Feb 7-8, 2000 NANOG 18 – San Jose

Equinix IXP Update

Feb 7-8, 2000 NANOG 18 – San Jose

Interconnection Media

• Equinix’s primary exchange model is a “dark fiber” exchange--private cross connects are the primary method for participants to trade traffic.

• ASX-4000 with OC3 and OC12 ports; OC48 possible, but higher speeds mostly dark fiber; lower speeds mostly direct copper.

• Non-blocking fabric; configurations permit asymmetric PVCs (CBR and UBR PVCs supported)

Feb 7-8, 2000 NANOG 18 – San Jose

Tools – Research & Ops in Brief• rsd

– New RPSL Tools turned back into gated consortium– MPLS in BGP for rsd

• DNS Anycast– Shadow today– Anycast draft to discuss ops best practices for authoritative

servers– draft-ietf-dnsop-hardie-shared-root-server-00.txt>

• NTP & Synch Signal• ECCS

– Provisioning tool for PVCs and Dark Fiber Cross Connects, access reports, etc.

Feb 7-8, 2000 NANOG 18 – San Jose

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IXPSW

R RNTP

AnyCastRootServer

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IXPSW

R RNTP

AnyCastRootServer

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IXPSW

R RNTP

AnyCastRootServer

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IXPSW

R RNTP

AnyCastRootServer

AdminWAN

Service Delivery & Administrative Network

Example:Anycast Root Service

Looks like a single root server

FilteringZone file xfers

SynchronizationClosest topological

Failover

Service Delivery BoundaryInternet Exchanges

Root Service

Feb 7-8, 2000 NANOG 18 – San Jose

Participants

• MCI, AT&T, Atlantic Media, Bell Atlantic, Level3

• Cable and Wireless, Concentric, TeleGlobe, NetRail

• Blue Mountain Arts, Akamai, Webcash, 1xNet, NorthPoint, Ernst & Young Technology, and others.

Feb 7-8, 2000 NANOG 18 – San Jose

Growth Projections & Plans30+ Global locations Over Next 4 Years

San Jose, Ashburn, Newark today, Chicago, LA, Dallas 2Q’00