Peering involves two networks coming together to exchange traffic with each other for mutual benefit. The benefits include:

• Lower Costs than Internet transit
• Increased Redundancy: You can peer at multiple locations and thereby reduce dependence on one or more transit providers.
• Increased Capacity: If you have a large amount of traffic you want to increase performance by more evenly distributing traffic across many networks.
• Local Traffic: You can also improve performance by keeping local traffic local.
• Increased Routing Control: You control how and where your traffic is routed.
• Improved Performance: You can peer directly and remove potential bottlenecks with a "direct" path.

Telx has 45 plus customers doing public peering at the TIE exchanges. Together these companies participate in a community of interest exchanging the traffic that makes the Internet run. If you are interested in learning more about whom you can peer with Click here or email tie@telx.com.

...the Internet industry by providing support to:

• Internet Systems Consortium –Telx hosts an Internet F Root Domain Server connected to the TIE Exchange in Atlanta.
• Packet Clearing House -is a non-profit research institute that supports operations and analysis in the areas of Internet traffic exchange, routing economics, and global network development.
• SecSpider -The SecSpider project has maintained a historical view of various information about DNS zones since early in 2005.
• DALnet -Started in 1994 as an alternative to the overburdened networks of the time, DALnet has grown into a vibrant community and is widely regarded as the most "friendly" of the major IRC networks. DALnet pioneered nickname and channel registration, giving users the right and ability to govern their online experience, without the fear of channel takeover, impersonation or harassment.
• Nanog -In June 2008, Telx hosted the first Nanog in New York City, NY. We also put together both the wireless and wireline network used at the New York conference. Telx continues to support NANOG.

Email us for more information on TIE.

Click here to download a Telx Internet Exchange (TIE) spec sheet.

LINX

The London Internet Exchange (LINX) - is a mutual, not-for-profit membership association for operators of IP networks. We provide a neutral interconnection facility and peering platform (IXP/NAP) and represent the interests of our members on matters of public policy. The 300-plus membership include almost all the UK's ISP and content delivery service providers plus many from the Americas, mainland Europe, The Middle East, Far East and Africa. LINX has a presence at ten London sites, all connected by diverse fiber links.

We are pleased to announce that all LINX members now have access to our free sFlow tools allowing them to view traffic flow information between themselves and each of their LINX peers. Both resilient peering LANs support sFlow export, generating statistical data from 600+ Ethernet ports to the LINX bespoke collection system.

Please contact LINX for more information

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DE-CIX

A Peering World
Article by Frank Peter Orlowski
Director of Business Development and Marketing
DE-CIX Internet Exchange, Frankfurt/Germany

When the first Europeans went online in the early 1990s slow dial up connections were considered state of the art and most of the intra-European traffic was exchanged in the US. This did not only have a negative effect on the performance (due to the additional delay having the traffic passing the Atlantic twice and the fact that MAE-EAST, MAE-WEST, and other exchanges weren’t exactly known to be rock solid exchange platforms) but it was a commercial problem, too. Back then E1 (2Mbps) connections were considered major backbone trunks and E3 or DS3 (34Mbps/45Mbps) were used by the big guys only. Saying these circuits were super-expensive should give you an idea how different the (Internet) world was back then.

To overcome these problems, the first Internet exchanges in Europe were born. DE-CIX in Frankfurt was one of them. In 1995 three providers decided to build an exchange and used a little Ethernet Switch to build it.  The switch was located in a facility in downtown Frankfurt no one would consider for putting a switch in today.

A lot of things have changed since then...TO READ FULL ARTICLE CLICK HERE

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Stealth

We wish all our friends and colleagues a prosperous 2009 and look forward to working with many of you! Stealth rounded up 2008 on a great note- It carried more than 30 Gbps on average of IP traffic on the Big Apple Peering Exchange at Telx 60 Hudson, peaking to over 50 Gbps, making it one of the busiest Internet Exchanges in the North East; and Stealth’s Voice Peering Fabric peaked over 2 billion minutes on a single day and ended 2008 with an annualized run-rate of over 450 billion minutes, up from 200 billion in 2007.

New videos posted on YouTube! The Summer 2008 Voice Peering Forum held in San Francisco was a smash and now you can replay the entire event online. Interviews and sessions are being posted weekly featuring leading companies from the web and telecom sector sharing their insights on their company, industry and business model transformation.

Watch now at: www.youtube.com/telecomspecialist and send your comments to info@stealth.net.

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Intelepeer^TM

IntelePeer™ delivers the most sophisticated, comprehensive applications (ReachSuite) and platform (AppworX) available. Our infrastructure provides the first truly open access to carrier-grade telecom functionality with  software and network capacity delivered from the Cloud as an on-demand, fully hosted and managed service. Through our peering technology, we directly connect leading carriers, service providers, application providers and web communities, enabling them to create and exchange voice traffic with greater quality and at lower cost. We simplify the complexity of telecommunications, managing security, authentication, peering, transcoding, interoperability, protocol conversion, billing and service management. IntelePeer™ removes the cost and complexity of voice communications, enabling our customers to create innovative new applications and dramatically reduce their costs.

For more information about IntelePeer™ please contact John.

Internet Systems Consortium

Atlanta is our 46th F-root node globally and our 7th in the US. It’s only through the support of Telx, and other partners, that F-root has been able to expand and enhance the stability of the global DNS.

Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) is a non-profit 501(c)(3), public benefit corporation with a long history of developing and maintaining the BIND and DHCP Open Source software applications.

ISC is also engaged in protocol development efforts in the areas of DNSSEC and facilitating the transition to IPv6. ISC is funded by the donations of generous sponsors, membership fees and services such as software support for BIND and DHCP, SNS@ISC, secondary DNS hosting, DNS & DHCP training and consulting.

Visit our website at http://www.isc.org to learn more.

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Fast Link Access

The IX Cycle
By David Diaz

Over the years the importance of Internet Peering Exchanges (IXs) to larger backbone service providers has been cyclical. Looking back it's easy to see one factor why...PORT SIZE. The first time we saw a big move away from IXs by the larger backbones was with the introduction of FDDI switches in the late '90s. Congestion and increasing traffic levels at the IXs offered a diminishing return to the larger service providers in the late '90s. So, many large providers left the exchanges and did private peering.

With a jump to 1 Gig ports we saw a move back as backbones could once again optimize their traffic by aggregating many peers over a single expensive port on their routers. They saw about a - 10 fold increase in usable capacity. A few years later we saw the same cycle repeat itself as 1 Gig ports were not large enough to accommodate all the peer to peer traffic between multiple large backbones. With another 10 fold increase to 10gig ports the IXs saw a resurgence. Anyone buying Juniper or Cisco 10gig router ports at the time knew how prohibitively expensive they were. No one could afford to have these cards sitting partially idle at any time. This is especially true when you factor in the limited density of 10gig ports in those routers. We are likely once again in the next cycle for IXs. 10gig ports are much cheaper and many backbones have used cheaper 10gig switch ports to aggregate traffic before handing traffic off to a core router. Along with another huge growth of internet traffic levels, IXs are at the end of another cycle.

Good news is coming. Around the corner is another 10 fold increase to 100gig ports. IXs have been pushing equipment vendors for this leap in port size. What should you do? Keep an eye on the equipment vendors’ efforts in this area. Also, service providers would be well to lock in deals with their IXs now. Larger service providers can often negotiate attractive deals depending on their traffic levels and peering policies. 100 gig ports and the continuing growth in Internet traffic will force carriers to deal with the cost/density issue once again. In this environment, IXs can be extremely beneficial to both larger and smaller peers.

Comments on this article? Feel free to let us know your thoughts - email us!

120 East Van Buren St- Phoenix, Arizona

Being the leader in interconnection, Telx is the "go-to" Meet-Me-Room operator within 120 East Van Buren Street, the #1 carrier hotel in the Phoenix Metro-area.

In June 2008, to meet the growing colocation and interconnections demands, Telx launched The Telx Internet Exchange (TIE), an Internet Peering Exchange in our Phoenix Arizona facility. Telx entered the Phoenix market to offer quality peering services that leverage the strength of our interconnection community. The Phoenix TIE is based on the Force 10 platform.

The Phoenix TIE platforms are monitored 24x7 and are ready to accept Ethernet connections immediately. The Telx Internet Exchange (TIE) is also offered at our Atlanta facility. Telx customers in Atlanta and Phoenix now have the ability to purchase one-stop-shopping solutions that includes space, power and interconnectivity between networks as well as interconnectivity to the TIE platforms.

Telx acquired its facility at 120 East Van Buren Street in December 2006.

Email us for more information.

Click here to download a Telx TIE spec sheet.

Click here to download a spec sheet on Telx's Phoenix facility.

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