# France-IX

France-IX is a Paris-based Internet exchange point (IXP) founded in June 2010 as a membership organisation. As of 21 July 2021 it interconnects more than 496 members, making it the largest IXP in France.

## History

France-IX was initially discussed by Raphael Maunier (then with Neo Telecoms) and Maurice Dean (then working for Google) in 2008 in Dublin. The project of setting up the internet exchange, initially called PhoenIX, was launched in December 2008. Wouter van Hulten (working for Interxion) proposed the creation of a new association named France-IX in May 2009, to unite the various IXP activities in Paris at the time under one organisation. Christian Kaufmann (working for Akamai) and Nicolas Strina (then working for Jaguar Network) soon joined the initiative.
Following the presentation, a survey was sent to the community of internet networks whose results were published during the FRnOG 14 in June 2009. Around that time, the working group got the official financial and logistics support from Jaguar Network, Google, Akamai, Interxion and Neo Telecoms and was renamed France-IX.
The first international presentation of this project was made during RIPE 59 in Lisbon.

## Organisation

France-IX is composed of a non-profit association where each member holds one vote, and a commercial company, 100% owned by the association, in charge of daily operations. When a network subscribes to France-IX services, it becomes a de facto member of the association and holds the right to vote during the general assemblies. There are currently 496 members.
As of July 26, 2021, France-IX has eight board members, (Stéphane Bortzmeyer, Philippe Duby, Christian Kaufmann, Florence Lavroff, Sarah Nataf, Rebecca Stanic, Mark Tinka, Gregoir Villain). France-IX has 28 employees.

## Network

As of July 26, 2021, France-IX network has 24 points of presence (PoP).
* Equinix-Telecity PA6 Condorcet
* Equinix-Telecity PA7 Courbevoie
* Scaleway Datacenter DC2 Vitry-sur-Seine
* Scaleway Datacenter DC3 Vitry-sur-Seine
* Interxion PAR1 Aubervilliers
* Interxion PAR2 Aubervilliers
* Interxion PAR5 Saint-Denis
* Telehouse 2 Paris
* Telehouse 3 Magny-les-Hameaux
* Data4 Nozay
* Interxion MRS1 Marseille
* Interxion MRS2 Marseille
* Jaguar Network MRS01 Marseille
* LyonIX 1 Villeurbanne
* LyonIX 2 Vénissieux
* LyonIX 3 Limonest
* LyonIX 4 Collombier-Saugnieu
* LyonIX 5 Bron
* LyonIX 6 Lyon
* LyonIX 7 Lyon
* LyonIX 8 Saint-Trivier-sur-Moignans
* GrenoblIX 1 Cogent, 33 rue Joseph Chanrion, 38000 Grenoble
* GrenoblIX 2 Eolas, 73 rue du Général Mangin, 38000 Grenoble
* AnnecIX 1 Shelter SYANE, 2-8 rue des Garennes, 74960 Annecy

## Ports of connection

Services are available through two types of ports and several bandwidth options.
* Port
* 10 Gbit/s
* 100 Gbit/s
* 400 Gbit/s

## Services

France-IX offers the following professional services:
* Public peering: Unicast & multicast IPv4, unicast IPv6
* Interconnections with 5 internet exchange point in France, in Italy and in Luxembourg
* Private peering, multipass peering, PNI VLAN, PNI WAVE, Cloud access
* NTP Synchronization
* Routes servers (with the communities feature)
* Webportal: private login per member, personal detailed traffic statistics.
* 24/7 NOC

## Community

France-IX community comes from all around the world. Any organisation which owns an Autonomous System Number (also known as ASN) can be connected to France-IX. The connected members of the internet exchange point have various profiles:
* Operators / Services Providers / Internet Access Providers
* CDN (Content Delivery Network)
* Hosting companies
* Cloud providers
* Gamers
* Online media
* Corporations
* DNS
* Search engine

## Partners

France-IX concluded five interconnections with other internet exchanges to foster the exchange of internet traffic in France and Europe.
* SFINX based in Paris and operated by the French academic network (RENATER)
* Lyonix based in Lyon, France, and operated by Rezopole
* LU-CIX based in Luxemburg
* TouIX based in Toulouse, France
* TopIX based in Torino, Italy
In 2012, France-IX rolled out a reseller program and counts seven resellers as of August 1, 2015.

## Events

* France-IX was the host for the 26th Euro-IX Forum, which took place between 12 April 2015 and 14 April 2015 in Marseille.
* France-IX led three training sessions to help Comoros and Guinea build their own national internet exchange points.