NL-ix Exchange

Public Peering

The NL-ix Internet Exchange is a shared and distributed infrastructure where ISP's can negotiate peering and exchange mutual Internet traffic. Local peering improves performance and saves bandwidth and inherently money on International transit capacity.

NL-ix offers Internet Exchange connections at several Dutch datacenters. Ports are available at 100 Mbit/s, 1.000 Mbit/s and 10 Gbit/s speeds. Access to the IPv4 peering VLAN is included in the port price.

Pricing

Product	Speed	Datacenter	Standard	Max. distance	Cable	Connector	Initial	Monthly
Public Peering	100 Mbit/s	Any	100Base-TX (fast ethernet)	100 m	Cat5 UTP	RJ45	250,- Euro	100,- Euro
	1.000 Mbit/s		1000Base-SX (850 nm)	220 m	Multimode (62.5/125 µm)	SC/PC or LC	500,- Euro	350,- Euro
			1000Base-LX (1310 nm)	10~20 km	Singlemode	SC/PC or LC	1.000,- Euro
Core Peering	10 Gbit/s	Nikhef	10Gbase-LR (1310 nm)	10 km	Singlemode	SC/PC	1.000,- Euro	1.000,- Euro
		SARA					1.500,- Euro	1.050,- Euro
		Telecity1					3.000,- Euro	1.500,- Euro
		Redbus, Telecity2					3.000,- Euro	1.750,- Euro
		Other Amsterdam sites	10Gbase-ER (1550 nm)	40 km	Singlemode	SC/PC	5.500,- Euro	1.750,- Euro
		Mediagateway					6.500,- Euro	3.250,- Euro

Save costs on International traffic

By peering on NL-ix, an ISP can locally offload traffic with a national destination that is behind antoher ISP on NL-ix. Each packet that can be delivered over NL-ix directly saves bandwidth and inherently money on International transit.

Shorter routes, lower delay, less congestion

If Internet traffic is routed via expensive International transit connections, cost is not the only issue. Traffic will also be hit with a roundtrip delay of around 100 milliseconds (ms) and possibly substially higher in case of congestion.

By local peering on NL-ix traffic can be routed with a delay of 1 ms or less. Considering the bandwidth of NL-ix and NL-ix access ports, congestion is very improbable. As the route a packet takes over NL-ix is substantially shorter (there are less 'hops' in the path), the risk of instabilities and loss of the packet on the way is minimized,

Reliable

NL-ix infrastructure is based on dedicated fibers between the NL-ix datacenters. All switches and fibers are monitored permanently. In case irregularities or outages NL-ix maintainers are automatically signaled. Maintainers are availble for customer calls 24 hours a day through different shifts.

Help with peering

As setting up peerings with other ISP's is essential for the effectivity of a NL-ix connection, NL-ix supports connectees in this process. On the NL-ix website a secured list of email adresses of all member ISP's peering coordinators is offered. Furthermore on the exchange a optional multi-lateral peering (MLPA) is in place (operated by the Open Peering Initiative). On NL-ix the MLPA gives you free access to all other members via a single peering agreement and a single peering session (BGP4).