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 use of Consortium interconnection infrastructure requires the payment of a Service fee. The amount of the fee is determined according to the type of options requested (peering, marketplace, transport): pending the new platform, which will allow greater flexibility, the same scheme as last year has been maintained.

In addition to the new fees, discounts and promotions were introduced.
For the peering port and the transport port there is a discount for multiple ports on the same PoP (same capacity and type): 10% discount on additional ports of the same type; 50% on port fees for academic and research institutions.
In addition, there is a 50% discount promotion for new ports and 50% discount on the fee variation in the event of an upgrade (valid for the first calendar year).

As regards the marketplace, there is a 10% discount for multiple ports on the same PoP (same capacity and type), on additional ports of the same type. The separate category was introduced to promote the sale of services on our infrastructure.

You can consult the fees and discounts in detail at this link.

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TOP-IX is on Service DB, the first portal developed in Italy and dedicated to the research and offer of Wholesale services.

TOP-IX is the first IXP participating in the project launched by Namex at the beginning of November.aspetta
The goal is to have a neutral place where members of the IXPs can exhibit their services, promote offers and easily get in touch with other companies operating in the telecommunications sector.

The TOP-IX infrastructure allows, through private VLANs, the connection between those who offer and those who buy the service, acting as a simple technological intermediary. The contract takes place between the consortium members, without any commercial intermediation, but with the involvement of the operational structure in configurating the necessary VLANs and ports. Consortium members are free to choose whether to sell / buy services on a single port (appropriately sized) or on dedicated ports.

“Namex created Service DB to make it available to the community of Italian and international IXPs and Internet Service Providers – says Maurizio Goretti, CEO Namex -. TOP-IX is the first IXP besides Namex to be present on the portal, their adhesion confirms the interest in this new tool. We hope that soon other IXPs will join the initiative to make the portal more and more useful and interesting for ISPs”

Andrea Casalegno, TOP-IX Executive Director, explains: “TOP-IX has been making a Marketplace available to its members for a long time. This allowed the growth of many local operators, benefiting from the capillary presence of TOP-IX in the territory. Exposing these services on ServiceDB will increase the possibilities for local operators and provide larger players with an additional market opportunity. We are therefore particularly happy to use the portal created by Namex and to contribute to its development”

Some of the services offered are, for example:

• direct and fast Ethernet interconnections, point-to-point, point-to-multipoint, or VPLS, both national and international, in order to connect company offices geographically distributed anywhere in the world;
• ethernet interconnections to the major Clouds (such as AWS, Azure, Softlayer etc …) to improve performance compared to their normal Internet connection and increase security from DDoS attacks;
• remote peering services to other Italian and foreign IXPs;
• protection services from DDoS attacks.

For more information, you can write to the address sales@top-ix.org.

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TOP-IX Consortium Assembly approved new Fees for 2019.

First news is related in joining the Consortium with a rebate to 1.000 of Joining Fee (Una-tantum), while Membership Fee (Annual) has been maintained to actual level. More detail are available at this link.
At same time recurrent part of Service Fees related to peering ports for Members were adjusted. Moreover port activations charges has been canceled and a promotion is available for new ports or upgrades.
Activation charged has been canceled also on marketplace ports and VLANs with a promotion on new activations and upgrades.

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