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Internet exchange point in France From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
France-IX is a Paris-based Internet exchange point (IXP) founded in June 2010 as a membership organisation. As of 21 July 2021[update] it interconnects more than 496 members,[1] making it the largest IXP in France.
France-IX was initially discussed by Raphael Maunier (then with Neo Telecoms) and Maurice Dean (then working for Google) in 2008 in Dublin. The project of setting up the internet exchange, initially called PhoenIX, was launched in December 2008. Wouter van Hulten (working for Interxion) proposed the creation of a new association named France-IX in May 2009, to unite the various IXP activities in Paris at the time under one organisation. Christian Kaufmann (working for Akamai) and Nicolas Strina (then working for Jaguar Network) soon joined the initiative.[3]
Following the presentation, a survey was sent to the community of internet networks whose results were published during the FRnOG 14 in June 2009. Around that time, the working group got the official financial and logistics support from Jaguar Network, Google, Akamai, Interxion and Neo Telecoms and was renamed France-IX.
The first international presentation of this project was made during RIPE 59 in Lisbon.
France-IX is composed of a non-profit association where each member holds one vote, and a commercial company, 100% owned by the association, in charge of daily operations. When a network subscribes to France-IX services, it becomes a de facto member of the association and holds the right to vote during the general assemblies. There are currently 496 members.
As of July 26, 2021, France-IX has eight board members, (Stéphane Bortzmeyer, Philippe Duby, Christian Kaufmann, Florence Lavroff, Sarah Nataf, Rebecca Stanic, Mark Tinka, Gregoir Villain). France-IX has 28 employees.
As of July 26, 2021, France-IX network has 24 points of presence (PoP).
Services are available through two types of ports and several bandwidth options.
Port | Traffic |
---|---|
10 Gbit/s | |
100 Gbit/s | |
400 Gbit/s |
France-IX offers the following professional services:
France-IX community comes from all around the world. Any organisation which owns an Autonomous System Number (also known as ASN) can be connected to France-IX. The connected members of the internet exchange point have various profiles:
France-IX concluded five interconnections with other internet exchanges to foster the exchange of internet traffic in France and Europe.
In 2012, France-IX rolled out a reseller program and counts seven resellers as of August 1, 2015.[5][6][7]
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