We are pleased to announce the new Service Fees for the use of the interconnection infrastructure of the TOP-IX Consortium in 2024.

The activation of the ports is free for the consortium members. For peering services, non-consortium members can request the activation of 10G ports (activation at 1000 euros and annual fee at 2,000 euros) or 100G ports (activation at 2,000 euros and annual fee at 4,800 euros).

Some novelties for peering bands: the annual fee reduces for consortium members, while non-consortium members can benefit from the 5, 10, 20, 40 and 100 Gbps bands, paying an annual fee that ranges from 6,400 to 33,000 euros.

We also reduce the costs for the Marketplace. Regarding transport, we confirm a 50% discount on canons for Academic and Research Entities.

A novelty is represented by the Ethernet point-to-point connectivity service between nodes of Turin and Milan.

You can find all the novelties and a detailed description of the services at this link.

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GTT is active on the TOP-IX Marketplace, through which it can sell its services to other consortium members that are certified to the interconnection platform.

The Marketplace represents a flexible way to sell or buy services, such as IP Transit or security services, such as mitigation from DDoS attacks.

Attestation to the TOP-IX fabric allows quick access to the desired service by simply configurating a VLAN between the seller and the buyer.

Our plans for automation will enhance flexibility even further, and we will provide additional details about them in due course.

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Last week, in Rome, the kick-off meeting of DOME – A Distributed Open Marketplace for Europe Cloud and Edge Services was held in person.

The project, financed under the European Digital Europe Program, will take the form of a federated collection of marketplaces connected to a shared digital catalogue of cloud and edge services.

DOME will rely on the adoption of common open standards for the description of cloud and edge services and service offerings as well as their access through a shared catalogue. It will enable access through a single EU portal for cloud users, to an online catalogue of existing cloud-to-edge based service offerings, that are compliant with a pre-defined set of EU rules and requirement.

During the event, partners presented their technological contributions to the DOME infrastructure and their vision of the objectives to be achieved. The TOP-IX Consortium aims to propose its services on the DOME platform, with the aim of initiating and prmoting the creation of a “neutral fabric” on a European scale.

Finally, noteworthy is the presence of CSI Piemonte, as the only representative of the Public Administration, destined to pave the way for other European public entities, given the importance of service certification for the PA.

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The TOP-IX Consortium, as a Day-one member of Gaia-X and founding member of Structura-X, the Gaia-X lighthouse project involving 28 industrial entities from 10 European countries with the common goal of building a federated infrastructure for the European cloud, participated in the recent Gaia-X Summit 2022.

TOP-IX at Gaia-X Summit 2022

As part of Structura-X, together with Engineering Ingegneria Informatica Spa, Aruba SpA, Politecnico di Torino, CSI-Piemonte, IONOS and DE-CIX, TOP-IX implemented and presented a PoC of an Internet Exchange and Cloud Service Provider federation as an enabling technology for extending Kubernetes clusters across different administrative domains.

The Internet Exchange federation project has attracted considerable interest from a number of European stakeholders and proves to be an important driver in propelling TOP-IX and Internet Exchanges toward a new paradigm, in which the network platform becomes an ecosystem for delivering distributed, scalable, and resilient cloud services. Adoption of the Federation Services framework will also ensure compliance with Gaia-X governance and enrich the range of cloud and connectivity services that TOP-IX, its consortium members and other IXs can deliver and consume on the federated infrastructure.

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TOP-IX network freeze is scheduled from next Dec 24th 2022 to Jan 8th 2023.

For any new or upgrade request before the holiday season, please contact us asap at amministrazione@top-ix.org.

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The TOP-IX Consortium will take part at Eurovision Song Contest, alongside the City of Turin. In collaboration with Iren and CSI, TOP-IX will design and build the infrastructure to ensure the interconnection to the Internet network, with a 24 hour presence during the event.

In detail, TOP-IX will provide the wi-fi coverage of three areas located between the Pala Alpitour and the Eurovision village, with a guarantee of simultaneous interconnection of 1250 wi-fi users, with a minimum guaranteed bandwidth of 550 Mbps. Through the fiber optic infrastructure of Iren Energia S.p.A., TOP-IX will realize the interconnection to the Internet network at 10 Gbps. In addition, TOP-IX will activate the passive optical fiber that interconnects the various areas and the infrastructure dedicated to access control systems.

TOP-IX will also be responsible for the realization of the authentication system, natting and integration with the existing system at Pala Alpitour and the supply of 4000 scratch cards with personalization, for all those accredited to the event.

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The new Service Fees have been approved for the use of the interconnection infrastructures of the TOP-IX Consortium. The amount of the fee is determined according to the type of options requested (peering, marketplace, transport).

The activation fee is included in the annual fee, it must be paid only in case of upgrade of an existing port.

In addition to the new fees, discounts and promotions were introduced.

• 10% discount starting from the second port of the same type, on the same node;
• 50% discount on the annual fee in case of activation of “Peering” and “Transport” ports, with an overall increase in the annual fee on the node;
• 50% discount on the annual fee increase due to the upgrade, in the event of activation of “Peering” and “Transport” ports, with an overall increase in the annual fee on the node.

To have more details it is possible to consult TOP-IX website.

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European cloud providers have launched an initiative to build common infrastructure services that meet Gaia-X requirements. Around 20 companies, including TOP-IX, as interconnection services provider, have agreed to make their services Gaia-X compliant.
The Lighthouse Structura-X project complements existing industry-specific lighthouse initiatives for the automotive sector (Catena-X), agriculture (AgriGaia) and finance (EuroDat). Initial certified offerings are expected to be ready by the middle of next year.

The initiative emerged from the recent Gaia-X Summit in Milan in November. There, then German Economics Minister Peter Altmaier called for Gaia-X-compatible infrastructure to be built in Europe alongside industry services. In coordination with the Gaia-X foundation AISBL, seven European providers initially agreed on the common goal:

/ Atos
/ Aruba.it
/ DE-CIX
/ Deutsche Telekom
/ Engineering
/ Noovle
/ TOP-IX

In the meantime, other companies* from all over Europe have joined. Their common goal is to shape their existing infrastructure services into an eco-system for European data sovereignty. An overarching European cloud infrastructure is being created. Users will be able to test and deploy their services and data rooms in Gaia-X-approved infrastructure.

Structura-X will work closely with Gaia-X AISBL, which among other things defines the technical framework for data sovereignty. At the same time, Structura-X will enable the necessary scale for new cross-sector and cross-country collaboration in the cloud. This will address the fragmentation of the European cloud market.

*Other members of Lighthouse Structura-X are: AssoSoftware, Citynetwork, CS Group, CSI, EBRC, Fabasoft, KPN, Next Layer, Opennebula, OSISM, OVH, ThreeFold Tech, United Group.

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Nokia will supply 400GE IP routing platforms to enable TOP-IX to scale its regional interconnection and peering infrastructure both directly and through collaborations with partners across Europe. Along with expanding the geographical reach and capacity of its services, the solution will provide TOP-IX with enhanced network automation and operational capabilities to improve time to market for its customers.

TOP-IX will deploy the Nokia 7250 Interconnect Router (IXR)-X1 platforms with 400GE network interfaces to expand and upgrade its network to offer high speed IP routing for interconnection, peering and access to cloud services. The routers will be deployed in TOP-IX locations to increase the geographical scale, reach and capacity of its services.

The platforms enable TOP-IX to support services at speeds of up to 400GE with the ability to seamlessly increase capacity in the future.

The solution will also allow TOP-IX to enable secure cloud services over the IP routing solution, allowing its customers to maintain data sovereignty.

An investment to grow in terms of capacity

«We chose to make a significant investment in Nokia technology because it perfectly meets the requirements of our interconnection services on a geographically distributed platform – Davide Calonico, President of TOP-IX said – The new platform will allow us to introduce automation for the deployment of current services and all future services that may be enabled. In addition, it will ensure that we grow in terms of capacity in order to meet the increases in traffic expected in the near future»

«TOP-IX is a major regional Internet Exchange Provider and is expanding its regional interconnection capabilities to meet the needs of its customers as they embrace digital and cloud technologies – Manuel Ortiz Fernandez, Senior Vice President of EMEA Webscale business at Nokia, explained – We are pleased that TOP-IX has chosen Nokia 400GE IP routing technology to enhance its infrastructure to support the needs of businesses and consumers in the region»

Nokia 7250 IXR platforms running the Service Router Operating System (SR OS) are purpose-built to deliver multi-terabit-scale interconnectivity within data centers and across WANs. They offer exceptional networking performance and reliability and will enable TOP-IX to meet increasing traffic and service demands as its networking needs grow and change.

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The Euro-IX 2020 Report aims at give an overview of the current status of IXP deployment in Europe including.

The number of operational IXPs in Europe has increased by 87.5% over the past 10 years, going from 136 in 2010, to 255 in 2020. 2020 saw significant growth for IXPs, partially due to the number of IXPs added to the IXPDB, indicating better reporting of active IXPs (the growth of 52 IXPs in 2020 includes both newly established IXPs but also IXPs that were only identified by Euro-IX in 2020).

Traffic growth in the last 10 years

The average number of IXPs we collected data from was 56. These include Euro-IX members and “sub-members”, i.e. other IXPs or PoPs operated by our members in Europe.

As clearly visible from the second diagram, the growth in traffic peaks has been constant over the past 10 years and has seen a significant surge since 2016.

The report can be read here.

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