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On this page we show offerings of our participants that can benefit other current or future participants.

- Dutch peering
- Global transit
- Co-location
- BGP Routers
- Router Management
- AS Number
- IP Addresses
- National and regional leased lines
- Local optical fibers (Amsterdam region)
- Bandwidth to other International Internet Exchanges
- Usenet News feeds and access

Dutch peering

Open Peering interconnects between NL-ix, the Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) and the Groningen Internet Exchange (GN-IX) at Gigabit ethernet speed each.

The Open Peering Initiative provides FREE access from NL-ix to AMS-IX and GN-IX participants via it's Open MLPA (Multi Lateral Peering Agreement). This gives NL-ix participants free access to (currently) more then 20 AS's and over 300 routes. Optionally
Specs: unlimited upto exchange connection speed
Indication: free

Open Peering can provide primary and backup NL transit to AMS-IX, NL-ix en GN-IX (+/- 350 parties, 25.000 routes).
Specs: unlimited use up to exchange connection speed
Indication: at 100 Mbit/s € 450 (transit)

Email to info@openpeering.nl for more information.

Global transit

The following NL-ix members offer global Internet transit services.
CarrierEmail10 Mb/s100 Mb/s
Abovenetsales@abovenet.nl
Business Internet Trendsinfo@bit.nl
Carrier1harm.werkman@carrier1.nl
Cambriumsales@cambrium.nl
Co-Locate.nlsales@co-locate.nl€ 400,-€ 2.500,-
Flag Telecommbes@flagtelecom.com
Global Crossingroland.vrijheid@globalcrossing.com
ISP Servicessales@isp-services.nl€ 450,-€ 3.500,-
Joint Transitinfo@jointtransit.nl€ 200,-€ 1.000,-
KPN Euroringsb.c.vanopzeeland@kpn.com
NTT Europeglobalipsales@ntt.co.uk
Tiscali Internationaldeclercq@tiscali.net

Specs: quality (delay/packet loss) varies with price
Indication: +/- € 200,- per megabit, and lower at more megabits.

Other carriers that offer global transit are invited to inform us about their offerings, so we can add them here.

Co-location

Colocation services on NL-IX sites are provided by Interxion, Nikhef, Redbus Interhouse, SARA, Schuberg Philis, TeleCity, Globalswitch, Novaxess, Mediagateway and 19 inch colocation rackspace is available at all locations in several configurations; shelfs (5 HE), quarter racks (10 HE) and full racks (40 HE) with respectives prices at +/- € 200, 400 and 1.000 per month. Install fees can be up to € 2.000. Please contact the datacenters or us for exact details.

BGP Routers

Cisco

Low-cost default-routing BGP router
A Cisco BGP router that can handle a limited ammount of national peering routes (at least 5.000) and will use default routing to some transit provider for worldwide traffic.
Specs: Cisco 2621XM, IP Plus, 128 Mb, 30 Kpps, upto 15 Mbit/s (based on RFC standard 512 byte packets)
Indication: +/- € 3.750,-

Basic BGP router
A a Cisco router that can handle one full BGP routing table (is able to handle all 110.000 routes of the full worldwide routing table) and can handle multiple peerings.
Specs: Cisco 2651XM, IP Plus, 128 Mb, 40 Kpps, upto 20 Mbit/s.
Indication: +/- € 4.750,-

BGP router
A a Cisco router that can handle a two (primary and backup) full BGP routing tables and multiple peerings.
Specs: Cisco 2691XM, IP Plus, 256 Mb, 70 Kpps, upto 35 Mbit/s.
Indication: +/- € 7.000,-

OpenSource based

A PC with Quagga (formerly Zebra) or OpenBGPD
Several small ISP's use a standard PC with Linux or OpenBSD and Quagga (formerly Zebra) or OpenBGPD BGP software. This is a low-cost solution provding a full BGP router, but requires extensive technical knowlegde of Linux/OpenBSD and effort in getting to know the Quagga (Zebra) or OpenBGPD software.
Specs: depends on specs PC
Indication: +/- € 1.500,-

Rebelrouter
A Linux based router using flash (no harddisk) and a simple graphical userinterface (incl. web-access). Requires no specific Linux knowledge.
Specs: RR1000, 256 Mb, 2 PCI, 1u, 3 * 10/100 eth, 90 Kpps, upto 45 Mbit/s.
Indication: +/- € 3.150,-

Foundry

Foundry FastIron 4802-PREM
A fixed configuration BGP4 router Supports VLAN's, rich QoS features, wirespeed rate limiting and traffic accounting, all Gigabit mini-GBIC interfaces, Cisco-IOS alike command line interface. Optional (hot-swappable) redundant power supply.
Specs: 48 port 10/100, 2 port mini-GBIC, 1.5u, 10.1 Mpps, upto 34 Gbit/s.
Indication: +/- € 11.655,- (refurbished +/- € 2.000,-)

Foundry BigIron 4000
A Foundry BigIron 4000 router offers wirespeed routing on multiple gigabit ethernet interfaces in a chassis architecture.
Indication: +/- € 23.000,- (refurbished +/- € 6.000,-)

Juniper

Juniper M5/M7i
A Juniper M5 or M7i router has a chassis configuration and is specialized on routing in hardware and offers wirespeed routing on a gigabit ethernet interface.
Indication: +/- € 25.000,- (refurbished +/- € 18.000,-)

Juniper J4350
A Juniper J4350 router handles all traffic in CPU, but does offer the advantages of the Juniper JunOS operating systems and can support upto gigabit traffic speed at average packet sizes.
Indication: +/- € 7.000,-

Hardware distributors and ISP's that offer BGP routers are requested to send us your offerings, so we can add your company and offering here.

Router Management

For parties that need help with initial configuration and installation of their BGP router, Open Peering offers a router config and install service that includes BGP setup.
Specs: fixed price
Indication: € 900,- (€ 300,- discount for router bought from Open Peering)

If you don't want to manage your BGP router yourself (yet) Open Peering offers a router management (8*5) service and a emergency router config support (24*7) service.
Specs: fixed price
Indication: € 150,- and € 375,-

AS Number

For registering an Autonomous System (AS) number either become RIPE member/LIR (there are initial and yearly fee's of a few thousand euro involved with that) or contact your (current or future) transit provider and have him register an AS number for you. Open Peering can also register an AS number for you.
Specs: fixed price
Indication: € 350,- initial plus € 250,- per year

IP Addresses

To guarantee global routing, you either need a block of at least 256 IP addresses (/24) yourself, or need a transit provider that aggregates your smaller block of IP addresses in a BGP announcement of themselves of at least that size.

For registering IP addresses either become RIPE member/LIR (there are initial and yearly fee's of a few thousand euro involved with that) or contact your (current or future) transit provider and have him register a block of IP addresses for you. Open Peering can also register an IP addresses for you.
Specs: fixed price
Indication: € 650,- initial plus € 150,- per year per Class C

National and regional leased lines

In Holland there are few providers of leased lines and other forms of bandwidth (e.g. VLANs) that can offer national coverage:

Prices for national leased lines start at around € 1.000 for 2 Mbit/s and € 4.500 for 34 Mbit/s, and ofcourse lower as distance goes down.

There are numerous providers that can provide local or regional leased lines in the Amsterdam region. This included companies like Colt, Euro Fiber, Priority Telecom, Versatel, Worldcom, GlobalCrossing (roland.vrijheid@globalcrossing.com), etc.

If you are a carrier and have concrete offerings for local, regional or national leased lines, please inform us and we will add you here as example.

Local optical fibers (Amsterdam region)

The following parties offer optical fibers in the Amsterdam region and some also in other parts of the country:

If you have concrete offerings for optical fibers, please inform us and we will add you here.

Bandwidth to other International Internet Exchanges

The following parties offer ethernet, wavelength or SDH bandwidth from Amsterdam to other International Internet Exchanges:

Usenet News feeds and access

The following parties offer Usenet News access and/or feeds for ISP's: