Major asia pacific public exchange points
What are the, or are there any, major international public exchange points in the Asia-Pacific region? I know about the wwww.ep.net web page listing lots of exchange points. For example, an exchange point with at least two multi-regional/multi-continent ISPs. Europe has the LINX, AMS-IX, dGIX, etc.
What are the, or are there any, major international public exchange points in the Asia-Pacific region? I know about the wwww.ep.net web page listing lots of exchange points. For example, an exchange point with at least two multi-regional/multi-continent ISPs. Europe has the LINX, AMS-IX, dGIX, etc.
Not that I'd know, but I'd put a reasonable wager on HKIX and STIX for now. --bill
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999 bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote:
What are the, or are there any, major international public exchange points in the Asia-Pacific region? I know about the wwww.ep.net web page listing lots of exchange points. For example, an exchange point with at least two multi-regional/multi-continent ISPs. Europe has the LINX, AMS-IX, dGIX, etc.
Not that I'd know, but I'd put a reasonable wager on HKIX and STIX for now.
I think there's also one in Seoul called KIX as well, but I'm not entirely sure.
--bill
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:""William F. Maton" <wmaton@ryouko.dgim.crc.ca>" wrote : at Tue, 26 Oct 1999 19:46:11 -0400 (EDT) ..... : :| :| On Tue, 26 Oct 1999 bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: :| :| > > What are the, or are there any, major international public exchange :| > > points in the Asia-Pacific region? I know about the wwww.ep.net web :| > > page listing lots of exchange points. For example, an exchange :| > > point with at least two multi-regional/multi-continent ISPs. Europe :| > > has the LINX, AMS-IX, dGIX, etc. :| > :| > Not that I'd know, but I'd put a reasonable wager on HKIX :| > and STIX for now. :| :| I think there's also one in Seoul called KIX as well, but I'm not entirely :| sure. Yes, KIX is in Seoul but I think it is domestic IX. In Japan as well there is no IXes which can be called international one. I'm not sure HKIX and/or STIX is int'l one, at least I don't know a Japanese ISP which is connected to them. Whet is the Int'l IX for AP region? I think the answer for it is still MAEs, NAPs,,, IXes in US, at least for Japan. ----- MAEMURA Akinori Network Engineer, C&C Internet Service mesh, NEC Corporation, JAPAN maem@mesh.ad.jp, maemura@mms.mt.nec.co.jp
:| I think there's also one in Seoul called KIX as well, but I'm not entirely :| sure.
Yes, KIX is in Seoul but I think it is domestic IX. In Japan as well there is no IXes which can be called international one.
As I understand, KIX is mostly domestic Korea. Japan has NSPIX3 and JPIX. There is enough international capacity to house a root server there. :) And based on what I have been told, both HKIX and STIX can be called international. There is a common error in assuming international = US domestic. This is false. Both STIX & HKIX have interconnections to ISPs in many other nations but not quite the connectivity back to the US.
Bill, Thanks for the reply, :"bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com" wrote : at Tue, 26 Oct 1999 20:21:35 -0700 (PDT) ..... : :| > :| I think there's also one in Seoul called KIX as well, but I'm not entirely :| > :| sure. :| > :| > Yes, KIX is in Seoul but I think it is domestic IX. In :| > Japan as well there is no IXes which can be called :| > international one. :| :| As I understand, KIX is mostly domestic Korea. Yes. :| Japan has NSPIX3 and JPIX. There is enough :| international capacity to house a root server :| there. :) :| Umm,,, To be correct, Nationwide IXes in Japan are NSPIXP2, NSPIXP3, JPIX. NSPIXP3 is located in Osaka. Yes, M.root-servers.net is on NSPIXP2 and donated transit through NSPIXP2 by some ISPs. It may be called int'l capacity. :-) :| And based on what I have been told, both HKIX and :| STIX can be called international. There is a :| common error in assuming international = US domestic. :| :| This is false. :| Thanks for pointing out. "international" means just the multi-nationality of participant ISPs, right? :| Both STIX & HKIX have interconnections to ISPs in :| many other nations but not quite the connectivity back :| to the US. :| I see. ----- MAEMURA Akinori Network Engineer, C&C Internet Service mesh, NEC Corporation, JAPAN maem@mesh.ad.jp, maemura@mms.mt.nec.co.jp
Sorry to sound nasty in some of the following, but every answer to date has been so wrong, or wrong-headed. Note that I am not in any way unbiased here. I built and operate L2IX, mentioned below, and operate the largest ISP (2 million dialup, 8000 leased lines, 85% of colo content, US $200 million 1999 revenue) in Korea (and, perhaps, the largest in Asia-Pacific). Of course any exchange in Korea will be primarily a "domestic" exchange. WTF else could it be? That is where the traffic is. Since there is such a huge disparity between the cost of domestic connectivity and international connectivity, it makes sense for domestic players to exchange traffic amongst their domestic networks. Also, since Korea is a unique language country, the overwhelming majority of the traffic is domestic. Only about 10% of my traffic is exchanged with the US. There are two foreign ISPs active in Korea, PSINet (which bought the Korean ISP INET last year) and AUNet. PSINet has its own international connectivity, and AUNet buys theirs from Korea domestic resellers. Neither of those players peers their international networks in Seoul, AUNet because it is impossible given their connectivity (they have no direct connectivity to other AUNet sites in Asia), and PSINet due to their US centric policy. Korea Telecom has their own domestic exchange service, but it operates at Layer 3 only, and any exchange between ISPs sees the KT AS hop in the path. This link is used by domestic ISPs primarily for connection to KT, not to each other. The only layer 2 exchange points in Korea are KINX and L2IX. KINX was formed by an assiciation of smaller ISPs, led by PSINet. The really large players (Dacom and KT) do not participate. The non commercial networks also have restrictions on participating. The exchange is located withing the computing center of the National Computerization Agency, and is operated by NCA. This, along with some of the association policies, creates concerns about the scalibility of the exchange. Current total traffic is ~400 Mbps. Dacom's L2IX is the largest (highest number of particiapnts, largest traffic exchanged) NAP, with most Korean ISPs participating. The total traffic throughput is now more than 2.0 Gbps. While KT does not participate directly, Dacom provides domestic transit to KT (via 445 Mbps direct private peering), and the non-commercial networks, at the exchange. The exchange is located in Dacom's main facility, but early next year will move to the Korea Internet Data Center (KIDC), a new 270,000 ft^2 (the size is not a typo) carrier neutral colocation facility which we have created in Seoul. International players are entirely welcome at KIDC/L2IX. Peering policies are entirely bilateal matters, left to direct negotiation between the participants. To peer with Dacom at this exchange, I require that the international participant peer its entire network, as I do. Now, saying that JPIX, NSPIXP2, STIX or HKIX are "international" exchanges, and KINX or L2IX are not, is misleading. STIX is international only in the sense that Singapore Telecom transits its international peering connections to the Singapore domestic ISPs which connect to STIX. JPIX and NSPIXP2 have some non-Japan participants, but they in general peer only their Japan domestic traffic. HKIX, as an academically controlled exchange, has serious scaling issues, and a multilateral peering requirement which is causing increasing trouble. Though UUNET participates there, what traffic do they exchange? Certainly not 701. How about their OzEmail subsidiary? One needs to be very, very careful when characterizing the nature of exchanges, since there are many different parameters of operation for those who operate outside of the US, and currently pay the full cost of connecting to the US. Peering policies at thesed exchanges might have a significant effect on US traffic, particularly in English-centric, small markets like Singapore and Hong Kong, where the majority of the traffic is international. US based Internet players, in general, pay nothing for international connectivity, and are very cautious to not change this, even when they do participate in some low level at an "international" exchange. There are only a couple of examples of US ISPs (AboveNet and Concentric, that I know of), which peer their entire network at some exchange, mostly LINX. Most others (who even have an international presence) separate their networks in US, Europe, and Asia portions, and many add country specific breakdown. Only in the US do they peer the entire network. Elsewhere, it is always a subset, with the local ISP still paying the costs of international trasit to the US customers of the big ISP. IMNSHO, these local ISPs are fools to peer with big US ISPs under these terms. Additionally, local exchanges tend to be loaded with local competitive issues. Local ISPs see their major competitors as other local ISPs, and thus use peering policy and capacity to engineer competitive and/or political policy. This should be more than familiar to all of the US based readers of NANOG. -jem John Milburn jem@xpat.com, jem@bora.net Managing Director Internet Technology Division Cell +82 19-220-7035 Tel +82 22-220-7035 Dacom Corporation, Seoul, Korea Fax +82 22-220-7429 bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com writes:
:| I think there's also one in Seoul called KIX as well, but I'm not entirely :| sure.
Yes, KIX is in Seoul but I think it is domestic IX. In Japan as well there is no IXes which can be called international one.
As I understand, KIX is mostly domestic Korea. Japan has NSPIX3 and JPIX. There is enough international capacity to house a root server there. :)
And based on what I have been told, both HKIX and STIX can be called international. There is a common error in assuming international = US domestic.
This is false.
Both STIX & HKIX have interconnections to ISPs in many other nations but not quite the connectivity back to the US.
The only layer 2 exchange points in Korea are KINX and L2IX. KINX was formed by an assiciation of smaller ISPs, led by PSINet.
-jem
John Milburn jem@xpat.com, jem@bora.net Managing Director Internet Technology Division Cell +82 19-220-7035 Tel +82 22-220-7035 Dacom Corporation, Seoul, Korea Fax +82 22-220-7429
bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com writes:
So give me URLs. How can I tell a balanced story when I don't even know they exist! --bill
bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com writes:
The only layer 2 exchange points in Korea are KINX and L2IX. KINX was formed by an assiciation of smaller ISPs, led by PSINet.
So give me URLs. How can I tell a balanced story when I don't even know they exist!
The first thing would be to invite someone other than the same tired old academics from Korea to speak about the status of the Korean Internet at international gatherings. :-) Korea Telecom Layer 3 exchange: http://www.kix.net/ Dacom Layer 2 exchange: http://www.dacomix.net/ KINX Layer 2 exchange: http://www.kinx.net/ None of these pages is particularly informative. The KT and KINX pages are in Korean only. The English version of Dacom's page is meager. -jem
there are small regional ones in australia...but no real unified public exchange points... id sugguest andrew khoo (andrew@aussie.net) would be a good person to contact regarding the asia pac region On 26 Oct 1999, Sean Donelan wrote: -> -> -> What are the, or are there any, major international public exchange -> points in the Asia-Pacific region? I know about the wwww.ep.net web -> page listing lots of exchange points. For example, an exchange -> point with at least two multi-regional/multi-continent ISPs. Europe -> has the LINX, AMS-IX, dGIX, etc. -> -> -> -- Marc Teichtahl Manager, IP Operations Versatel Telecom NASDAQ: VRSA AEX: VERSA US Cell: 1 650 814 1132 Dutch Cell: 31 6 2279 4706
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 03:34:31PM -0700, Sean Donelan wrote:
What are the, or are there any, major international public exchange points in the Asia-Pacific region? I know about the wwww.ep.net web page listing lots of exchange points. For example, an exchange point with at least two multi-regional/multi-continent ISPs. Europe has the LINX, AMS-IX, dGIX, etc.
In New Zealand, there are three: NZIX, colocated with the University of Waikato at Hamilton. The original NZ peering point (UoW were the first to bring the internet here thanks to an NSF grant and a 9k6 sync subrate circuit to NASA, which is rumoured to still be live). Runs on ethernet. WIX (Wellington Internet eXchange), a distributed ethernet-based exchange on CityLink infrastructure. CityLink is a metro fibre network in Wellington run by Capital Network Holdings Ltd (CNHL). APE (Auckland Peering eXchange), an ethernet exchange located in the 48th floor of Auckland's Sky Tower. Believed to be the highest public IX (above ground level) in the world, or at least as far as we've heard :) WIX probably carries the most peering traffic today. NZIX is decreasing in significance, although it is still a focal point for a couple of providers' networks. The APE is rather new, and still gaining support from participants, although useful traffic is being exchanged today. To my knowledge, CLEAR Communications, IBM NZ (AT&T global network), IHUG (TIG outside NZ) Telecom NZ, Telstra NZ and Voyager (OzEmail/UUNet) all operate equipment located outside New Zealand, manage their own international networks and participate at one or more of these exchange points. Peering points have played an important role in the NZ internet -- because of our geographic isolation, and the relative scarcity of international under-sea cable capacity, being able to reach any other internet-connected device within NZ without your packets leaving the country is something that people here take very much for granted. Joe
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bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
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Joe Abley
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John Milburn
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Marc Teichtahl
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