Singapore Open Exchange www.sox.net.sg

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Singapore Open Exchange (www.sox.net.sg)
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Current Situation

• Network Layer-3
• STIX in Singapore for more than 5 years
• Starhub IX and other commercial transit
  providers/ISPs started operation about 2 years
  ago
• Exchange traffic via circuits terminated in ISP
  router at Layer-3
• Network Layer-2
• ATM exchange points eg. 1-Net
• Private peering via ATM PVCs
• Presents scalability issues lacks peering
  infrastructure
• No neutral IXP at Layer-2 in Spore

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Singapore Open IXP (SOX) Project

• Proposal to create the first neutral public IXP
• Open to all ISP/IXPs (both local and foreign),
  IDCs, Content Providers, Business Parks, etc
• Interconnects with non-commercial networks
  (SingAREN, NUSNET, MOEnet, Biopolis, etc)
• Aims/Motivations
• Localising traffic
• Lowering transit costs
• Neutral community approach
• Landing point for foreign IP networks
• Testbed for IPv6, IP multicast deployments or
  other new IP infrastructure technology
• Provision of Value Added Services for smaller
  ISPs (Akamai, Nomimum GNS, Web Proxy peering
  caches, etc)

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SOX Roles

• Ensure operational quality
• Promote bilateral and multilateral peering
• Promote expansion of IXP members
• Training and experience building
• Develop and deliver new service models

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Asia Pacific IXP Infrastructure

• Several initiatives to develop regional IXP
  infrastructure (e-ASEAN task force, ITU, etc)
• Abundant fibre capacities present in AP region
  with new cable networks C2C, APCN2, etc
• To improve connectivity among commercial and RE
  networks in AP region
• Avoids US-Centric routing, for example Singapore
  (SingAREN) to China (CERNET) routes via Chicago,
  likewise for SingAREN to APAN-JP
• Government agencies industry need to work
  together to develop AP IXP infrastructure
• Interested parties include China MII, SOX,
  Ausbone

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Architecture
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Configuration

• Cisco Catalyst 6500 Ethernet switch
• 10/100/1000 Mbps switch ports
• Cisco 5505 router for ATM-Ethernet Bridging
• Primary segment/VLAN for public peering
• Other segments/VLANs for IPv6, and IPv4
  multicast, private peering
• Space for partners to co-locate their routing
  equipment

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Operations

• Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (iDA)
  licensed Services-Based Operator (SBO)
• Cost minimised as part of community effort to
  encourage peering among ISPs
• Members only need to provide own backhaul
• Connectivity via any FBO or leased circuit
  provider (SingTel and Starhub)
• 1-Net ATM PVCs, and ATM-to-Ethernet bridging
  provided

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SOX IPv6

• Objectives
• To introduce operational IPv6 service, and to
  facilitate the connectivity and deployment of
  IPv6 networks in Singapore
• To operate IPv6 exchange point, and to
  interconnect with other IPv6 backbones around the
  world
• To learn from these early deployment exercises
  about the efforts/technologies needed for
  transiting from IPv4 to IPv6, i.e migration
  issues
• To lay the foundation for IPv6 commercialisation,
  and to provide a testbed for IPv6 applications

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Singapore IPv6 History

• Started in NUS IRDU in 1996 first ASEAN country
  to be connected to 6Bone.
• Allocated 6Bone address block 3ffe1600/24
• In 1999 SingAREN allocated production address
  block 20010208/35 (Currently, the only
  available IPv6 production address block in
  Singapore)
• Connected to 6Tap and 6NGIX, etc.

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To Participate

• Email enquiry_at_sox.net.sg
• URL www.sox.net.sg

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Thank You