Presentation by Dr. Yuzo Koga at APNIC 46 on Thursday, 13 September 2018.

1. APIX update
at AMM
13 Sep 2018
APIX Steering Committee

2. What is APIX?
• Asia-Pacific Internet Exchange
–An association of
Internet Exchange Providers
in Asia-Pacific region
•Started in 2010
•a member of IX Foundation
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3. • Doing the same business in each country/economy
• Having almost the same kind of issues
• Worth creating an IXP community
to share information and experiences about
technical, operational, and business issues and its solutions
regarding Internet Exchange
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Why an association for IXP in Asia Pacific?

4. APIX Steering Committee
• SC members
– Chairperson: Katsuyasu Toyama -- JPNAP (JP)
– Secretary: Ajai Kumar -- NIXI (IN)
– Treasurer: Vijayakumar Sethuraman -- Equinix (AP)
– Meeting Arrangement: Zulfadly Syam -- IIX (ID)
– Website Management: Harijanto Pribadi -- IIX (ID)
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Toyama AjaiVijay ZulHarijanto

5. APIX Members
• 27 IXPs, from 17 countries and economies (+2 IXPs increased)
– Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia,
Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Nepal, New Zealand, Philippine, Singapore,
Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam
VNIX
SOX
IIX
NZIX
TPIX
CNX
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Ryukyu-IX
TWIX

6. 27 APIX members
– AMS-IX Hong Kong (HK)
– BBIX (JP)
– BDIX (BD)
– BKNIX (TH)
– CHN-IX (CN)
– CNX (KH)
– DIX-IE (JP)
– Equinix (HK, JP, SG, AU)
– HKIX (HK)
– IIX (ID)
– IX-Australia (AU, NZ)
– JPIX (JP)
– JPNAP (JP)
– KINX (KR)
– Megaport (AU, HK, SG, NZ)
– MumbaiIX (IN)
– MyIX (MY)
– NIXI (IN)
– NP-IX (NP)
– NZIX (NZ)
– PHOpenIX (PH)
– Ryukyu-IX (JP)
– SGIX (SG)
– SOX (SG)
– TPIX (TW)
– TWIX (TW)
– VNIX (VN)
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7. Summary of APIX meeting #18
Technical and operational topics
• Technical/Operational Discussion
– Large BGP Communities at IXP Route Servers
by Nasato Goto @ JPNAP
• Discussed why IXPs are reluctant to deploy
large communities
– RPKI Deployment at IXPs
by Che-Hoo Cheng @ APNIC
• Promoting RPKI to be deployed at IXP for the
sake of routing security
– Localizing PeeringDB interface by Masataka
Mawatari @ JPIX
• Japanese community localized PeeringDB
interface, and encourage other countries to
localize it to their own language
IXP updates
• JPNAP
– Hit 1.6Tbps
• VNIX
– Customer capacity nearly 300G
• JPIX
– Replacing hardware-based route-server to
virtual machine route servers
• BBIX
– BBIX Thailand has been announced
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8. Summary of APIX meeting #18
Administrative topics
• Could not have a General Meeting due
to lack of presence of IXPs
• Brief introduction to modify APIX
bylaws
– Member IXPs which have not paid the
membership fee will be restricted some of
their rights
• Peering Asia Update
– Peering Asia 2.0 is getting closer
• Comments from attendees
– There are still many IXPs in APAC region,
we should do more efforts to encourage
APIX membership to them
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9. PEERING ASIA 2.0
HONG KONG CO-HOST BY
HKIX AND HKNOG
24th – 25th October, 2018
By Base64 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0

10. Peering Asia’s Best conference Location
– Hong Kong
¤ Geographically in center of
Asia, within 5 hours air
travel from most of
economies in Asia region.
¤ Visa Free arrangement with
most of economies in the
Asia region.
¤ Many choices of
accommodation, convenient
local transportation.
By Estial (Own work), via Wikimedia Commons

11. Peering Asia 2.0 site
• www.PeeringAsia.com
• Registration is open
– Already 120 people have been registered
• Program will be fixed in a week or so
• Another notice:
– Call for Host Proposals (Peering Asia 3.0)
• We are looking for a host of Peering Asia 3.0, in autumn 2019
• Submission deadline is by the end of this week (Fri 14 Sep 2018)

12. Thank you!!
Any questions?
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