Steps to Building the Next Generation Internet Exchange
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2025 4:14 am
Internet Exchange of the Future: Scalable, Automated, Secure
21.02.2024
As products and services become increasingly digital and the economy becomes increasingly dependent on data exchange, high-performance, resilient and secure interconnections are becoming an increasingly important factor in economic success, writes Dr. Thomas King, CTO and board member of DE-CIX, in Network Computing.
Continued technological advancements in interconnection platforms are needed to meet the challenges posed by the immersive Internet for infrastructure providers. Significantly higher bandwidth and even lower latency are just two of the ingredients for the Internet of tomorrow. To achieve this, Internet Exchanges (IXs) of the future must achieve greater scalability and functionality with the latest hardware, as well as increased automation to make interconnection as simple as possible for connected companies. They must also establish a dense geographic presence to serve the needs of globally operating companies by providing peering, cloud, and other interconnection services with the lowest possible latency. All while maintaining the highest levels of security and resiliency for this critical infrastructure.
The next-generation IX platform, which chile mobile database ultimately enable ultra-low-latency data exchange, must be fully automated, highly secure, and resilient. Several countries and IX operators are showing promising progress toward the goal of next-generation IX, but all of them still have a long way to go to meet all of the points outlined below.
1) Automation of connections, maintenance and statistics
Robots for fast and easy physical connections. To minimize manual labor in data centers with intensive connections, robotic switches should be installed to simplify all connection elements as much as possible.
Monitoring and statistics as the next steps in automation. While interconnection APIs are already a given for large IX operators, there remains a need for more monitoring and statistics information that customers can access via a self-service portal. Alerts via the API and self-service portal should provide information on traffic anomalies. Customers should also be able to integrate machine-readable maintenance messages into their automation chains.
21.02.2024
As products and services become increasingly digital and the economy becomes increasingly dependent on data exchange, high-performance, resilient and secure interconnections are becoming an increasingly important factor in economic success, writes Dr. Thomas King, CTO and board member of DE-CIX, in Network Computing.
Continued technological advancements in interconnection platforms are needed to meet the challenges posed by the immersive Internet for infrastructure providers. Significantly higher bandwidth and even lower latency are just two of the ingredients for the Internet of tomorrow. To achieve this, Internet Exchanges (IXs) of the future must achieve greater scalability and functionality with the latest hardware, as well as increased automation to make interconnection as simple as possible for connected companies. They must also establish a dense geographic presence to serve the needs of globally operating companies by providing peering, cloud, and other interconnection services with the lowest possible latency. All while maintaining the highest levels of security and resiliency for this critical infrastructure.
The next-generation IX platform, which chile mobile database ultimately enable ultra-low-latency data exchange, must be fully automated, highly secure, and resilient. Several countries and IX operators are showing promising progress toward the goal of next-generation IX, but all of them still have a long way to go to meet all of the points outlined below.
1) Automation of connections, maintenance and statistics
Robots for fast and easy physical connections. To minimize manual labor in data centers with intensive connections, robotic switches should be installed to simplify all connection elements as much as possible.
Monitoring and statistics as the next steps in automation. While interconnection APIs are already a given for large IX operators, there remains a need for more monitoring and statistics information that customers can access via a self-service portal. Alerts via the API and self-service portal should provide information on traffic anomalies. Customers should also be able to integrate machine-readable maintenance messages into their automation chains.