Despite the growing adoption of Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) across the globe, many stakeholders—including network engineers, enterprise IT teams, and even decision-makers—often harbor misconceptions about the actual role of an IXP within the internet ecosystem. One of the most common misunderstandings is equating IXPs with IP transit providers.
This presentation provides a comprehensive...
RFC5549/RFC8950 specifies a way of announcing IPv4 routes using IPv6 next-hops, allowing networks and IXPs to remove IPv4 link addressing, and reuse that address space more productively. There is a working group at Euro-IX that has tested the interoperability of RFC8950 implementations and lays out the basics of its usage in an IXP environment. A handful of IXPs have already deployed RFC8950...
Every Internet Service Provider on the face of the Earth needs to use a Quality of Experience middle-box on their network. A middle-box gives you visibility into your network: latency, jitter and bufferbloat only become apparent when you look. Spot congestion and latency spikes at every level of the network. A middle-box gives you proactive monitoring: identify the customers who are...
