The Real Internet JUNKIE

NYIIX , the east costs largest public peering exchange experienced some performance troubles today from 05:30 EST thru 16:00 EST. As of writing this post things seem to be back to normal.

My company Atlantic Metro saw a large influx of support requests relating to network performance to many ISPs that we peer with us on this peering exchange. Our engineers we able to quickly drain traffic and pass it over alternate routes. It seems we were not the only network to do this, as we got several notifications from GOOGLE who we also peer with, saying they were draining traffic from all peers until the issues were resolved.

As you can see from the traffic graphs something was clearly going wrong.

The following is a list of peering exchange members that were affected by todays outage.

Belgacom
AS6774

IIJ
AS2497

Tele2
AS1257

Microsoft 2nd
AS8075

Highwinds
AS12989

Abovenet
AS6461

C&W
AS1273
nLayer
AS4436

Terremark
AS23148

Swisscom
AS3303

Freedom
AS36692

TDS
AS4181

Eze Castle
AS14717

Megapath
AS4565

Verisign
AS36619

DataPipe
AS14492

Layer42
AS8121

Comstar
AS8359

Steadfast
AS32748

PCH
AS3856

RETN
AS9002

Telenor
AS2119

Microsoft
AS8075

Google
AS15169

WBS
AS19080

Voxel
AS29791

Cablevision
AS6128

BT networks
AS5400

Yahoo
AS10310

Time Warner
AS4323

Mzima
AS25973

Limelight
AS22822

Akamai
AS20940

Bharti
AS9498

Cox
AS22773

Internap
AS22212

Cavalier
AS16810

Bandcon
AS26769

UPC
AS6830

1&1
AS8560

IPnetzone
AS20077

Integra
AS7385

Reliance Globalcom
AS15412

Edgecast Networks
AS15133

New Members on Public Exchange Points

NYIIX – www.nyiix.net

Edgecast Networks | AS 25133
MSK-IX | AS 31649

Story by Dan Golding, Tier1 Reseach

The North American Internet exchange point (IXP) business – public peering – is largely dominated by Equinix, with some localized competition from Switch and Data (Palo Alto, New York), Telx (Atlanta, Phoenix), CRG West (various) and Terremark (Miami). In most cases, the winning strategy is to be where Equinix isn’t – Silicon Valley is an exception because PAIX was there first. It’s not that there isn’t enough interconnection business for two locations – it’s that in the US, most traffic is privately interconnected, leaving a relatively modest amount for public IXP interconnection. That traffic and money is best concentrated, rather than distributed.

That thought comes to mind in light of some interesting news regarding the ChiX IXP located at 350 Cermak (suite 240) in Chicago. Sharp-eyed readers will recognize that building as the site of Equinix’s CH1 and CH2 facilities, on floors 5 and 6. Telx also has a meet me room in the facility. The news is that Tiscali is offering remote peering service – essentially VPN transport services – to allow folks in other facilities to access the ChiX switch.

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