INTERCONNECTION IN ALBANIA AND ANIX 17/11/2018 (2018 UPDATE) - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

• 1 -

17/11/2018

INTERCONNECTION IN ALBANIA AND ANIX (2018 UPDATE)

ALNOG – Albanian Network Operators’ Group TIRANA, 14th November 2018

Daniele Arena – d.arena@namex.it Kledi Andoni – kledi@anix.al

• 2 -

17/11/2018

• 2 -

TIRANA, 14th November 2018

LAST YEAR…

• 3 -

17/11/2018

• 3 -

TIRANA, 14th November 2018

LAST YEAR… (1)

• 4 -

17/11/2018

• 4 -

TIRANA, 14th November 2018

LAST YEAR… (2)

• 5 -

17/11/2018

• 5 -

TIRANA, 14th November 2018

LAST YEAR… (3)

• 6 -

17/11/2018

• 6 -

TIRANA, 14th November 2018

AND NOW: (1)

• Tirana
• Milan
• Geneva
• Frankfurt
• Amsterdam
• Copenhagen
• Stockholm
• Frankfurt
• Milan
• Tirana

RTT: 120 ms

(RIPE Atlas, November 2018)

• 7 -

17/11/2018

• 7 -

TIRANA, 14th November 2018

AND NOW: (2)

(IXP Country Jedi)

• 8 -

17/11/2018

• 8 -

TIRANA, 14th November 2018

AND NOW: (3)

• 9 -

17/11/2018

• 9 -

TIRANA, 14th November 2018

SO, WHAT CHANGED?

• Daily peak: 60-70 Mbps

ANIX is live!

• Started March 2018
• 5 peers connected

• 10 -

17/11/2018

• 10 -

TIRANA, 14th November 2018

INTERCONNECTION EVOLUTION

(IXP Country Jedi)

February 2018 (pre-ANIX) November 2018

• 11 -

17/11/2018

• 11 -

TIRANA, 14th November 2018

INTERCONNECTION EVOLUTION

(IXP Country Jedi)

February 2018 (pre-ANIX) November 2018

• 12 -

17/11/2018

• 12 -

TIRANA, 14th November 2018

ANIX

• The only Neutral IXP in Albania
• Hosted by RASH in their Tirana Datacenter (Rruga e

Durrësit)

• Redundant Power and Cooling
• Only requirements are technical
• Members can exchange services over ANIX
• So far: voluntary effort
• Equipment donated by NaMeX and others
• Several ISPs helped with conduit installations from the public

pipe to the datacenter

• Kledi joined the team

• 13 -

17/11/2018

• 13 -

TIRANA, 14th November 2018

ANIX TECHNICAL INFO: HARDWARE

• 1 Cisco 6503 Switch
• 2 10G ports
• 16 Optical Gigabit ports
• 48 10/100/1000 ports
• 2 x86 Servers
• VMWare hypervisor
• 2 Route servers, 1 Route collector, 1 AS112 Route server,

1 Quarantine route server, IXP Manager, Reverse proxy/firewall

• One route server on each server for redundancy
• Ability to move VMs to the next server in case of

equipment failure

• 1 Management router and switch

• 14 -

17/11/2018

• 14 -

TIRANA, 14th November 2018

ANIX TECHNICAL INFO: SOFTWARE

• IXP Manager
• Membership maintenance and billing
• Switch maintenance and graphs
• Automatic configuration of Route Server
• IRR database filtering for routes received
• Members interface
• Route Servers
• BIRD Internet Routing Daemon
• Both v4 and v6
• 2 public route servers for redundancy
• Configuration automatically generated by

IXPM

• Performance statistics available over SNMP
• BGP update dumps

• 15 -

17/11/2018

• 15 -

TIRANA, 14th November 2018

WHAT WE’RE WORKING ON

• Increase member base
• 6 members «on the way»
• Governance
• The IXP should be self-sufficient (member fees)
• Association
• Switch upgrade
• Donation from PCH
• PCH will also send a server with DNS resources:
• Root servers, TLD servers, Quad9 (9.9.9.9)
• Bringing international carriers
• Bringing international content (OTT/CDN)
• Supporting and training ISPs
• BGP course last May
• Support with routing optimization
• Support with RIPE DB objects and PeeringDB Profile

• 16 -

17/11/2018

• 16 -

TIRANA, 14th November 2018

THE PHILOSOPHY…

• Remains the same!

• 17 -

17/11/2018

• 17 -

TIRANA, 14th November 2018

PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT

• A lot of these measurements have been made thanks to RIPE

Atlas (https://atlas.ripe.net/)

• These measurements are based on probes spread throughout

worldwide networks

• There are about 60 ASNs between Albania and Kosovo
• Only 10 of those have active probes!
• Several of you already have probes but they’re disconnected
• Please put them back online!
• If you don’t have probes in your AS…
• We have some for you!
• Find me or Petrit from RIPE NCC
• Good measurements benefit everyone
• “You can’t manage what you can’t measure”
• With a probe you can make your own

• 18 -

17/11/2018

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION!

ALNOG – Albanian Network Operators’ Group TIRANA, 14th November 2018

Daniele Arena – d.arena@namex.it