Technical difficulties
We are experiencing an outage on our peering platform in Amsterdam. We are working on resolving the issue and will investigate the root cause. Apologies for the inconvenience.
AMS-IX Topology
AMS-IX Topology
AMS-IX is a distributed exchange, currently present at multiple independent colocation facilities in Amsterdam. Each site is equipped with one or more access devices to enable connections to the AMS-IX infrastructure. Colocation services for connected networks are available at all data centre facilities, these are not part of the AMS-IX services.
The current implementation of the AMS-IX peering platform uses an MPLS/VPLS infrastructure. This setup allows for a resilient and highly scalable infrastructure inherent to MPLS, while at the same time the interface towards the members and customers is still the common shared Layer 2 Ethernet platform.
Networks connect with either Gigabit Ethernet (GE), 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GE), 100 Gigabit Ethernet (100GE) or multiples of these on the access devices. These are Extreme MLX-8 PE routers for GE connections and Extreme MLX-16/MLX-32 or Extreme SLX-9850 PE routers for 10GE & 100GE connections. To provide more resilience in the connection of 10GE & 100GE connections to the platform, these are terminated on a Glimmerglass system 100 or 300 photonic cross-connect (PXC). The PXC connects the member router (at Layer 1) to one of the local PE routers and, if necessary, moves this connection to a backup router.
The core of the network is build around Extreme Networks SLX 9850 systems (P routers core-glo-205, core-dr1-405).
AMS-IX MPLS/VPLS platform Layer 1
The current AMS-IX setup for layer 1 is visualised below.
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