The next RUG (Rezopole User Group) is held on March 31st, 2017 from 9 to 12 am at the Rezopole premises. This edition will be about Software Defined Network (SDN) including an example of its implementation at the Toulouse Internet eXchange Point (TouIX) presented by Remy Lapeyrade.

Rémy Lapeyrade obtained an engineering degree in Networks and Telecom at the UPSSITECH school, Toulouse. He is PhD at the CNRS-LAAS in the framework of the TouSIX project. His research is focused on the scalability, resilience and security improvement of Internet eXchange Points by using the SDN technologies.

Program:

• Breakfast

• Exceptional TouIX SDN migration by Rémy Lapeyrade:

        - Context

        - TouIX IXP transition

        - Deployment

        - Conclusion

• Juniper France Hackathon presentation: facilitator Ronan Bianic (Rezopole)

        - Juniper virtual lab Juniper (vQFX, vMX)

        - Ansible

• Round table:

        - Participant projects' presentation

        - Problems

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Attention: the number of seats is limited!

Please confirm your participation until March 24th.

Rezopole is pleased to invite you to the IXPloration 2 which will be held on Wednesday March 15th, 2017 at the Rezopole premises, starting from 9:30 am.

New monthly meeting, the IXPloration is a LyonIX presentation event, destinated to the organisations interested in Lyon IXP/NAP connection.

Some actors, already connected and wishing to benefit from LyonIX, will also attend these meetings. 

Program:

9.15 – 9.30 am: Reception around a coffee table

9.30 – 11 am: Presentation of LyonIX

                            - Economic and technological advantages

                            - Connection solutions

                            - Questions and answers

11 – 12am: Visit of LyonIX POP

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LyonIX IXPloration is held at the Rezopole premises. For organizational & security reasons we place a limit on the number of participants up to a maximum of 10.

Rezopole has pleasure to find the European IXP community during 2 days in Cracow (Poland).

The 29th Euro-IX forum is hosted by TPIX from 6th-8th of November 2016. 

About the Euro-IX Forum

Euro-IX organizes 2 Fora per year, held each time in a different location in Europe. These meetings have been initiated to bring together all Euro-IX affiliated IXPs & Patrons in one place to discuss relevant issues faced by Internet Exchanges. The Fora include discussions on both technical and managerial topics, presentations by IXP representatives and IXP related vendors, as well as social events.

LyonIX, the Lyon IXP + NAP platform, and LILLIX, the French northern GIX, are now interconnected for the greater benefit of their members.

What am I supposed to do with this interconnection ?

The prefixes of the LILLIX members are now visible by the LyonIX members, and conversely, allowing the implementation of optimized peering connections between the two IXP passing by the LyonIX and LILLIX common network infrastructure.

What am I supposed to do to take advantage of it ?

Nothing, the news are automatically published by LyonIX and LILLIX route-servers.

Who are LILLIX members?

See the list on the LILLIX site.

For any other technical question concerning the Rezopole/LyonIX services, contact the Technical Service.

Peering between the Auvergne - Rhône-Alpes and the Languedoc-Roussilon-Midi-Pyrénées regions becomes even easier thanks the very high speed connection set-up in collaboration by LyonIX, the IXP & NAP of Lyon, and TOUIX, the IXP and Telecommunications Marketplace of Toulouse.

A real information tool and Internet Telecommunications reference for the IT actors of the territory, the updated directory is available here.

Download the PDF version now!

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About RezoLink

This directory identifies our members connected on our IXPs (Operators, DataCenters, ISP, IT services companies, Businesses) as well as our main partners, Public Actors and Associations.

According to Cisco, the annual IP datacenter traffic will globally reach 10.4 Zb in 2019, including 8.6 Zb generated by the only Cloud services.

According to Global Cloud Index of Cisco, the datacenter traffic should globally triple between 2014 and 2019. It would pass from 3.4 Zb in 2014 to 10.4 Zb in 2019. And the traffic generated by the Cloud services should quadruple over the period, passing from 2.1 Zb to 8.6 Zb per year. So, the Cloud services would represent 83 % of the datacenter traffic in 2019.

Find more information here

Roberto di Lallo, Italian computer scientist at Roma Tre University, made a research on the importance of IXPs, Internet eXchange Points and their effects on the latency of networks. IXPs are infrastructures used by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to exchange traffic between their Autonomous Systems (ASes). An IXP allows ISPs to interconnect their ASes directly, i.e. to establish peerings between them, rather than through third-party networks (upstreams). IXPs play a crucial role in the development of the Internet, encouraging ISPs to create a dense network of interconnections at low cost. Some of them have a throughput of many Tbit/sec and are some of the most important building blocks of today’s Internet.

Internet exchange points (IXPs) are infrastructures allowing the ISPs to exchange the traffic between their networks without passing by a third-party network. The historic and technical importance of the IXPs, in terms of network densification, performance and cost reduction, was recently questioned by certain number of major ISPs having decided to leave (de-peering) the IXPs under the pretext of better IP traffic management and improvement in the QoS.

A study conducted by Roberto di Lallo aims to prove that the benefits induced by the IXPs are real in terms of performance and network security. This consisted in using about 150 RIPE probes in Italy and comparing trafic performance passing through two main Italian IXPs, MIX and NaMex, or through third-party network besides IXPs, towards 50 sites considered to be critical (bank, insurance, administration), and the 100 most visited sites in Italy. It was made possible thanks to the collaboration of small local ISPs which left the control of their BGP announcements to Di Lallo's team.

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Alinto is now interconnected to the LyonIX Internet exchange point. The company can, thanks to this interconnection, develop its Internet speed and host services that are closer to their customers at competitive prices.

About Alinto

Alinto is a European pure player of electronic communication technologies that operates an international market. Alinto has more than 2 million users and more than 10 000 messaging domains.

Cloud-ready software company, Alinto is an expert of implementation and operational monitoring of your electronic communication solutions. From the R&D to operation via the support, Alinto accompanies its customers in a quality and proximity approach.

To know more about it: www.alinto.com

To know more about the LyonIX infrastructure, visit the Web site: www.lyonix.net

The Internet Society has launched a news information and collaboration portal for Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) (http://www.ixptoolkit.org/) and a collaboration IXP Toolkit Report .

The IXP Toolkit Portal (web site) provides resources, data, maps and statistics for the IXP community. The site has also an agenda with international internet events and a blog with industry news.

The IXP Toolkit Report (http://www.internetsociety.org/ixptoolkitguide) is a resource for new IXPs and developing IXPs.  The Internet Society is asking for "feedback" on the Report and Portal.  Please send any updates or improvements on the IXP Toolkit Report to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by 15 April.  They will be releasing v.1.0 of the IXP Toolkit Report on May 1.  Please send any suggestions and feedback on the IXP Toolkit Portal (web site) to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Rezopole's contribution

LyonIX has provided its toolbox on the portal and will also updates all its African IXP development and support training dates that the team runs as a partner for the AXIS project.

In addition to its IXP activities, Rezopole also established many services for the Internet community. Some examples: a FTP server, a conferencing service, a files sharing service ... To ensure the best quality of service, Rezopole implemented the border 6 solution Non Stop Internet to optimize its BGP routes. The border 6 probe can promote certain routes to make them faster and more reliable.

The solution performs tests on the entire network, thereby generating an evaluation of performance and connectivity. The data collected is used to optimize the BGP routing based on delay and packet loss to the test destinations or those most used. Meanwhile, reports are edited on the routing decisions and improvements made, allowing teams to detect failures and lack of performance.

This system improves the quality of hosted services on Rezopole servers using criteria not included in BGP.

Read more: www.border6.com

Rezopole has set up an alternative filtering method of its members BGP route advertisements on its Route Servers : RPKI + ROA.

This method enables to check that BGP advertisements of interconnected members are correct and that the given prefix matches the AS that sent it.

Filtering on the RIPE data base

“Before using the RPKI + ROA method, we were only filtering using the RIPE objects from the RIPE data base. Thanks to the two implemented methods we can now do a thorough check of routes that we communicate to our members on our main Cisco Route Server” states Arnaud Fenioux, Technical Manager at Rezopole.