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France-IX and Rezopole are merging

on Thursday, 14 January 2021 Posted in Archives Rezopole

France-IX and Rezopole are merging

By merging with France-IX, Rezopole is entering a new stage in its development. The aim of this project is to capitalize on the financial, human, commercial and technical resources of both entities. This merger proves to be a very good opportunity for the future for both parties.


You can consult the various legal documents below:

 

France-IX Administration
List of members

Rezopole Administration
List of members

   

Rezopole parent company financial statements
Fiscal 2017

Rezopole parent company financial statements
Fiscal 2018

Rezopole parent company financial statements
Fiscal 2019

Intermediate situation
of Rezopole on 30.06.2020

       

Minutes of the board of directors
of Rezopole of 13.10.2020

Minutes of the board of directors
of France-IX of 15.10.2020

       

Absorption Melting Treaty
of Rezopole by France-IX

Draft contribution contract Value Report APA Remuneration Report

 

 

 

 

 

5 minutes chrono !

on Wednesday, 16 December 2020 Posted in Archives Rezopole

5 minutes chrono !

Rezopole's bi-annual satisfaction questionnaire is getting a new look; a more targeted questionnaire for a faster response time. The opinion of each Premium member is essential to enable us to improve our services and quality in order to prepare 2021 under the best auspices.

 

To answer this questionnaire, concerning the connection and/or the services they benefit from at Rezopole, each member uses the link sent by email. This survey usually takes no more than 5 minutes.

And for Christmas, to combine business with pleasure, a superb JBL loudspeaker can be won by drawing lots. Good luck to all of you!

 

 

 

 

The Rezopole User Group #24 by videoconference

on Thursday, 03 December 2020 Posted in Archives Rezopole

The Rezopole User Group #24 by videoconference

Couldn't make it to the RUG on November 27th? Don't worry, Rezopole's technical team offers you a catch-up session on Friday, December 18th.

 

The program remains the same:

  • best practices for IP filtering at the edge routers of a network
  • the implementation and handling of RTBH in the context of an IXP
  • a feedback on the use of a BGP optimization tool based on performance metrics

 

Useful information

  • Schedule from 9:30 am to 12:00 pm
  • Confirm your participation before December 16th
  • The videoconference link will be sent a few days before the event



 

 Register 

 





 

The time of the survey

on Thursday, 19 November 2020 Posted in Archives Rezopole

The time of the survey

The opinion of our members is essential to enable us to improve our services

and our quality in order to always serve them better.

 

This is why we conduct a survey every six months with each Premium member. In order to answer this questionnaire, concerning their connection and/or the services they benefit from at Rezopole, each member uses the link sent by email on November 17th. This survey usually takes no more than 10 minutes.

 

And, finally, to combine business with pleasure, a goodie can be won by drawing lots. Enough to end the year well together.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Press release

on Thursday, 12 November 2020 Posted in Archives Rezopole

Press release

FRANCE-IX MERGES WITH REZOPOLE AND REAFFIRMS ITS POSITION OF LEADING MULTI-SERVICE  INTERCONNECTION PLATFORM IN FRANCE

 

This merger will allow both entities to leverage their mutual areas of expertise in order to bring always

more value-added services to their members.

 

Paris, 14 January 2021 – France-IX, one of the leading IXPs (Internet Exchange Points) in Europe, announced it has completed a merger with Rezopole, the biggest regional Internet Exchange Point in France. This combination is part of France-IX's growth strategy of expanding to national and French speaking territories and strengthening its services portfolio. It will also allow Rezopole to expand further by building on France-IX’s financial, human and technical resources. The combined entity, which will operate under the France-IX name, intends to consolidate its position of leading multi-service interconnection platform in France with a strong positioning on the national territory to deal with international competition.

 

France-IX is the premier provider of Internet traffic exchange services – also called Peering – in France, offering public and private interconnection services through its carrier and data centre neutral exchange points in Paris and Marseille. Within a few years, France-IX managed to federate the key national and international Internet players on its platform and today counts over 400 members. On the other hand, Rezopole has more than 100 members connected in Lyon and the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, and offers a wide range of services beyond peering services.

 

“France-IX and Rezopole are non for profit associations based on member subscription, initially created  to build communities and services around interconnection with the very different players of the Internet  ecosystem” says Christian Kaufmann, President of the France IX board. “This merger is based on a  common DNA and will benefit both parties and all their members. 95% of the France-IX members and 94% of the Rezopole members have indeed massively approved it when they voted at our last General Meeting. This is a new step taken today reflecting our will to continuously develop the Internet community  in France”.

 

Toward an expansion on the national and French-speaking territory

 

France-IX has a deep knowledge of the French Internet industry and intends to share this expertise with  the entire global ecosystem. After having federated a great number of international players, the group indeed wants to focus on the French market and consolidate its French-speaking contents which are key  to its local and international members. The strategic location of Rezopole in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region (Lyon, Grenoble and Annecy) is a first step towards achieving this goal.

 

For its part, Rezopole will be able to rely on France-IX’s expertise and infrastructure, its sales force and its solid financial position, and access the biggest national and international Internet players.

 

In the long term, the new entity will aim to pursue its expansion in strategic cities where the infrastructure already exists, as well as consolidate its presence in the overseas territories and French-speaking countries.

 

A multi-service platform dedicated to its members

 

In order to strenghten its role of leading multi-service interconnection platform in France, the merger will allow France-IX to expand its range of services by leveraging on Rezopole’s portfolio and expertise, which includes hosting, NAP, training, consulting and managed services as well as industry promotion. The  combined entity will intend to bring quality integrated and complementary services to all members, especially toward corporate enterprises and international customers. It will thus be able to best meet the needs of organisations seeking to optimise their costs and Internet connection as part of their digital transformation.

 

Franck Simon, President of France IX Services, says: “Considering our expansion objectives both in terms  of services and geographic coverage, it was today essential for France-IX to take a further step forward.  The merger with Rezopole is perfectly aligned with our growth strategy, which aims to enhance our services offering dedicated to enterprises and expand our territorial footprint while focusing on our real  strength, the French-speaking contents.”

 

Philippe Duby, President of Rezopole, concludes: “We are convinced that this merger is synonymous with  sustainability. It is a logical continuation for Rezopole who will leverage France-IX’s technical expertise to  keep offering its local services to all the members of the new entity, while pursuing its development on the French market.” Philippe Duby stands as a candidate to join the new Board Committee of France-IX whose members will be all elected next January, 29th.

 

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To consult the various legal documents, click here.

 

 

 

 

Online appointment for the Rezopole User Group #23

on Friday, 06 November 2020 Posted in Archives Rezopole

Online appointment for the Rezopole User Group #23

Rezopole's technical team is looking forward to seeing you on Friday 27th November for a virtual Rezopole User Group.

 

On the program :

  • best practices for IP filtering at the edge routers of a network
  • the implementation and handling of RTBH in the context of an IXP
  • a feedback on the use of a BGP optimization tool based on performance metrics

 

 

Useful information

  • Schedule from 9:30 am to 12:00 pm
  • Confirm your participation before November 27th
  • The videoconference link will be sent a few days before the event



 

 Register 

 





 

The IXPloration #27 by videoconference

on Thursday, 05 November 2020 Posted in Archives Rezopole

The IXPloration #27 by videoconference

Rezopole will meet you on November 24th for a morning dedicated to the improvement of BtoB Internet exchanges thanks to LyonIX and GrenobliX infrastructures.

Details will be detailed during this videoconference:
- the IXP part, which improves Internet exchanges between users in a territory, reduces telecom costs, and secures and optimizes the network thanks to the multiple routes offered.
- the NAP part, which provides connected members with direct access to the operators present and their offers. We buy or sell any type of Telecom service with great flexibility.

 

On the agenda

  • General presentation of Rezopole
  • What is an IXP/NAP?
    • How does it work?
    • Economic & technical advantages
  • LyonIX & GrenoblIX infrastructures
    • Rezopole members
    • Offers & services
    • Connection solutions
  • Rezopole Events & Tools
  • Questions & Answers

 

Useful information

  • Schedule from 9:30 to 11:00 a.m.
  • Link of the videoconference sent by email a few days before the event

 

 

 

 Register

 

 

 

 

Online appointment for the IXPloration #26

on Thursday, 30 July 2020 Posted in Archives Rezopole

Online appointment for the IXPloration #26

Rezopole will meet you on September 24th for a videoconference dedicated to the improvement of BtoB Internet exchanges thanks to LyonIX and GrenobliX infrastructures.

Details will be detailed during this videoconference:
- the IXP part, which improves Internet exchanges between users in a territory, reduces telecom costs, and secures and optimizes the network thanks to the multiple routes offered.
- the NAP part, which provides connected members with direct access to the operators present and their offers. We buy or sell any type of Telecom service with great flexibility.

 

On the agenda

  • General presentation of Rezopole
  • What is an IXP/NAP?
    • How does it work?
    • Economic & technical advantages
  • LyonIX & GrenoblIX infrastructures
    • Rezopole members
    • Offers & services
    • Connection solutions
  • Rezopole Events & Tools
  • Questions & Answers

 

Useful information

  • Schedule from 9:30 to 11:00 a.m.
  • Link of the videoconference sent by email a few days before the event

 

 

 

 Register

 

 

 

 

New format for IXPloration #25

on Friday, 19 June 2020 Posted in Archives Rezopole

New format for IXPloration #25

Rezopole will meet you on July 2nd for a videoconference dedicated to the improvement of BtoB Internet exchanges thanks to LyonIX infrastructures.

Details will be detailed during this videoconference:
- the IXP part, which improves Internet exchanges between users in a territory, reduces telecom costs, and secures and optimizes the network thanks to the multiple routes offered.
- the NAP part, which provides connected members with direct access to the operators present and their offers. We buy or sell any type of Telecom service with great flexibility.

 

On the agenda

  • General presentation of Rezopole
  • What is an IXP/NAP?
    • How does it work?
    • Economic & technical advantages
  • Rezopole's infrastructures & members
    • Offers & services
    • Connection solutions
  • Rezopole Events & Tools
  • Questions and Answers

 

Useful information

  • Schedule from 9:30 to 11:00 a.m.
  • Link of the videoconference sent by email a few days before the event

 

 

 

 Register

 

 

 

 

The 2019 activity report is online

on Tuesday, 26 May 2020 Posted in Archives Rezopole

The 2019 activity report is online

 "This text is written in Covid-19 confinement, which shows the enormous impact of the Internet in our daily lives, and its importance in helping us to continue our activities in telework or tele-education.

 

Exchange nodes such as those managed by Rezopole have a very important role in these periods of increased traffic. The first 100 Gbps client was set up on LyonIX at the very beginning of the Covid-19 crisis.

 

Looking back at 2019, the following highlights, detailed in the report, are worth noting:

  • Migration of the core network to a new, latest-generation 100 Gb infrastructure,
  • Securing links (redundancy) and BGP routing,
  • Opening of new POPs related to their potential for new members,
  • Reinforcement of the interconnection with the Swiss IXPs (CIXP & SwissIX),
  • Survey on Telecom needs in the Alps with local players,
  • First 24/7 BGP outsourcing services.

 

The IXP market is transforming towards increased service provision, and Rezopole will continue its transformation in 2020 to adapt to this evolution.

 

Thank you for your interest in our activities, I hope you enjoy reading. »

 

Philippe Duby,

President of the Rezopole Association

 

 

 

 

 Read the report

 

 

 

 

Digital Transition: Developing Local DCs

on Thursday, 07 May 2020 Posted in Archives Rezopole

Digital Transition: Developing Local DCs

The Urban School of Lyon continues its conferences entitled "The Wednesdays of the Anthropocene". This week's theme: the impact of digital technology on regional planning with Cécile Diguet, urban planner, director of the Urban Planning and Territories Department of the Paris Region Institute and Jean-Vincent Bayarri, architect of Information Systems at the Metropolis of Lyon.

As a partner, Rue89Lyon publishes a podcast of these forums. Jean-Vincent Bayarri, also wrote the text below.

 

The intelligent city relies on important digital infrastructures, especially data centers. How are these infrastructures deployed on the territory? What issues are raised by their spatial integration? Constraints or opportunities for an ecological factory of the city? Are digital actors the new protagonists of the urban project?

 

Initially, containment...

Videoconferencing, streaming, telecommuting, e-commerce, online gaming are in this period of confinement even more widely consumed than usual by the French.

Many articles in the press explain how consumption induced on "networks" alone can be problematic, at the risk of "slowing down" or even "paralysing" the Internet.

 

"The networks"

Above all, the Internet is a set of interconnected machines, i.e. multiple routes, managed by a multitude of actors: operators, public or private structures, associations, large companies. The term "network" is actually vague since it is a multitude of interconnected networks. At the end of the chain is a server infrastructure that must meet the high demand observed in this period of containment.

 

While it is true that some networks can sometimes be scarce resources, particularly mobile networks, most are well sized in France to carry the traffic.

So when the website of a hypermarket brand, overwhelmed by the requests of confined consumers, displays a message asking to wait, is it the fault of the "network"? Certainly not.

The problem can often come from the last link in the chain, the "server" carrying the resource and the content consumed. How do you know when and where to align sufficient resources to meet demand?

 

Datacenters

This is the importance of data centers, since they allow multiple servers to be quickly assigned to specific tasks.

And this capability also applies to the datacenters themselves! Just as the Internet is meshed and decentralized, the strategy adopted by companies like Netflix is a very wide distribution of data centers: on several continents, in several cities, and even as close as possible to the user, partly at the ISPs themselves. It is also a common practice in most companies to distribute resources across multiple data centers for reasons of security, redundancy and high availability.

 

Proximity, a technical, economic and strategic asset

Some cities have a considerable asset: a GIX (Global Internet eXchange point), i.e. a local Internet exchange point. In Lyon, this is LyonIX, which is managed by Rezopole. Companies or administrations that wish to do so can connect locally to this GIX and exchange via the Internet "locally".

Thus in the Lyon metropolitan area, a very significant part of Internet traffic is consumed by Google services (Maps in particular). Since Google is present on LyonIX, access is not only instantaneous (very low latency) but also free of charge. The rest of the Internet traffic is sold through the (paying) pipes of a forwarding agent.

 

Beyond purely telecom costs, the logic of economic development is clear: the more Internet infrastructure is present locally, the more investors are attracted to build local datacenters. This rhymes with more jobs, more value created, and an easier digital transition.

The interest is also strategic, since putting your data in the "cloud" means putting it in someone else's datacenters. A varied and local offer of datacenters therefore makes it possible to keep company data on national soil, in better security conditions (RGPD for example), which represents a certain digital sovereignty.

 

Digital transition, ecological?

"To save the planet, print this message only if necessary". This maxim could almost sum up the digital transition issue by itself.

Videoconferencing, the development of mobile digital counter applications, these are just a few examples of very concrete applications - made possible by the presence of these infrastructures, these networks, these data centres in the city - which also facilitate the ecological transition.The data centres themselves are working on this with the reduction of the energy efficiency factor or the reuse of heat produced by the district heating of the surrounding area, or even a 100% operation on renewable energies.

 

The digital revolution has given data centers a now multiple importance (economic, social, ecological) in the city as well as other essential structures. A central link in regional planning and the digital and ecological transitions, which are far from being in opposition, are perfectly complementary.

 

 

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Source : Rue89Lyon

 

 

 

 

Did you say backbone?

on Monday, 06 April 2020 Posted in Archives Rezopole

Did you say backbone?

The Internet is made up of access links that route traffic to high-bandwidth routers and accompany the traffic from its source to its destination using the best available path.

In order to ensure that Internet traffic can be routed anywhere in the world, these individual high-speed fibre optic networks must be interconnected. This interconnection is therefore called backbone or Internet backbone interconnection. Each network is owned by Internet operators, usually private, Tier 1 operators whose networks are interconnected.

 

These Tier 1 Internet operators create a single global network by bundling their long-distance networks, allowing each of them to access the entire Internet routing table. This allows them to efficiently route traffic to its destination through a succession of local, tier 2 and tier 3 providers. These backbone operators all use the same shared network protocol: TCP (Transmission Control Protocol)/IP (Internet Protocol).

 

The networks of these Tier 1 operators are connected at the IXP (Internet Exchange Point) level. These exchange nodes, being equipped with high-speed switches and routers, allow traffic to be routed between peers (participants connected to the exchange node using the BGP protocol to make traffic). These interconnection points are often owned by third parties, sometimes on a non-profit basis, thus facilitating the unification of the backbone.

Tier 1 operators participating in the IXP contribute to their financing, but do not charge each other for carrying the traffic of other Tier 1 operators. This type of relationship is known as "peering" or "peering without agreement". Peering avoids possible financial disputes that could impact Internet performance.

 

There are smaller Tier 2 (Tier 2) and Tier 3 (Tier 3) operators. Tier 3 operators allow businesses and consumers to access the Internet. As these Tier 3 operators do not have their own access to the Internet backbone, they contract with Tier 2 or regional ISPs that have their own networks to carry traffic to a limited geographical area.

As access does not concern all devices connected to the Internet, the second-tier providers in turn contract with the first-tier providers to have access to the global backbone.

In summary, traffic originating from a computer on one side of the globe can connect to a connected computer on the other side of the globe by sending the traffic to a Tier 3 operator. This operator routes the traffic to a Tier 2 operator who redirects it to a Tier 1 backbone operator. The latter then redirects it to the appropriate Tier 2 operator. The operator itself sends this traffic to a Tier 3 operator who delivers the traffic to the destination computer.

 

 

 

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Source : Le Monde Informatique

 

 

 

 

Register for IXPloration #25!

on Wednesday, 26 February 2020 Posted in Archives Rezopole

Register for IXPloration #25!

Rezopole is pleased to invite you on Thursday, March 19th to the next IXPloration organized in its offices at 16 rue de la Thibaudière, 69007 Lyon.

This completely free event will be an opportunity for you to discover LyonIX, the IXP / NAP of Lyon.

Thus will be detailed during this morning:
- the IXP part, which improves Internet exchanges between users in a territory, reduces telecom costs, and secures and optimizes the network thanks to the multiple routes offered.
- the NAP part, which provides connected members with direct access to the operators present and their offers. We buy or sell any type of Telecom service with great flexibility.

 

On the agenda

9h00 – 9h30 : Welcome over a coffee

9h30 – 10h30 : Presentation of LyonIX :

                         - Economic and technical advantages

                         - Connection solutions

                         - Questions and Answers

10h30 – 11h30 : Visit to a LyonIX Point of Presence

 

 

 Register

 

 

 

 

Register for IXPloration #24!

on Monday, 13 January 2020 Posted in Archives Rezopole

Register for IXPloration #24!

Rezopole is pleased to invite you on Thursday, January 30th to the next IXPloration organized in its offices at 16 rue de la Thibaudière, 69007 Lyon.

This completely free event will be an opportunity for you to discover LyonIX, the IXP / NAP of Lyon.

Thus will be detailed during this morning:
- the IXP part, which improves Internet exchanges between users in a territory, reduces telecom costs, and secures and optimizes the network thanks to the multiple routes offered.
- the NAP part, which provides connected members with direct access to the operators present and their offers. We buy or sell any type of Telecom service with great flexibility.

 

On the agenda

9h00 – 9h30 : Welcome over a coffee

9h30 – 10h30 : Presentation of LyonIX :

                         - Economic and technical advantages

                         - Connection solutions

                         - Questions and Answers

10h30 – 11h30 : Visit to a LyonIX Point of Presence

 

 

 Register

 

 

 

 

Register for IXPloration #24!

on Thursday, 21 November 2019 Posted in Archives Rezopole

Register for IXPloration #24!

Rezopole is pleased to invite you on Thursday, December 12th to the next IXPloration organized in its offices at 16 rue de la Thibaudière, 69007 Lyon.

This completely free event will be an opportunity for you to discover LyonIX, the IXP / NAP of Lyon.

Thus will be detailed during this morning:
- the IXP part, which improves Internet exchanges between users in a territory, reduces telecom costs, and secures and optimizes the network thanks to the multiple routes offered.
- the NAP part, which provides connected members with direct access to the operators present and their offers. We buy or sell any type of Telecom service with great flexibility.

 

On the agenda

9h00 – 9h30 : Welcome over a coffee

9h30 – 10h30 : Presentation of LyonIX :

                         - Economic and technical advantages

                         - Connection solutions

                         - Questions and Answers

10h30 – 11h30 : Visit to a LyonIX Point of Presence

 

 

 Register

 

 

 

 

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