes for this new year. We’re happy to share with you some technical news for the last quarter of 2023! News Standardization of our routing platform is nearing completion. In the last quarter, we conducted two major migrations by incorporating new Nokia devices, bringing the total number of Nokia routers in production to 15, spread across Paris, Marseille, Toulouse, Lille, and Lyon. Below are some details about these operations: Lyon: Deployment of a second…

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Q3 2023 Technical Update

Q3 2023 Technical Update

Dear peers, We’re happy to share with you some technical news for the third quarter of 2023! We hope you will read this review with interest! News Nokia rollout approaching completion Replacement and standardization of our routing platform, started back in 2020, is now close to an end. We deployed over the last 3 years no less than 13 Nokia routers in various locations: Paris, Marseille, Toulouse, Lille, Lyon … Nokia routers are now pushing 2Tbps of traffic, growing year…

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Q2 2023 Technical Update

Q2 2023 Technical Update

Dear peers, We’re happy to share with you some technical news for the second quarter of 2023! We hope you will read this review with interest!   News Lyon: Adding more co-location housing capacity As announced in the last Quarterly Report, a project to add additional rack space in the SFR Netcenter and IN2P3 PoPs has been launched. Some progress has been done during Q2, installation is almost finished. Peering services will be migrated progressively this summer in those new…

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Q1 2023 Technical Update

Q1 2023 Technical Update

We’re happy to share with you some technical news for this first quarter of 2023! We hope you will read this review with interest! News Lyon: Adding more co-location housing capacity The demand for hosting services is still high in the Lyon area. The existing hosting racks, which for some are more than 15 years old, are no longer suitable to sustain this growing activity, especially at the SFR Netcenter datacenter. Moreover, operating 600mm wide racks is difficult and sometimes…

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Q4 2022 Technical Update

Q4 2022 Technical Update

We’re happy to share with you some technical news for this fourth and last quarter of 2022! We hope you will read this review with interest! News Lyon/Grenoble: Consolidating dark fiber and wave infrastructure Deployment is still ongoing on the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (aka AURA) region. The consolidation of the architecture in Lyon is a prerequisite to some larger new projects that will start rolling out in the first part of 2023. The new 10GE waves between Lyon and Grenoble should be…

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Q3 2022 Technical update

Q3 2022 Technical update

We’re happy to share with you some technical news for this third quarter of 2022: General news France-IX Lille ready to connect customers Let’s be honest, we lack the talent to cook you good “welsh” or “carbonade flamande”. However, we very well know how to provide leading-edge interconnection services, especially in French regions! We’re happy to announce that France-IX Lille will open its doors this quarter! This new IX benefits from a more than ideal footprint at the crossroads of…

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Q2 2022 technical update

Q2 2022 technical update

We are publishing a global review of all the network and systems evolutions during the second quarter of 2022. General News Telehouse 2 – Leon Frot private room is now handling Telehouse 2 – Voltaire MMR customers The end of this long run project is near, it took us about one year to build the room and migrate smoothly customers from Voltaire to Leon Frot, about 30x100G ports and 80x10G ports have been moved representing around 600G of daily peak…

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Q4 2021 & Q1 2022 Technical Update

Q4 2021 & Q1 2022 Technical Update

The end of the year has proven very busy for France-IX’s technical team. We are thus publishing a global review of all the network and systems evolutions that occurred during the last quarter of 2021 bundled with the first quarter of 2022. General News Core routers are now deployed France-IX’s Core routing project was introduced and described in previous quarterly updates. The most important takeaways are that we launched an invitation to tender, which led us to selecting Cisco’s 8201-32FH…

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