Hello Everybody,
I am here to announce that TIC in Iran launched Neutral Internet Exchange
Points.
Right now we have four in:
- Tehran (tehran-ix.ir)
- Shiraz (shiraz-ix.ir)
- Tabriz (tabriz-ix.ir)
- Mashhad (mashhad-ix.ir)
Currently we have near 45Gbps traffic on it but it will increase to 100Gbps
within two months. Content Providers activating their BGP peering with
members one by one.
Also I have something interesting for you around the world, TIC is
launching a International IX in Chabahar called Chabahar IX (chabahar-ix.ir)
which can be interesting for T1 ISPs or Content Providers like Akamai,
Amazon, Google, Limelight, Cloudflare and etc.
We are able to give anyone colocation space or ground for building their
own Datacenter.
As you know Iran is cheapest country in Middle East for Energy and
Electricity reasons so we are the best opportunity for having a node there.
Cables we have there right now are POI, FALCON and GCX.
Please share this with your friends or your Business Development
departments.
If anyone have question regard this you can contact me via this email or
peering@tic.ir.
Thanks
Thanks, I'll get this to the right people internally (AKAMAI). In the
meantime, there are a number of peering groups on Facebook (global
peering forum, peering forum, peeringDB) that you may want to join to
discuss this as well.
Don't forget to register in peeringDB:
https://www.peeringdb.com/search?q=IRAN
And finally, great pictures! http://www.tehran-ix.ir/fa/news/ixp-workshop
Good luck!
Best,
Martin
Can’t agree more about putting your IXPs on PeeringDB, it’s my first port of call when looking at locations to expand to.
Also, I would say to add the data centres too, to give a better idea of where the IXPs are physically located.
Regards,
Marty Strong
Great work. Might be worthwhile to also look at throwing your fabric/IX on
Cloud Scene www.cloudscene.com . Provides visibility for people looking
for DC's, providers and fabrics that just aren't limited to IX locations or
peers.
Cheers
[b]
That's a nifty site but isn't it largely overlapping with peeringdb
which is already more established?
Just my two pence.
James.
Hi James,
I hear you. Massive fan of peeringdb and this isn't about replacing that.
Peeringdb provides a list of registered peers in a DC that has an IX.
Great for looking at where to peer.
Cloud Scene looks at all providers (4,000+) whether they are peering or not
in any DC (4,800+ DC's) whether they are IX enabled or not. It is aimed
to give a full view of service providers in each facility around the
world. Good list and growing over time. A more detailed example of the
areas of differentiation is below. Important to note that if you are a
someone that acquires/sells backhaul, L2 tails, transit, international
capacity, voice etc. then peeringdb is not really the place to get a
detailed list.
Agree in this instance peeringdb is definitely the first stop. But no harm
in covering all bases for people who are looking for colo in that market
and find the fact one DC has an IX to be of value.
Cheers
[b]
EXAMPLE 1.
There maybe for example an enterprise that is looking for a service
provider in a facility (XYZ in NY for example) but that provider actually
"peers" their transit routers at the ABC facility down the street. Because
the provider doesn't peer in XYZ there is no public record of them being
there in peering DB. Providers are in heaps of DC's/locations that they
just don't peer. So they effectively have no central location where people
can see that they are "available to service". This is more of a directory
of where providers are and what services they can provide.
EXAMPLE 2.
There are also now heaps of facilities that have no IX/fabric in them at
all. Cloud Scene gives people access to understand who is in there which
is great from a network planning perspective to see which facility/ies they
may wish to instal their kit in. Also it's good for IX's to look at where
they may extend their infra into. In the next few weeks/months major cloud
providers will be plugged in too to give a more complete view of the cloud
scene in any city.
Hi James,
I hear you. Massive fan of peeringdb and this isn't about replacing that
(in fact love to simply integrate).
Peeringdb provides a list of registered peers in a DC that has an IX.
Great for looking at where to peer.
Cloud Scene looks at all providers (4,000+) whether they are peering or not
in any DC (4,800+ DC's) whether they are IX enabled or not. It is aimed
to give a full view of service providers in each facility around the
world. Good list and growing over time. A more detailed example is
below. Important to note that if you are a someone that acquires/sells
backhaul, L2 tails, transit, international capacity, voice etc. then
peeringdb is not really the place to go.
Agree in this instance peeringdb is definitely the first stop. But no harm
in covering all bases for people who are looking for colo in that market
and find the fact one DC has an IX to be of value.
Cheers
[b]
PS: Declaration that I started Cloud Scene to help me understand better
what networks were where. Happy to take this offline after this explainer.
EXAMPLE 1.
There maybe for example an enterprise that is looking for a service
provider in a facility (XYZ in NY for example) but that provider actually
"peers" their transit routers at the ABC facility down the street. Because
the provider doesn't peer in XYZ there is no public record of them being
there in peering DB. Providers are in heaps of DC's/locations that they
just don't peer. So they effectively have no central location where people
can see that they are "available to service". This is more of a directory
of where providers are and what services they can provide.
EXAMPLE 2.
There are also now heaps of facilities that have no IX/fabric in them at
all. Cloud Scene gives people access to understand who is in there which
is great from a network planning perspective to see which facility/ies they
may wish to instal their kit in. Also it's good for IX's to look at where
they may extend their infra into. In the next few weeks/months major cloud
providers will be plugged in too to give a more complete view of the cloud
scene in any city.
Cheers
[b]
* bevan@slattery.net.au (Bevan Slattery) [Tue 12 Jul 2016, 15:33 CEST]:
Peeringdb provides a list of registered peers in a DC that has an IX.
Great for looking at where to peer.
PeeringDB lists many datacenters without any IXP. The difference seems to be that PeeringDB data is provided by the networks themselves rather than third parties.
Having recently asked a datacenter about what providers were present in their facilities and receiving an answer similar to "Who would you like to be there?", I much prefer PeeringDB's model of ensuring data completeness and correctness.
-- Niels.
Awww, you didn't want to take Santa up on his offer? Bad, bad Niels :-)...
When I was a kid, I often thought recordings on VHS cassettes happened
by simply taking a pen and writing the title of the movie on the
cassette label, sitting the tape on the side of the VCR and waiting
patiently till dinner was over. All those phantom Knight Rider, Air Wolf
and Miami Vice shows I could have enjoyed growing up... oh well...
Mark.
Hmm, so maybe I'm just a maverick, we are not using any public peering
fabrics at minute due to what can only be described as a senior
management cluster fuck, so on peeringdb we list some pops that we are
in that we are willing (and do) have private peering sessions in. It
doesn't say on peeringdb that there are IX's in some of these PoPs but
hopefully when we need to establish a private interconnect with
someone they will see we are in the same PoP as them even though there
is no IX in that PoP and put 2 and 2 together, and contact us to
discuss a cross connect.
For the avoidance of doubt, I'm not trying to poo poo the site, just
trying to work out where the different is feature set lies exactly.
Cheers,
James.
Hmm, so maybe I'm just a maverick, we are not using any public peering
fabrics at minute due to what can only be described as a senior
management cluster foook [1], so on peeringdb we list some pops that we are
in that we are willing (and do) have private peering sessions in. It
doesn't say on peeringdb that there are IX's in some of these PoPs but
hopefully when we need to establish a private interconnect with
someone they will see we are in the same PoP as them even though there
is no IX in that PoP and put 2 and 2 together, and contact us to
discuss a cross connect.
For the avoidance of doubt, I'm not trying to poo poo the site, just
trying to work out where the different is feature set lies exactly.
Cheers,
James.
[1] Is this a list for adults or children, my original email bounced
back because I used the work f*ck?
Foul language is frowned upon.
https://www.nanog.org/list
Chuck