Time has come to share our technical update for the first quarter of 2018. Below are the main actions undertaken on France-IX’s infrastructure during the period:

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• RPKI ROA/IRR filtering on route servers: 
  

Strict filtering based on IRR and ROA validation states has been activated on route servers. You can find all the useful information here: https://www.franceix.net/en/technical/france-ix-route-servers/ and check the amount of filtered routes through this link: https://tools.franceix.net/looking-glass

• QoS specifications:
  

Specifications describing how France-IX aims to provide the best quality of service are now available on our website: https://www.franceix.net/en/technical/qos-franceix/

• Dark fiber infrastructure:

2 new dark fibers have been activated with 200Gbps of capacity each one : Interxion PAR5-Online DC2 and Telehouse2-Online DC3. Now Online DC2 and DC3 edge PoPs are dual attached to core PoPs (Interxion PAR5 and Telehouse2).

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• Key technical numbers for Q1-2018 :

Customer ports connected in the last 3 months:

• 1G: 8 ports
• 10G: 19 ports
• 100G: 3 ports

Availability for Q1-2018:

Paris: > 99.993%
Marseille: 100%

Outages:

11/02/2018: A crash on a process caused the reload of some services on the router slx2.th2, impacting members connected on this equipment during 9mins

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• Next main actions:
  • Paris Backbone upgrades:
    • Equinix PA6 PoP will be replaced with an Extreme SLX-9850 in order to provide more 100G ports. Coriant Groove G30 will be also deployed to provide 2x400G of capacity between PA6 and PAR5/TH2 core PoPs
  • Marseille backbone upgrades:
    • In order to address the increasing demand of 100G ports, new 100G LC will be installed in Interxion MRS1 PoP.
    • Route servers: the physical servers hosting the route servers will be replaced by new ones.