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RIPE SEE 7, 19 June 2018, Timişoara
ANIXThe Albanian Neutral Internet Exchange
Daniele Arena – NAMEX
Kledi Andoni – ANIX
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Last year, at RIPE SEE 6 in Budva…
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What happened since last year?
• We organized the first Albanian Network Operators Forum
(ALNOF) on 14 November 2017 in Tirana
• Aim: get Albanian ISPs together to discuss networking
• Partners:
• RIPE NCC, ISOC
• Cisco, ADVA
• Results:
• ANIX initiative presented
to Albanian ISPs
• ALNOG (Network Operators
Group) created
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ALNOF Snapshots
• More that 100 attendees
• 50 Albanian ISPs and agencies
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A few months later…• ANIX Infrastructure has been set up
• Colocation: RASH (Academic Network of Albania)
• Hardware: Cisco core switch (donated by NAMEX)
• AS numbers and PI space allocated by RIPE NCC
• More details later
• Kledi joined the team
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Where are we now?
• ANIX is live!
• Started March 2018
• 3 peers connected
• 6 on the way
• Daily peak: 50-60 Mbps
• Spikes of 800 Mbps
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Albania seen from IXP-Country-Jedi (1)
February 2018 June 2018
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Albania seen from IXP-Country-Jedi (2)
Still some work to do…
February 2018 June 2018
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Albanian content is hosted abroad
Poor local interconnection
Packets have to go abroad
and come back
Why not just host content abroad?
• Out of the Albanian Top-50 websites in Alexa…
• None of them are hosted inside Albania!
• (Many ISPs even host their own website outside Albania)
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Our vision: “peerify” Albania
Healthy interconnection
environment
Keep local traffic local
Development of local
infrastructure
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ANIX OPERATIONS
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ANIX
• The only Neutral IXP in Albania
• Hosted by RASH (the Albanian Academic Network) in their Tirana Datacenter• Redundant Power and Cooling
• The only IXP in Albania which will be run by its members• Only requirements are technical
• Members can exchange services over ANIX
• Equipment donated by NaMeX and others
• Several ISPs helped with conduit installations from the public pipe to the datacenter
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Technical info
• 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
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Technical info
• ANIX physical configuration
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Technical info
• ANIX Logical configuration
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Technical info
• IXP Manager• Membership maintenance
• Billing functions
• Switch maintenance
• Route server automatic configuration
• IRR database filtering for routes received
• Graphing and statistics
• Members interface
• Open Source software
• Community support
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Technical info
• 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
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Peering and Traffic
• 3 active members
• ABCOM
• ATU
• RASH
• 28 ASNs visible
• 140+ routes
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Goal: increasing member base
• Increase visibility
• Provide training
• Encourage/help ISPs who are present to optimize their
routing in order to make the most of the exchnage
• Encourage/help members to maintain their RIPE DB
objects and PeeringDB profile
• Bring international carriers
• Bring caches from OTT/CDNs
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RIPE SEE 7, 19 June 2018, Timişoara
Q&AKledi Andoni – [email protected]
Daniele Arena – [email protected]
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BACKUP SLIDES
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Update on Albanian ISP/Internet Situation
• (Updated June 2018)
• Albania is an ISP-rich environment: 55 ASNs
• Comparison: 41 MK, 15 ME, 144 GR, 158 RS
• 909 IPv4 Routes
• 37 IPv6 Routes
• 42 ASNs with basic interconnection
• i.e. 3 IPv4 “adjacencies” (i.e. peerings + transits) or less
• 76% of total
• Only 5 with 7+ adjacencies (i.e. “active” peering)
• Content
• About 19,400 .al domains registered
(Sources: HE, DomainTools)