Over the last 10 years, Internet exchange points have witnessed a considerable number of changes: technological change, an increase in the number of connected members, diversification of membership types, etc. The number of Internet exchange points has also increased. All these developments have allowed IXPs to become better known, to encourage local traffic and thus to become important infrastructures for network service providers.

However, this popularity also leads to problems such as poor router configuration by new members. "Such configurations can cause unwanted broadcasts, false route announcements, unicast flooding and bandwidth theft. All this can ultimately impact all members connected to an IX," explains Masataka Mawatari of Japan Internet Exchange Co. Ltd.

For this reason, a group of Japanese IXP operators, BBIX, JPIX, JPNAP, and KDDI worked together to update the Good Business Practices document. Originally developed by the JANOG community about ten years ago, this document describes for an AS operator the recommended settings of an IXP connection router.

Find the complete document in this article by Robbie Mitchell of July 31th on the APNIC blog.

Source: APNIC.

A major new content provider connected to Rezopole's infrastructures!

Akamai announces via its AS20940 a direct path to its local Lyon cache.

All content is now available via LyonIX route servers.

About Akamai

The world’s largest and most trusted cloud delivery platform.

If you've ever shopped online, downloaded music, watched a web video or connected to work remotely, you've used Akamai's cloud delivery platform. Top brands globally rely on Akamai to help them deliver the world's best and most secure digital experiences on any device, anywhere. 

Akamai is the world’s largest and most trusted cloud delivery platform, delivering 95 exabytes of data a year across billions of devices. With the broadest array of best-in-class cloud delivery products and services, including superior web and mobile performance, cloud security, enterprise access, and video delivery solutions – all underpinned by exceptional customer service and 24/7 monitoring – businesses count on our people and technology to support them every step of the way.

Read more on Akamai's website.

[French article]

Contrairement à ce que beaucoup imaginent, Internet ne flotte pas dans l‘air. Il existe grâce à des câbles, datacenters et IXP contrôlés par des entreprises. Francesca Musiani, chargée de recherches au CNRS, explique pourquoi il est nécessaire de comprendre ces rouages afin d’être un internaute avisé.

La spécialiste des architectures de l’Internet nous présente dans une vidéo diffusée par Treize Minutes les dessous d’un monde encore trop méconnu. Les infrastructures réseaux font en sorte que leur fonctionnement reste discret, si bien que l’on ne prend conscience de leur existence qu’au moment où Internet atteint ses limites, qui sont bel et bien matérielles. Pourtant, il est primordial de mieux conceptualiser cet outil du quotidien, qui est bien plus tentaculaire qu’il n’y paraît.

Voir la vidéo

En effet, elle soulève le fait que les diverses infrastructures Internet sont sous le contrôle d’entreprises qui poursuivent leur intérêt propre. Un fait qu’il faut bien comprendre, notamment en cette période où la protection des données personnelles et la manipulation de l’information sont au cœur de tous les débats.

Dans un article de Libération rédigé par Amaelle Guiton, Francesca aborde le sujet du projet de loi sur la lutte contre les « fake news ». Pour elle, l’essentiel du problème ne réside pas dans l’émetteur de ces fausses informations, mais dans le fonctionnement-même des grandes plateformes sur lesquelles elles sont diffusées.

Leur modèle économique leur permet de propager des informations plus rapidement que tous les autres supports, qu’elles soient réelles ou infondées. Ainsi, une solution serait de rendre plus transparente l’activité de ces émetteurs de contenu. Par l’intervention d’entités tierces ciblant l’origine systémique du problème, Francesca espère pouvoir le résoudre sans bouleverser tout le fonctionnement des grandes plateformes. De plus, elle estime que le monopole de l’information en ligne par certaines entreprises est aussi une des sources du problème, qui pourrait être palliée par l’émergence de nouveaux acteurs. Des pistes de solutions intéressantes à découvrir dans cet article.

Lire l'article

Sources : Treize Minutes, Libération, Amaelle Guiton.

Winning return to Isère! A great success for this Telenco Networks sponsored event! Thanks to all for this great evening between IT and Telecom experts. We're looking forward to seeing you at a future event in Grenoble. All the photos available here.

Rezopole and Distriwan are pleased to invite you to the 50th edition of the Aperezo which will take place on Wednesday 27th June 2018 at Rooftop 52 in Lyon, from 18h30.

COMPULSORY REGISTRATION

The configuration of the place being exceptional, the capacity is limited to a maximum of 100 people.

For organizational and security reasons, any person who does not have a personal registration confirmation* will be refused access to our event.

* Confirmation by name sent by e-mail at a later date.

By registering, you agree, if you appear on the photos taken during the event, that they be published on our site, social networks and the site of our partner.

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Please limit the number of professionals per company to 3.

À propos de notre sponsor

Let's build tomorrow's successes today!

For more than 15 years, our priority has been to guarantee to all our partners an irreproachable quality of service and the most attractive prices on the market.

Specialized in the sale of network architectures, unified communications solutions, security, storage & video surveillance for IT professionals, our teams are committed to your side.

Our assets to accompany all your projects? Dynamism, reactivity and proximity!

Find the directory listing the players interconnected on our IXPs and the network and telecom experts in the region. We're welcoming back the Gold members, also present in this edition. Available free of charge in paper version on request and on the website in PDF format.

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A paper version is distributed in 2000 copies by mail or at our events. If you wish to have the paper version, please contact us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Rezopole awaits you on Thursday 28th, June in its premises for the next IXPloration.

Entirely free, this monthly meeting is a presentation of LyonIX intended for structures interested by a connection on the IXP/NAP of Lyon. The connected members, who would like to enjoy LyonIX better, are also cordially invited.

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The number of participants is limited to 10 people.

Program:

9:00 – 9:30 am: Reception with some coffee

9:30 – 11:00 am: Presentation of LyonIX

                         - Economic and technological advantages

                         - Connection solutions

                         - Questions and answers

 11:00 am – 12:00 pm : Visit of LyonIX Point of Presence

This completely free event allows you to discover the many advantages, for your structure, of being connected to the IXP/NAP of Lyon.

See you on June 28th, 2018 at Rezopole's premises

(73 rue du Général Mangin, 38000 Grenoble).

More details on this morning here.

 

Registration opens soon!

See you on October 09th and 10th! During these two days, you will gradually and completely approach the different aspects of BGP (peering and the use of Route Server). On the 1st day already, you set up your first session. The workshop also explains techniques for announcing and filtering networks in both IPv4 and IPv6. The training covers the operation and configuration of the BGP protocol on Bird, Cisco, Mikrotik, Quagga equipments. The BGP routing protocol is required to interconnect on an IXP.

Price: 1000 € (Ex-VAT) per attendee during 2 days (lunch included)!

This training may be covered by your OPCA (Rezopole activity number: 84691581469).

Do you want to participate? Just send us an email.

The registration closing date is on October 02nd, 2018.

Program

Learn more

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Rezopole awaits you on Thursday 7th, June from 9:30 am in Eolas's datacenter for the next IXPloration.

Entirely free, this monthly meeting is a presentation of GrenoblIX intended for structures interested by a connection on the IXP/NAP of Grenoble. The connected members, who would like to better enjoy GrenoblIX, are also cordially invited.

Please bring a valid ID, without which you will not be able to attend the event.

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The number of participants is limited to 12 people.

Program:

9:00 – 9:30 am: Reception with a cup of coffee

9:30 – 11:00 am: Presentation of GrenoblIX

                         - Economic and technological advantages

                         - Connection solutions

                         - Questions and answers

 11:00 am – 12:00 pm : Visit of Eolas's datacenter

Rezopole and Telenco are pleased to invite you to the 49th edition of the Aperezo which will take place on
Wednesday 6th June 2018 at the Upper Place restaurant, starting at 6:30 pm.

Warning: the number of places being limited, registration is MANDATORY.
For organisational and security reasons, any person who does not have their personal registration confirmation * will be refused access to our Aperezo.

By registering, you accept that, if you appear on the pictures taken during the event, they will be uploaded on our website, social networks and our partner's website.

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* Confirmation by name sent by e-mail at a later date.

About our sponsor

Telenco networks, leader on the market of fixing and connection accessories for copper and optical cables since 1999, extends its expertise to IT networks and data centers. The company designs and manufactures standardised or tailor-made solutions that meet customers' needs and their specific constraints. The products are manufactured and assembled in Moirans (France-38), Porto and Pombal (Portugal).

Telenco networks' IT and data center offer is a unique service on the market: 100% configurable, premium quality solutions delivered within 4 days.

This completely free event allows you to discover the many advantages, for your structure, of being connected to the IXP/NAP of Lyon.

See you on June 7th, 2018 at the Eolas Hebergement's Datacenter

(73 rue du Général Mangin, 38000 Grenoble).

More details on this morning here.

 

Registration opens soon!

Rezopole and Telenco will meet in a few weeks for the first Grenoble Aperezo since summer 2014!

Join us at the Upper Place restaurant to meet the region's leading IT and Telecom players and (re)discover our sponsor's expertise in networks and datacenters.

More information about this event very soon.

There was a lot of bustle at the Burger&Wine Confluence! On April 25th, 2018 Jaguar Network and Rezopole organised the 48th edition of the Aperezo theme. Once again, the event was sold out and a huge success. Relive a few moments of this evening dedicated to IT and Telecom experts here...

Photographer : Alina Petrescu / AP Moments

Thanks to all participants!

Rezopole awaits you on Thursday 17th, May from 9:30 am in its offices for the next IXPloration.

Entirely free, this monthly meeting is a presentation of LyonIX intended for structures interested by a connection on the IXP/NAP of Lyon. The connected members, who would like to better enjoy LyonIX, are also cordially invited.

   I register  

The number of participants is limited to 10 people.

Program:

9:00 – 9:30 am: Reception around a coffee

9:30 – 11:00 am: Presentation of LyonIX

                         - Economic and technological advantages

                         - Connection solutions

                         - Questions and answers

 11:00 am – 12:00 pm : Visit of LyonIX Point of Presence

Crédits photos : DCforDATA