ARIN on the Road – Halifax Exchange Points in Canada & a HFXIX Update

Shawn Beaton, CIRA

May 21st, 2015 Goals & Objecves • You know more about the Canadian IXP infrastructure. • Evoluon • Accessibility INTERNET • Benefits • Who should Peer

As an organizaon or individual you can parcipate and collaborate with us in the evoluon and the success of a beer internet in Canada

ARIN – Halifax - 2015 2 Internet Exchange Point • Layer 2 switching and peering fabric – Physical Ethernet switch or switches with fibre or copper, at 100M, 1G, 10G or 100G bit/sec • Properly and strategically located (easy to access) • Vendor neutral • Non profit organizaon • Peers / Members base – Mix of Content, ISP and Transit Provider • Services (Route Server, NTP, DNS, AS112) • Low cost soluon

ARIN – Halifax - 2015 3 Internet Peering Peering

Peering: You agree to exchange local traffic

ARIN – Halifax - 2015 4 What is required to Peer • ASN (Autonomous System Number) • BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) • IPv4 and IPv6* • Connecvity to the IX (Copper / Fiber)

ARIN – Halifax - 2015 5 IXPs and Traffic Routing

Transit Transit $ $ Canadian Canadian Canadian Canadian ISP ISP ISP ISP Toronto Last Mile Last Mile Last Mile IXP Transit Peering Transit $$ $ Peering $ $ Canadian Canadian Canadian Canadian Canadian Canadian ISP ISP ISP ISP ISP ISP

Canada Canada Transit Transit Transit Transit USA USA $$$ $$$ $$$ $$$

USA USA USA USA USA USA IXP IXP IXP IXP IXP IXP Transit Transit $$$ $$$

Internet Internet

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The Internet US

Canadian Internet Services Transit Peering DNS Servers NTP Route DNS Servers (root & .CA) Time Servers Servers for ISPs

R&E Research & ISP $$$ Education Networks $ - IXP - Cable / DSL $$$ US $ Internet Service Providers Colocation - LOCAL - $$$ Data Centers Non-profit ISP $ US Vendor Neutral Wireless $$$ $ CDN Self Regulating Domestic $$$ $ “Peering” ISP Free or commercial Mobile CDN $ $$$ $ agreements $$$ International

Content Provider Networks FAST / LOW COST US ISP Governments VoIP (voice) US $ $$$ $$$ Municipalities $ $$ $$ CDN: Content Delivery Transit Providers Transit Providers ISP: Internet Service Network Domestic International Provider $$$ $$$

Transit Providers

Network of Domesc & US US Networks The Internet Internaonal Evoluon of IX in Canada

ARIN – Halifax - 2015 8 Other potenal IX in Canada

• Community acvies

– Saint John, New Brunswick – Windsor, Ontario – Edmonton, – Regina, Saskatchewan – Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

ARIN – Halifax - 2015 9 Quesons?

ARIN – Halifax - 2015 10 Halifax – HFXIX

• New Start 3 weeks ago (May, 2015) – Granted a switch via CIRA CIC funding • Locaon – 7071 Bayer's Road, Halifax • Peers (7) – including CANARIE, CIRA, and 3 Universies • Services – NTP, Router servers, .CA DNS, AS112 • Contact ( [email protected] )

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