FRANCE-IX: The Ultimate Internet Exchange Point in Paris

FRANCE-IX: The Ultimate Internet Exchange Point in Paris

PARIS, June 21, 2010--     Until now, Paris was a divided peering place. France-IX
intends to solve this issue by developing an infrastructure of its own and
gathering the existing Parisian IXPs so it attracts both national and
international exchanges.

    A strong and neutral association model

    France-IX organisation relies on a non-profit association.
This is based on the model of the 3 major IXPs in Europe, which have already
proved their efficiency. Oddly, it has never been implemented in France
before.

    However, it has the main advantage of including the members in
the strategy, through their votes during general meetings. This ensures that
France-IX responds more precisely to the needs of its members. Moreover, the
margins are constantly reinvested into the project, which guarantees that
France-IX provides high-quality and advanced services.

    Services following the market trends

    France-IX offers a complete range of services, including
unicast and multicast IPv4 and IPv6, route servers to facilitate peering,
closed user groups VLANs. France-IX develops its architecture to be able to
provide solutions to triple/quadruple players. Any entity with an AS number
can connect to France-IX.

    France-IX has a large footprint covering 6 different points of
presence located in Interxion, Telehouse and Telecitygroup data centers.
Other POPs are to be deployed by the end of 2010 which will reinforce again
the neutrality of the organisation and raise the traffic level.

    A French IXP going international

    In addition to setting a strong IXP in Paris, France-IX's goal
consists of creating partnerships with IXPs in France and abroad, too. Such
partnerships will be announced in time.

    Thanks to the submarine cables connecting Africa, Middle-East
and India to Marseille (SEACOM, EASSY, SMW 3/4/5), France-IX expects to
attract the growing traffic from the operators based in these areas.

    France-IX starts a pilot phase of 2 months (June until the end
of July) during which the members can peer without being charged any costs.

    For further information, please visit the website
http://www.france-ix.net or contact directly info@france-ix.net

Source: France IX

Solène Souquet; +33(0)1-70-61-97-72; ssouquet@france-ix.net