IX Updates
Tracking Indian IX Ecosystem

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• Mingling with IP networks for ~20 years• Building WebApps for ~10 years• Co-founder & CTO, Esto MediaI’m either pushing bits, oripping bits, so in-between thebits all the time.

( AS135817 )• Director, PeeringDB/@rahulmkhj

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What is IX Updates?

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What is IX Updates?
Quick Facts• A dashboard to visualise Indian IX ecosystem• Launched on 2nd July 2022
• Sourcing information from PeeringDB API• Putting daily view of the ecosystem to persistent

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How to access the project?
URL Please.
The Dashboard is publicly accessible on:https://ixupdates.abater.io

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What is the objective of this project?
Use Case: 1 /n
Keeps track of growth trends in the industry.

• How fast the IXP ecosystem in India is growing (or declining for that matter)**Stats were captured sometime in April 2024

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What is the objective of this project?

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Use Case: 2 /n
Tells if one IXP, over certain period of time, is attracting more ASNs than the others.

NIXI Mumbai**Stats were captured sometime in April 2024

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Extreme-IX Mumbai

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What is the objective of this project?

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Use Case: 3 /nKeeps track of how often a CDN (or any other asn) upgrades their capacity• Indicates their growth in the country in comparison to other networks.

Meta (AS32934)**Stats were captured sometime in April 2024

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Amazon (AS16509)

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What is the objective of this project?

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Use Case: 4 /n
Helps ISPs identify an exchange with maximum content available, at a glance

DE-CIX Mumbai**Stats were captured sometime in April 2024

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Where IXPs are present?
Facilities

147 facilities
spread over71 cities**Stats were captured sometime in April 2024

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How Large is the Ecosystem?
Present State

33

147

33Tbps+

IXPs

Total Facilities

Provisioned Capacity

894

1906

Networks

Interconnections**Stats were captured sometime in April 2024

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Top 10 IXPs by number of peers**Stats were captured sometime in April 2024

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Top 10 ASNs - Capacity across Indian IXPs
Capacity Distribution**Stats were captured sometime in April 2023

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How the Ecosystem has Evolved?
April 2023 - April* 2024
34000
25500

844

900

26,308G

675

17000

450

8500

225

0
Provisioned Capacity
02 Apr'23

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30
IXPsASNs
02 Apr'23

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Key Changes Since April 2023
Throwing out some numbers~7 Tbps

7 Tbps of additional capacity was provisioned across all IXPs in India

46 ASNs

46 new networks have joined the Indian IX ecosystem in last 8 months

3 IXPs3 new IXPs were launched in India

23 Facilities

Additional 23 facilities now have one or more IXP present

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What other information is available?

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Persisted Daily• Marketshare of each IXP in India• Capacity trend for IXPs

• Capacity share (%) of all ASN at
any given IXP• Capacity trend for ASNs

• ASNs peering with route-server• ASNs joined/left in last 30 days
• If a member ASN is an ISP or aCDN

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Work in progressThings we’re working on• Visual representation of the entire ecosystem• Make the platform multi-tenant.
• Time travel — to go back to any date in the history (not before 2ndJuly 2022) and see how the ecosystem looked back thenRahul Makhija - SANOG41 | INNOG7

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Thank You

Feedback / Requests
anything else you would like to see on the portal?
rahul@abater.io

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