Re: [NLNOG] (Weer) een nieuwe IX in Nederland
We have AMSIX, NLIX and a few other smaller fragmented exchanges already that span multiple larger+smaller datacenters and are carrier/vendor-neutral (more or less, let's not get into that ;-). Thus I'm a bit doubtful on the success of a 'local' datacenter IX that's vendor specific in a small country like NL. In the US this makes more sense, given that everyone is at pretty much the same large hubs and there's not that many mature alternatives with a decent userbase. Competition is good, but given the maturity of some existing exchanges here and pretty much every AS being on one or multiple exchanges as-is (pun not intended), it might be a hard sell to get people on the Equinix specific ones as well. I'm not seeing any real added value on launching these here unless I'm missing a big incentive to do so (i.e. free IX connectivity with your Cloud Exchange port or vice versa?) Jeroen Wunnink Integration Engineering Manager www.gtt.net <http://www.gtt.net/> On 24/04/2018, 18:55, "NLNOG on behalf of Arnold Nipper" <nlnog-bounces@nlnog.net on behalf of arnold@nipper.de> wrote: [ Sorry for switching to Enlish, but my Dutch is to bad ] On 24.04.2018 13:08, niels=nlnog@bakker.net wrote: > * job@instituut.net (Job Snijders) [Tue 24 Apr 2018, 12:41 CEST]: >> Er is (alweer) een nieuwe IX in Nederland, sommigen zagen deze al van >> verre aankomen: >> >> >> https://url.emailprotection.link/?a2CpwB7v-YuNg3Hr3KRdFPHjkSLCheU7rsmqNfVTOT... >> >> >> Wat is de impact op NL-IX, AMS-IX, SPEED-IX & Asteroid dat nu een >> datacenter naast crossconnects, power en ruimte, ook IX diensten bied? >> >> Profiteren wij als operators van meer competitie in deze markt, of zal >> dit leiden tot minder competitie? Hoe erg is fragmentatie? > > Wat is het punt van een Internet exchange waar je alleen kan peeren met > andere partijen in hetzelfde datacenter? Dat kan je dan ook direct > doen. AMS-IX biedt operators juist vrijheid van datacenterkeuze. > According to Asteroid this was/is the real intention of an IX. YMMV and mine also does ;-) Competition is always good. However where I could see an issue is when DC operators also jump the bandwagon. From a network pov a good choice of IXes is always good as they don't have to put all their eggs in one basket. Let's see how this all works out. Groeten, Arnold -- Arnold Nipper email: arnold@nipper.de mobile: +49 172 2650958
Jeroen Wunnink schreef op 2018-04-25 11:45:
We have AMSIX, NLIX and a few other smaller fragmented exchanges already that span multiple larger+smaller datacenters and are carrier/vendor-neutral (more or less, let's not get into that ;-). Thus I'm a bit doubtful on the success of a 'local' datacenter IX that's vendor specific in a small country like NL.
In the US this makes more sense, given that everyone is at pretty much the same large hubs and there's not that many mature alternatives with a decent userbase. Competition is good, but given the maturity of some existing exchanges here and pretty much every AS being on one or multiple exchanges as-is (pun not intended), it might be a hard sell to get people on the Equinix specific ones as well.
I'm not seeing any real added value on launching these here unless I'm missing a big incentive to do so (i.e. free IX connectivity with your Cloud Exchange port or vice versa?)
I agree that I also do not see much if any value purely from the "Exchange" point of view - the biggest value of an Exchange is basically the number of suitable peers present . So I doubt many people will want to _go_ there primarily to connect to the iX . However, if you are _already_ present in this Datacenter and wish to peer with someone who is also present, using the 'in house iX' could be a nice and convenient service from the datacenter operator . Depending on in-house iX pricing, traffic volumes, resiliency wishes in your design, and (port)prices of your equipment and that of your peers the in-house iX may well be preferable to private peering , or both peers backhauling to the nearest external exchange . If the DC operator already has a sufficiently large network design/operations team, the marginal cost of operating an 'in-DC exchange service' should be quite low , and imo then it can be a nice value add [not unique selling point] for their customers. Not to mention the marketing value , as this thread shows :-) Boudewijn
Jeroen Wunnink Integration Engineering Manager
www.gtt.net <http://www.gtt.net/>
On 24/04/2018, 18:55, "NLNOG on behalf of Arnold Nipper" <nlnog-bounces@nlnog.net on behalf of arnold@nipper.de> wrote:
[ Sorry for switching to Enlish, but my Dutch is to bad ]
On 24.04.2018 13:08, niels=nlnog@bakker.net wrote: > * job@instituut.net (Job Snijders) [Tue 24 Apr 2018, 12:41 CEST]: >> Er is (alweer) een nieuwe IX in Nederland, sommigen zagen deze al van >> verre aankomen: >> >> >> https://url.emailprotection.link/?a2CpwB7v-YuNg3Hr3KRdFPHjkSLCheU7rsmqNfVTOT... >> >> >> Wat is de impact op NL-IX, AMS-IX, SPEED-IX & Asteroid dat nu een >> datacenter naast crossconnects, power en ruimte, ook IX diensten bied? >> >> Profiteren wij als operators van meer competitie in deze markt, of zal >> dit leiden tot minder competitie? Hoe erg is fragmentatie? > > Wat is het punt van een Internet exchange waar je alleen kan peeren met > andere partijen in hetzelfde datacenter? Dat kan je dan ook direct > doen. AMS-IX biedt operators juist vrijheid van datacenterkeuze. >
According to Asteroid this was/is the real intention of an IX. YMMV and mine also does ;-)
Competition is always good. However where I could see an issue is when DC operators also jump the bandwagon.
From a network pov a good choice of IXes is always good as they don't have to put all their eggs in one basket.
Let's see how this all works out.
Groeten, Arnold -- Arnold Nipper email: arnold@nipper.de mobile: +49 172 2650958
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On 25.04.2018 11:45, Jeroen Wunnink wrote:
We have AMSIX, NLIX and a few other smaller fragmented exchanges already that span multiple larger+smaller datacenters and are carrier/vendor-neutral (more or less, let's not get into that ;-). Thus I'm a bit doubtful on the success of a 'local' datacenter IX that's vendor specific in a small country like NL.
In the US this makes more sense, given that everyone is at pretty much the same large hubs and there's not that many mature alternatives with a decent userbase. Competition is good, but given the maturity of some existing exchanges here and pretty much every AS being on one or multiple exchanges as-is (pun not intended), it might be a hard sell to get people on the Equinix specific ones as well.
I'm not seeing any real added value on launching these here unless I'm missing a big incentive to do so (i.e. free IX connectivity with your Cloud Exchange port or vice versa?)
From a (in this case the) DC pov: to have the same offering across all DC worldwide. Generally, it's way cheape to operate a "local" IX only. Hence a local IX should be able to offer lower pricing. From a customer pov: in case you need more capacity, simply buy the additional capacity from the "local" IX. Should save money and increases resiliency. Otoh this definitely will cause headache to the "distributed" IXes as they might feel more price pressure. And I might also seem a bit unfair. Most of the IXes invested heavily in building the interconnection community. Launching a "local" IX now is some sort of cherry picking. But life is not always fair. Just my private .02€ Arnold
Jeroen Wunnink Integration Engineering Manager
www.gtt.net <http://www.gtt.net/>
On 24/04/2018, 18:55, "NLNOG on behalf of Arnold Nipper" <nlnog-bounces@nlnog.net on behalf of arnold@nipper.de> wrote:
[ Sorry for switching to Enlish, but my Dutch is to bad ]
On 24.04.2018 13:08, niels=nlnog@bakker.net wrote: > * job@instituut.net (Job Snijders) [Tue 24 Apr 2018, 12:41 CEST]: >> Er is (alweer) een nieuwe IX in Nederland, sommigen zagen deze al van >> verre aankomen: >> >> >> https://url.emailprotection.link/?a2CpwB7v-YuNg3Hr3KRdFPHjkSLCheU7rsmqNfVTOT... >> >> >> Wat is de impact op NL-IX, AMS-IX, SPEED-IX & Asteroid dat nu een >> datacenter naast crossconnects, power en ruimte, ook IX diensten bied? >> >> Profiteren wij als operators van meer competitie in deze markt, of zal >> dit leiden tot minder competitie? Hoe erg is fragmentatie? > > Wat is het punt van een Internet exchange waar je alleen kan peeren met > andere partijen in hetzelfde datacenter? Dat kan je dan ook direct > doen. AMS-IX biedt operators juist vrijheid van datacenterkeuze. >
According to Asteroid this was/is the real intention of an IX. YMMV and mine also does ;-)
Competition is always good. However where I could see an issue is when DC operators also jump the bandwagon.
From a network pov a good choice of IXes is always good as they don't have to put all their eggs in one basket.
Let's see how this all works out.
Groeten, Arnold -- Arnold Nipper email: arnold@nipper.de mobile: +49 172 2650958
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