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Door een koperdiefstal in Armenië kregen eind maart drie grote netwerkproviders (ArmenTel, FiberNet Communication en GNC-Alfa) te maken met grootschalige uitval. Deze gebeurtenis onderstreepte de noodzaak en het belang van samenwerking tussen nationale en regionale leveranciers. De European Internet Exchange Association (Euro-IX) heeft daarop het initiatief genomen om de ervaring van AMS-IX in te zetten om de interconnectie van de Armeense Internet Exchange (ARMIX) te verbeteren. AMS-IX doneerde een Foundry BigIron 15000 switch zorgt voor betere ondersteuning van een schaalbaar aantal poorten en betere redundantie.
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AMS-IX donates equipment to the Armenian Internet Exchange to enhance national and regional Interconnection
Just a few months ago in late March 2011, Armenia suffered an outage of all 3 wholesale network providers (ArmenTel, FiberNet Communication and GNC-Alfa) due to an alleged search for copper by a 75-year-old woman in the neighboring state of Georgia.
All services were restored in a matter of hours but the incident highlighted the need and importance off the Armenian Internet Exchange, the requirement for a better collaboration of national and regional providers, and the need for ISP’s to make their interconnection more robust and resilient.
European Internet Exchange Association (
EURO-IX) took the initiative to find support for Armenia by bringing
AMS-IX experience in (Amsterdam Internet Exchange) and defining what support could be best offered.
After consultation with all parties, the donation of a Foundry BigIron 15000 switch was made by AMS-IX to support a scalable number of ports and better redundancy.
“As one of the largest IXs and with an increasingly public profile, we often get ‘consulted’ by start-up and developing exchanges for tips and tricks of the trade. A few years ago we introduced a support program called 'IX in a box' ”, said AMS-IX CEO Job Witteman.
The ‘IX in a box’ program was set up under the AMS-IX flag of enabling Internet progress for the “Good of the Internet" and to help build and support strong, well set-up exchanges that contribute to the resilience and stability of the Internet as a whole.
Secretary General at Euro-IX - Serge Radovcic explains: "The success of the Internet Exchange model has shown to diminish outages and bring about various economic, performance and stability benefits to national and regional providers”. He continues “AMS-IX, as one of the largest and very successful exchanges has a program in place specifically to help develop and support other exchanges around the world.”
Vahan Hovsepyan, Director of ARMIX (Armenian Internet Exchange) states, “Possibilities provided by the equipment donated to ARMIX gives us the opportunity to provide services not only to Armenian companies, but also to initiate regional cooperation projects, increasing the role of Armenian Internet Exchange and insuring the highest level of security and productivity''. He then added “We very much appreciate AMS-IX donation (of this equipment). It will definitely add value to our exchange, bring forth stability and help our economic objective of keeping 30% of local Internet traffic within Armenia.”
About AMS-IX
AMS-IX - Amsterdam Internet Exchange - is a neutral and independent Internet exchange providing services since the early 1990’s. AMS-IX is one of the largest Internet Interconnection Points worldwide. More than 430 Internet networks come together in Amsterdam from all over the world to exchange Internet traffic of over 1300 Gbps (1.3Terabit per second). The AMS-IX platform provides professional, high quality, non-blocking peering services for IP traffic with a diverse profile, be it regular IP data such as e-mail, but also video/TV, as well as voice. AMS-IX additionally hosts the first mobilepeering point worldwide, the Global GPRS Roaming Exchange (GRX) and the Mobile Data Exchange (MDX). AMS-IX recently launched 3 unique services including 100GE ports, an Inter-IPX service and is the first and only exchange to offer SLA’s.
More information on:
http://www.ams-ix.net
For more information about AMS-IX, please contact Cara Mascini
Tel: +31 20 305 89 99
Fax: +31 20 305 89 90
E-mail:
marketing@ams-ix.net
http://www.ams-ix.net
About Euro-IX
Euro-IX (European Internet Exchange Association) was formed in May 2001 with the intention to further develop, strengthen and improve the Internet Exchange Point (IXP) community. Today Euro-IX has 59 affiliated IXPs Operating more than 60 IXPs in Europe and 150 exchange points around the globe. More information on:
https://www.euro-ix.net/