Presentation by Ajai Kumar at APRICOT 2018 on Wednesday, 28 February 2018.

1. APIX update

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. Steering Committee (by this meeting)
• SC members
– Chairperson: Brian Kim -- Twitch (KR)
– Secretary: Ajai Kumar -- Mumbai IX (IN)
– Treasurer: Gavin Tweedie -- Megaport (AU/HK/SG/NZ)
– Meeting Arrangement: Zulfadly Syam -- IIX (ID)
– Website Management: Harijanto Pribadi -- IIX (ID)
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5. APIX Members
• 25 IXPs, from 17 countries and economies
– 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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6. 25 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)
– SGIX (SG)
– SOX (SG)
– TPIX (TW)
– VNIX (VN)
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7. Summary of APIX meeting #17
Technical and operational topics
• Technical/Operational Discussion
– IXP Database: by Bijal @ Euro-IX
– PeeringDB update: by Arnold @ DE-CIX
– MANRS project: by Andrei @ ISOC
– IXP developing work at APNIC: by Che-Hoo
@ APNIC
– 150 IXP an beyond! by Walt @ HE
– Panel discussion: developing an new IXP in
my country: Brian@APIX (moderated),
Nan@BKNIX, Gaurab@NPIX, Se
Young@KINX, Yali@CHN-IX, Mohan@MyIX,
Jeff@SGIX
Administrative topics
• Membership fee Collection
• Steering Committee member Election
• Peering Asia Update
IXP updates
• AMS-IX HK, Equinix, IIX, HKIX, IX-
Australia, JPIX, JPNAP, KINX, Mega-IX,
MumbaiIX, NIXI, NPIX, TPIX, VNIX
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8. New Steering Committee
• SC members
– Chairperson: Katsuyasu Toyama -- JPNAP (JP)
– Secretary: Ajai Kumar -- Mumbai IX(IN)
– Treasurer: Vijayakumar Sethuraman -- Equinix (AP)
– Meeting Arrangement: Zulfadly Syam -- IIX (ID)
– Website Management: Harijanto Pribadi -- IIX (ID)
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9. Peering Asia Update
Katsuyasu Toyama
APIX - Peering Asia WG
Peering Asia 1.0 Japan Organizing Committee
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10. Peering Asia
• New open and neutral peering event in Asia Pacific region
– just like
• Global Peering Forum
• European Peering Forum
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11. Peering Asia 1.0
• Nov. 1st – 2nd, 2017 (Wed. – Thu.)
• Hosts (Japanese commercial IXPs):
– BBIX
– Equinix Japan
– JPIX
– JPNAP
• Venue
– Westin Miyako Hotel, Kyoto, Japan
– Website
• http://PeeringAsia.com/

12. Overview of Peering Asia event
• Event architecture
– two days, one social event
(additional social event is OK)
– Peering meetings and conferences
– Assuming 200 attendees
• Peering meetings
– 30 minute meeting between two
organizations to negotiate about peering,
interconnection, use of an IX and/or a
Datacenter, and so on
– approximately 10 slots per day
• Conference & Peering Personals
– Presentations and panel discussions mainly
regarding to peering and interconnection
– 1 minute self-introduction of
peering/interconnection managers
– In 90 minutes per day
• Lunch, Social party, Coffee break
– Socializing between attendees (and
sponsors)
MTG
Conf.
Social
Lunch
MTG
MTG
Lunch
Conf.
Day 0 Day 1 Day 2
Social
Pre-
event

13. 23 Sponsors (Thanks a lot!)
• Platinum (12)
– Akamai
– Amazon
– AT Tokyo
– Broadband Tower
– Colt
– Facebook
– Google
– K-opti
– KDDI
– Netflix
– Oath (Yahoo!)
– Softbank
• Social (1)
– Netflix
• Gold (9)
– AMS-IX
– APNIC
– IIJ
– Juniper
– KINX
– NTT Smart Connect
– RETN
– Seiko Solutions
– Telstra
• Coffee (2)
– LINX
– NTT docomo
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14. Attendees
• 239 attendees from 114 ASNs
–Not only from Asia Pacific (including Japan)
but from North America and Europe
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15. Profiles of attending ASN
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Japan
48
42%
AsiaPacific
40
35%
NorthAmerica
18
16%
Europe, 8,
7%
Per region
Japan 48
Malaysia 10Singapore 7
Hong Kong,
5
Korea 4
China 4
Australia 3
Vietnam 2
Thailand 2
Taiwan 2
Philippine 1
USA 18
United Kingdom 4
Netherland, 3 Germany 1
Per country/economy

16. Result of survey:
Almost good reputation
16
Excellent
77%
Good
21%
Below Average
2%
Poor
0%
Did the
Peering Asia 1.0 meet your
objective?
Excellent Good Below Average Poor
Yes
91%
No
0%
Others
9%
Will you attend
future Peering Asia events?
Yes No Others

17. Summary
• Peering Asia 1.0 was in great success!
– Over 200 attendees, not only from Asia Pacific, but all over the world
– 23 sponsor companies/organizations contributed much to this event
• Almost all attendees wish to continue this event in Asia Pacific
– They need a neutral peering event in APAC region
– Sponsors also need such an event to promote peering in this region
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18. Result of survey:
Next place
Japan HK Singapore Korea Taiwan Indonesia China Malyasia Thailand
21 11 5 4 4 3 2 2 2
11 6 2 1 2 3 0 1 1
6 3 2 1 2 0 2 1 0
4 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 1
Total
Japan
Asia
Pacific
Europe
+
North
America
• From JAPAN
• From APAC
• Excluding
japan
• From NA/EU
All survey-
responders
• Hong Kong is the most requested city for next Peering Asia

19. Peering Asia 2.0
Hong Kong
OCT 24 to 25 2018
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20. 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

21. 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

22. About the Hosts
Founded in 1995 by
CUHK. It’s the only
Independent & Neutral
Internet Exchange in Hong
Kong. There are 278
participants now.
Founded by a Group of
volunteers previously built
the network for joint
APRICOT-APAN 2011,
dedicate to serve the
development of Internet.

23. Peering Asia 2.0 details
¨ Date : 24th to 25th October ( Wed & Thu )
¨ Venue : Kowloon Regal Hotel, Tsim Sha Tsui
n Conference capacity of 200+
n 11+ breakout rooms capacity
n Walking distance to wide range of accommodation choices
n Walking distance to subway & train stations
n Surround by numerous restaurants and bars

24. See you soon in Hong Kong!
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