NaMeX is a neutral, not-for-profit internet exchange point located in Rome, Italy that was founded in 1995. It has 38 members including large national ISPs, local ISPs, international carriers, and content providers. NaMeX provides peering and carrier interconnection services, exchanging over 12Gbps of traffic annually. Its services include public and private peering through VLANs, route server infrastructure, and additional services such as DNS replication and BGP monitoring tools.

1. 2010 Update
Flavio Luciani
flavio.luciani@namex.it
NaMeX
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NaMeX Overview (1)
- Neutral, member-based, not-for-profit IXP based
in Rome
- Founded in 1995, established as a consortium in
2001
- Counting 38 members
- Large National ISPs
- Local ISPs
- International carriers and CPs (Akamai)
- Research network
- http://www.namex.it/en/who/members
- Two main service categories
- Peering and other IP services
- Carrier interconnection services (physical)
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- 12Gbps of exchanged traffic in the last
year
- Member of Euro-IX association
- R&D partnerships with Roma 3 University
and The
Na7onal
Research
Council
(CNR)
- Trainings (ISC DNS&BIND course)
- Housing Italian Public Administration
Qualified Exchange Network (QXN)
NaMeX Overview (2)
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 Public and private peering, transit VLANs:
- Redundant high-end switching platform
- Members peering on public VLANs via BGPv4
- Private peerings and transit on dedicated VLANs
- Back-to-back interconnection
- Route Servers infrastructure
- IPv4/IPv6 support
- Multicast peering in a separate Vlan
- Info: http://www.namex.it/en/services/publicpeering
Peering & IP Services
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British Telecom Cogent Colt Telecom Eutelia Fastweb
Global Crossing Infracom Interoute MC-Link Retelit
Tata TelecomItalia Unidata Wind Telefonica (TIWS)
Carrier Services
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- Global DNS: F-root and J-root name servers anycast replicas
- Verisign RIRs (.com and .net TLDs)
- Out-of-band access
- AS112 server for catching private space DNS queries
- iBGPlay: monitoring of BGP paths and reachability in real time
- Several tools on Website:
- BGP aggregation
- IXPWatch
- Meeting/Workshop
- Info: http://www.namex.it/en/services/additional
Additional Services
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7. NaMeX & AMS-IX
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8. Meetings
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Thanks
Flavio Luciani
E-mail: flavio.luciani@namex.it
Web: www.namex.it
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