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France-IX Highlights for 2017-2018 & perspectives Franck SIMON 1 France-IX General Meeting September 2018 2017-2018 - Highlights Continued growth of Paris Consolidation of Marseille Growing number of corporate companies connecting to
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Continued growth of Paris Consolidation of Marseille Growing number of corporate companies connecting to France-IX 100Gbps offers development Wider range of MarketPlace services Growing number of resellers (remote peering) & PoP finder tool Increased international competition between IXPs vs collaboration
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Additional fibre paths Active Coriant DWDM equipment for core PoPs Extreme SLX (increasing density for 10G and 100G ports) on core PoPs
New PoP Interxion MRS-2
Impact of acquisition of Brocade by Extreme for backbone evolutions
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New offers around 100G ports Large offer of services provided through our MarketPlace
(new sellers)
Enhanced features for route servers RPKI filtering
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Quality of service Higher availability objectives for the standard service: move from 99,95% to 99,995%
99,995% objective matched but serious constraint for PoPs with high density of connected members
Release of a QoS objectives document
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Consolidation of the organization (but keep it simple)
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President/CEO + Office Manager CTO CCO (Sales, Marketing, Communication) Finance & administration
Objectives
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Go to paperless internally and externally Optimize contracts signature processes (electronic signature) & simplify contracts Improve internal processes & procedures and produce systematic documentation for more efficiency and capability to welcome new people Improve accounting/billing (to cope with financial auditor recommendations - nominated by the board): automation of processes between our IS and the accounting database Improve transparency and visibility to our community: enhanced communication and reporting
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Newsletters Blog Regular enquiries to collect needs & expectations Quarterly reports Annual report On-request dashboards for management & board (on-going action)
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Departures Between 1st of July 2017 and 30th of June 2018 Arnaud Fenioux Alexandre Corso Marc Mendy
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Technical team
Anastasia Parfenova
Network engineer
Boulbaba Kahila Thierry Draveny
Full stack developer GDPR
(professional training contract – 12 months)
Arrivals
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Commercial team
Simon Thomas
Sales assistant
Arrivals
Nicolas Guy-Grand
Business Developer
Sandrine Gourby
International Business Developer
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Marketing team
Akela Bendjeddou
Marketing & Communication
Mike-Steven Ponnoussamy
Junior web designer
(professional training contract – 18 months)
Arrivals
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More positions to be hired for 2019
2 engineers will join the technical team end of September & November 2018 Still some positions to be hired by end of 2018 Technician Lawyer System engineer / webmaster Moving to new premises mid-October 2018
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During 2017-2018, raise of the working capital to cope with increase of recurring expenses
(more staff & additional equipment bought in leasing mode)
No capital increase required on 2017-2018
Last one done in 2016-2017 to raise the share capital from 60K€ to 250K€ by incorporation of benefits
Still no capital increase planned for 2018-2019
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Next step Consider creating some financial reserves to cope with some cash flows variations, and annual price revision impact (immediate significant loss of revenues every 1st quarter, as decrease of pricing applies for all customers/members and not only new
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Working on new pricing 2019 to grow value for money for our members
Integrate new offer => New pricing effective on 1st of January 2019
Interconnection of Paris & Marseille
Evolution of pricing for the MarketPlace
Only peering traffic is considered for charging members, not the traffic related to MarketPlace services
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Continued cooperation with other French IXPs Any other requests for cooperation with French regional IXPs are welcome Support of new IX initiatives : Brest-IX
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Continued cooperation with LU-CIX, ToPIX
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MoU signed with ARPCE (Congo regulator) to consolidate Congo-IX as a regional hub
Sponsorship Support (official inauguration/launch in August 2017) (setup a second PoP)
Bring support to the cross-border countries hosting an IXP
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Share technical skills and human resources Improve some services, develop more value for our customers/members and save costs (economy of scale)
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