France-IX
France-IX is a Paris-based Internet exchange point founded in June 2010 as a membership organisation. it interconnects more than 496 members, making it the largest IXP in France.
History
France-IX was initially discussed by Raphael Maunier and Maurice Dean in 2008 in Dublin. The project of setting up the internet exchange, initially called PhoenIX, was launched in December 2008. Wouter van Hulten 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 and Nicolas Strina soon joined the initiative.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.
Organisation
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,. France-IX has 28 employees.
Network
As of July 26, 2021, France-IX network has 24 points of presence.- Equinix-Telecity PA6 Condorcet
- Equinix-Telecity PA7 Courbevoie
- Scaleway Datacenter DC2 Vitry-sur-Seine
- Scaleway Datacenter DC3 Vitry-sur-Seine
- Interxion PAR1 Aubervilliers
- Interxion PAR2 Aubervilliers
- Interxion PAR5 Saint-Denis
- Telehouse 2 Paris
- Telehouse 3 Magny-les-Hameaux
- Data4 Nozay
- Interxion MRS1 Marseille
- Interxion MRS2 Marseille
- Jaguar Network MRS01 Marseille
- LyonIX 1 Villeurbanne
- LyonIX 2 Vénissieux
- LyonIX 3 Limonest
- LyonIX 4 Collombier-Saugnieu
- LyonIX 5 Bron
- LyonIX 6 Lyon
- LyonIX 7 Lyon
- LyonIX 8 Saint-Trivier-sur-Moignans
- GrenoblIX 1 Cogent, 33 rue Joseph Chanrion, 38000 Grenoble
- GrenoblIX 2 Eolas, 73 rue du Général Mangin, 38000 Grenoble
- AnnecIX 1 Shelter SYANE, 2-8 rue des Garennes, 74960 Annecy
Ports of connection
Services are available through two types of ports and several bandwidth options.Services
France-IX offers the following professional services:- Public peering: Unicast & multicast IPv4, unicast IPv6
- Interconnections with 5 internet exchange point in France, in Italy and in Luxembourg
- Private peering, multipass peering, PNI VLAN, PNI WAVE, Cloud access
- NTP Synchronization
- Routes servers
- Webportal: private login per member, personal detailed traffic statistics.
- 24/7 NOC
Community
France-IX community comes from all around the world. Any organisation which owns an Autonomous System Number can be connected to France-IX. The connected members of the internet exchange point have various profiles:- Operators / Services Providers / Internet Access Providers
- CDN
- Hosting companies
- Cloud providers
- Gamers
- Online media
- Corporations
- DNS
- Search engine
Partners
France-IX concluded five interconnections with other internet exchanges to foster the exchange of internet traffic in France and Europe.- SFINX based in Paris and operated by the French academic network
- Lyonix based in Lyon, France, and operated by Rezopole
- LU-CIX based in Luxemburg
- TouIX based in Toulouse, France
- TopIX based in Torino, Italy