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The future of IXP’s will be service driven

The future of IXP’s will be service driven

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The future of internet exchange points is collaboration, “the point is not to be the biggest, it’s to be clever enough to make sure you facilitate the entry of a new network, instead of wanting to be the only one connecting this new network,” says France-IX CEO, Franck Simon. It’s been a good year for France-IX. The company has been successful in attracting a number of corporate companies, in addition to CDN’s (content delivery networks) and ISP’s (internet service providers)…

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Améliorations de la liste des membres

Améliorations de la liste des membres

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Pour vous faciliter la lecture et le tri des membres France-IX, un nouveau champ a été introduit : la politique de peering de chaque réseau. La politique d’un membre est soit inconnue (champ vide), ouverte, sélective, restrictive ou marketplace (service payant vers un vendeur connecté sur France-IX). Vous avez maintenant la possibilité de trier tous les champs disponibles : par numéro d’AS, par PoP, par capacité souscrite, par politique de peering, par adresses IP, par contact et par présence sur les serveurs…

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Rapport technique trimestriel Q2’17

Rapport technique trimestriel Q2’17

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Les principales actions finalisées au cours de cette période sont les suivantes : 1- Renouvellement de l’infrastructure réseau sur Paris en 3 phases principales (appel d’offre et sélection, POC et déploiement): Appels d’offre : trois appels d’offre ont été lancés sur des critères de réponse aux besoins techniques et de compétitivité de l’offre commerciale. Les résultats sont les suivants : Fibres noires : l’objectif principal était de reconstruire un backbone double cœur (Telehouse 2 et Interxion PAR5) avec chaque PoP périphérique en…

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Technical Quarterly Update Q2’17

Technical Quarterly Update Q2’17

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The main actions undertaken during that time include the following:   1- New Paris backbone infrastructure renewal with 3 main phases (RFP selection, POC and deployment): RFPs: 3 RFPs have been launched based on technical compliance and cost competitiveness with the following results:    Dark fibers: the main goal was to rebuild a dual core backbone (Telehouse 2 and Interxion PAR5) with every edge PoP dual attached to the core. Five new dark fibers have been deployed with new providers (IELO-LIAZO and…

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Renewal of France-IX’s board

Renewal of France-IX’s board

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Dear France-IX Members, Some of you brought up the question at the General Meeting last September about the concepts of the corporate board seat and if we should get rid of it as they seemed no longer up to date. As promised the board looked into it and also talked to our legal advisor regarding the wording and spirit of the articles. Here is the result: We do no have to change the articles of association as they allow for both,…

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Back to the RIPE trainings hosted by France-IX Marseille

Back to the RIPE trainings hosted by France-IX Marseille

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On May 31, June 1 and 2, France-IX hosted 2 RIPE Training Courses: LIR and RIPE database, and BGP operation and security training course. We want to thank the RIPE NCC Training Services, the Business and Management School in Marseille EMD and the Aix-Marseille French Tech for their support, as well as our 2 datacenter partners Interxion and Jaguar Network for our joint social events, and last but not least the 22 participants from Marseille, Toulon, Lyon, Toulouse, Nice, Paris…

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PeeringDB, a must-have for the peering community

PeeringDB, a must-have for the peering community

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For the second consecutive year, France-IX renews its support to peeringDB, a must-have for the peering community. peeringDB being non profit and member-based, the funds from France-IX and the other sponsors are used to maintain the database, develop new features and cover structural costs.Today peeringDB, a free resource available on the Internet, is essential for any peering coordinator, who uses it regularly or even automatically thanks to its recent APIs.   The database contains the locations and contacts of IP networks by AS number, IXPs such as France-IX…

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First step towards automated provisioning of peering services

First step towards automated provisioning of peering services

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Until last week, prospective members were able to download online and fill out an Adobe PDF file asking for their company information, billing and technical details. All this information is necessary to set up any new member in our internal system and prepare accurately the France-IX connection agreement. Once signed, additional technical information was requested by email in the vast majority of cases to finalize the service configuration. This means that multiple manual entries were required in our internal system…

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