Dear peers,
We're happy to share with you some technical news for the last quarter of 2024!
News
Telehouse 2: Additional edge device, supporting 800GE interfaces
Telehouse 2 remains the most important PoP in the France-IX infrastructure with around half of the traffic exchanged. To support the growth of this PoP, a new edge device, a Nokia 7750 SR-1x-48D, was installed at the end of the year. Dual-attached to P routers, it will allow client distribution across multiple edge devices within this PoP. It supports 400G and 800G interfaces, ensuring it can meet future needs for years to come.
Freepro MRS1 : Replacement of a legacy edge device, a 400G device installed
An aging Juniper EX9214, in service for over 9 years at Freepro MRS1 PoP, has been replaced with a modern Nokia 7750 SR-1-48D, marking another step in network infrastructure modernisation. Key improvements include:
- Compact design: A 17RU device have been replaced with a 2RU one, freeing up significant rack space.
- Efficiency gains: Power consumption reduced by 75%
- 400G support: For customers demand but also for backbone, enabling substantial cost savings in optical transport
- Enhanced management: Installation of managed PDUs and structured cabling management
With this deployment, 8 PoPs now support 400GE technology!
Backbone upgrade capacity: DRT PAR2 & TH2
- DRT PAR2: After having installed a 400G linecard during last quarter, 400G ZR optics have been configured to increase capacity on one path, reaching 800G.
- Telehouse 2: Capacity between P routers and one of the largest edge routers has been increased to 2 * 1.2Tbps.
Hosting IN2P3 : Hosting space optimization at IN2P3
Two racks have been fully decommissioned, reducing the footprint and optimizing hosting space. The customers previously hosted in these racks have been consolidated onto other existing racks within the same PoP.
Figures
A few figures about Q4-2024:
New customer ports (including upgrades) Q4-2024: More than 2 Tbps of capacity connected and first 400G customer’s ports activated!
- 10G: 21 ports
- 100G: 10 ports
- 400G: 2 ports
Availability during Q4-2024:
- Lille: 100%
- Lyon: 99,978%
- Marseille: 100%
- Paris: 100%
- Toulouse: 100%
NOC service Q4-2024:
Outages:
- Lyon/AURA - 11th of November 2024: An outage occured during the night of November 11th. 31 clients connected to the satellite devices of this router experienced a service disruption during 32 minutes. A software upgrade was performed on the router to address and resolve the issue following vendor's advices.
Upcoming projects and operations
- Equinix PA7: Replacement of a legacy Juniper edge device by a Nokia 7750 supporting 400G ports, scheduled for 15th of January.
- Marseille: Introduction of P router (Q1-2025) : 2 Cisco 8201-24H8FH will be installed
- Freepro Rock (Lyon): This PoP will be closed soon. The few remaining clients have been supported in finding migration solutions, either through resellers or by offering alternative PoPs where France-IX operates in the Lyon area.
- Multipass: Coming soon, a new option available on the local peering LAN, providing simplified access to remote regions.
If you want more technical information, you can follow our large panel of twitter accounts (@as51706 for Paris, @as42064 for Marseille, @as43100 for Lyon, @as47184 for Toulouse and @as62228 for Lille).
Happy peering with us,
France-IX technical team
