Amsterdam Internet Exchange

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

  (Redirected from AMS-IX)
Jump to: navigation, search
Amsterdam Internet Exchange
Logo Amsterdam Internet Exchange.png
Background information
Full name Amsterdam Internet Exchange
Abbreviation AMS-IX
Founded 1997 (unofficially 1994)
Location Amsterdam, Netherlands
Website www.ams-ix.net
Members 341
Ports 612
Internet traffic
Peak in 799.919 Gb/s
Peak out 799.655 Gb/s
Daily in (avg.) 516.669 Gb/s
Daily out (avg.) 516.367 Gb/s

The Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) is an Internet exchange point situated in Amsterdam, in the Netherlands. AMS-IX is a fast growing, non-profit, neutral and independent peering point. The AMS-IX is the largest Internet Exchange in the world, when measured by average throughput.

Contents

[edit] History

Year Peak traffic
2002 12 Gbit/s[1]
2003 21 Gbit/s[1]
2004 48 Gbit/s[2]
2005 120 Gbit/s[3]
2006 220 Gbit/s[3]
2007 374 Gbit/s[4]
2008 608 Gbit/s[5]

In February 1994, a layer 2 shared infrastructure, used between academic institutes, was connected with CERN to exchange traffic. Other internet service providers were allowed to connect and the name AMS-IX was first used. In 1997, the AMS-IX Association was founded by twenty of the connected internet service providers and carriers.[3]

In 2002, the Netherlands Internet Exchange was founded as an alternative or backup for the Amsterdam Internet Exchange.[6]

As of March 9, 2009, AMS-IX connected 312 members on 565 ports[7] and the all time peak of incoming traffic was 655.113 Gbit/s and of outgoing traffic 654.078 compared to 608.573 incoming and 607.962 Gbit/s.[8] outgoing, at December 6, 2008. The total amount of data transferred by month was (Avg. incoming and outgoing) 75,940TB in November 2008. By April 2009, it had grown to 124,550TB, 64% more traffic in a 5 month period.

These traffic speeds make the Amsterdam Internet Exchange the largest internet exchange in the world, when measured by number of connected members and by internet traffic, before the Deutscher Commercial Internet Exchange[9] and the London Internet Exchange.[10]

An optical fiber photonic switch at the AMS-IX
The AMS-IX core cage at euNetworks

[edit] Points of presence

AMS-IX members are able to connect at seven locations, all located within Amsterdam:

Third-party network transport links also offer access to AMS-IX.[11]

[edit] Network

The AMS-IX platform is continually evolving due to its rapid growth in traffic and number of connected member ports. Currently it is using a redundant hub-spoke architecture using a core switch and multiple edge switches.[12] This double-star topology brings the advantage of being able to perform maintenance on the network without any impact on customer traffic, and to anticipate on fiber and equipment problems by (automatically) switching to the backup topology as soon as a failure in one of the active components occurs. The active switching topology star is determined by means of the VSRP protocol.

AMS-IX members connect to the platform with 10, 100 Mbit/s, 1 or 10 Gbit/s Ethernet connections, or using multiple gigabit or 10 gigabit aggregated ports, utilizing the 802.3ad standard. Gigabit Ethernet and lower speed ports are directly connected to Foundry Networks BigIron 15000 or RX-8 network switches. 10 Gigabit member ports are connected to Glimmerglass Systems photonic switches which maintain an optical connection to the stub switch on the currently active side of the network, following the VSRP protocol. For each 10 Gigabit port there is an active and a backup stub switch, for which BigIron RX-8, RX-16 or NetIron MLX-16 switches are used. The core consists of two Foundry NetIron MLX-32 switches, to which all edge switches are connected using 10 gigabit aggregated connections and WDM technology.

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Annual Report 2003. Retrieved on 2008-02-10.
  2. ^ Annual Report 2004. Retrieved on 2008-02-10.
  3. ^ a b c Annual Report 2006. Retrieved on 2008-02-10.
  4. ^ Annual Report 2007. Retrieved on 2008-10-01.
  5. ^ Annual Report 2008. Retrieved on 2009-07-08.
  6. ^ "NL-ix News". www.nl-ix.net. Netherlands Internet Exchange. http://www.nl-ix.net/news.php. Retrieved 2008-09-11. 
  7. ^ "AMS-IX - Connected Parties". www.ams-ix.net. Amsterdam Internet Exchange. https://www.ams-ix.net/connected/. Retrieved 2008-11-25. 
  8. ^ "AMS-IX - Traffic". www.ams-ix.net. Amsterdam Internet Exchange. 2008-11-25. https://www.ams-ix.net/technical/stats/. Retrieved 2008-11-25. 
  9. ^ Deutscher Commercial Internet Exchange Traffic. Retrieved on 2008-02-10.
  10. ^ LINX Aggregated Traffic Statistics. Retrieved on 2008-02-10.
  11. ^ Partnerpage AMS-IX site visited on 1 June 2008
  12. ^ "AMS-IX topology". http://www.ams-ix.net/technical/topology.html. Retrieved 2008-05-22. 

[edit] External links

Search Wikimedia Commons Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Amsterdam Internet Exchange
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Internet_Exchange"