peering

NIXI expansion & some thoughts

Anurag Bhatia
Background Lately, NIXI has been making a bit of news in the Indian peering ecosystem. NIXI for those who may not be aware is the National Internet Exchange of India. It was founded in 2003 with the idea to provide inter-connection layer 2 peering fabric for local Indian ISPs. They were supposed to ensure domestic Indian traffic is exchanged within India and not outside of India. In my previous post, I did cover how that is not true for now.

Why Indian internet traffic routes from outside of India?

Anurag Bhatia
After my last post about home networking, I am jumping back into global routing. More specifically how Indian traffic is hitting the globe when it does not need to. This is an old discussion across senior management folks in telcos, policymakers, and more. It’s about “Does Indian internet traffic routes from outside of India?” and if the answer is yes then “Why?” and “How much?” It became a hot topic, especially after the Snowden leaks.

Basic traffic engineering for maximising peering traffic

Anurag Bhatia
Hello world from Gujarat! This is my 3rd visit to Gujarat. :) Coming to today’s post: I have noticed ISPs doing really crazy things to maximise traffic on peerings and IXPs. Some of those are bad and some are very bad. Additionally I came across this comment and thought to put this quick post. Example of some bad ways to increase IXP traffic: Using upstream’s ASN to keep AS path shorter (yes, believe me I have seen that!

Regulating for Inclusion workshop

Anurag Bhatia
Last week I visited Delhi and spent some time at the “Regulating for Inclusion” workshop. I usually do not attend non-NOG events but this one seemed interesting and was relatively easy to attend as was in Delhi. Discussion on backhaul There is quite a bit of talk as well as focus on the backhaul capacity but somehow discussion missed a very important element of the picture - Internet Exchange Points (IXP).

NIXI finally removing the x-y charge!

Anurag Bhatia
It’s kind of fun times in India with many IX’es showing up and now NIXI finally removing their traffic wise charge. I came across this email which they sent to their member networks recently: From: I X <[ix@nixi.in](mailto:ix@nixi.in)\> Sent: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 12:48:31 GMT+0530 To: "members " <[members@nixi.in](mailto:members@nixi.in)\> Cc: "[ceo@nixi.in](mailto:ceo@nixi.in)" <[ceo@nixi.in](mailto:ceo@nixi.in)\> Subject: Change in Data Transfer Charges (X-Y) Dear Members, In reference to the Board's direction to reduce the current data transfer (X-Y) charges from Re.