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K-IX in pill

Here comes a draft information about K-IX in English based on questions and answers given to IX annual report. As K-IX is still polish project, we do receive questions about it from our members and friends worldwide. Thus we hope this draft fills a bit lack of information in English about our project.

Questions:

1. Date of K-IX establishment
2. Can you give me a list of the ASNs and their company names that are connected to K-IX ( I can only see the names) and are they Ipv6 active?
3. How many locations in Lodz and Warsaw can one connected to K-IX?
4. How many switches do you have in the K-IX infrastructure and what brand and models are they?
5. What is a contact to the project.

Answers:

ad 1 - 2009.

ad 2 - It's more complex ;-) We do have own peers and peerings with other main IXes in Poland. Moreover - it is a structure of exchange IP points, not one location.

As for July, 2011 prefix list looks as follows:

Neighbor        V           AS MsgRcvd MsgSent   TblVer  InQ OutQ Up/Down  State/PfxRcd
91.212.9.11     4       48850 1522379  288719 89166418    0    0 4w6d        14334
We have both - own prefixes (around 80 companies at the moment and prefixes of other main polish IX'es - AC-X, TP-IX, PLIX).

It is a summary of own and shared prefixes (with other polish IXes). Our own resurces are nowadays about 300 prefixes - mainly from over 50 polish local ISP's. But as we do share prefixes with other IX'es with some 10G ports - we do have almost 13k prefixes in project and growing bandwidth of exchange.

ad 3 - There are 4 main agregation hubs located in: Warsaw, Katowice, Gdansk and Lodz. Moreover we have links to about 40 more cities and their local networks (sometimes they cover more, than just one city). Thus we may offer a link in +/- 100 points countrywide and up to our wide cooperation with polish national telecomunication oparator - the project offers possible access to K-IX in additional 300 points. And the project is growing.

ad 4 - As it is rather a confederation of exchange points rather than a single classical IX - we use different equipment. In Lodz I do use Cisco 6500/Sup720. The same is in Warsaw but sopported by some aggregation switches as this part of our project connects 4 data centers in Warsaw. In Katowice they have 2 main exchange points. And 1 in Gdansk.

In materials we call it (pol.) Rozproszony Węzeł Wymiany Ruchu IP what in translation would be (ang.)Wide/diffused Exchange IP Traffic Node. The project is run under polish National Chamber of Ethernet Communication (pol. KIKE) so in short we call our project K-IX = KIKE-IX. And it is one of the most dynamic exchange projects in Poland, because it's structure, nodes and connections are wide open, spread, build and maintained by local polish networks exactly where they are needed. It is because low costs of access are strongly supported by big number of polish prefixes and some cache services what allows our members to exchange 30-40% of ISP traffic by K-IX project.

Ad 5. The best contact is our NOC in Warsaw - noc@k-ix.pl. If there is a ned to contact any of local nodes - NOC will redirect you to it's admin.

So - it's K-IX explanatin in pill. ;-)