France-IX Highlights for 2017-2018 & perspectives Franck SIMON 1 France-IX General Meeting September 2018
2017-2018 - Highlights Continued growth of Paris Consolidation of Marseille Growing number of corporate companies connecting to France-IX 100Gbps offers development Wider range of MarketPlace services Growing number of resellers (remote peering) & PoP finder tool Increased international competition between IXPs vs collaboration 2 France-IX General Meeting September 2018
2017-2018 – More ASNs connected Sustained growth of Paris & Marseille 50 7 48 ASNs ASNs upgrades Marseille Paris 3 France-IX General Meeting September 2018
2017-2018 - Infrastructure Backbone evolutions Additional fibre paths New PoP Active Coriant DWDM equipment for core Interxion MRS-2 PoPs Extreme SLX (increasing density for 10G and 100G ports) on core PoPs Impact of acquisition of Brocade by Extreme for backbone evolutions 4 France-IX General Meeting September 2018
2017-2018 – Services Large offer of services New offers around Enhanced features provided through our 100G ports for route servers MarketPlace RPKI filtering (new sellers) 5 France-IX General Meeting September 2018
2017-2018 – Services Quality of service Release of a QoS objectives document Higher availability objectives for the standard service: move from 99,95% to 99,995% 99,995% objective matched but serious constraint for PoPs with high density of connected members 6 France-IX General Meeting September 2018
Prepare for the future 7 France-IX General Meeting September 2018
Organization review Consolidation of the organization (but keep it simple) President/CEO CTO CCO Finance & administration + (Sales, Marketing, Communication) Office Manager 8 France-IX General Meeting September 2018
Organization review Objectives Go to paperless internally and externally Optimize contracts signature processes (electronic signature) & simplify contracts Improve internal processes & procedures and produce systematic documentation for more efficiency and capability to welcome new people Improve accounting/billing (to cope with financial auditor recommendations - nominated by the board): automation of processes between our IS and the accounting database Improve transparency and visibility to our community: enhanced communication and reporting 9 France-IX General Meeting September 2018
Enhanced communication & reporting Regular enquiries to collect needs & expectations Newsletters Blog Quarterly reports Annual report On-request dashboards for management & board (on-going action) 10 France-IX General Meeting September 2018
Team changes Between 1st of July 2017 and 30th of June 2018 Departures Arnaud Fenioux Alexandre Corso Marc Mendy 11 France-IX General Meeting September 2018
Team changes Technical team Arrivals Anastasia Parfenova Boulbaba Kahila Thierry Draveny GDPR Network engineer Full stack developer (professional training contract – 12 months) 12 France-IX General Meeting September 2018
Team changes Arrivals Commercial team Simon Thomas Nicolas Guy-Grand Sandrine Gourby Sales assistant Business Developer International Business Developer 13 France-IX General Meeting September 2018
Team changes Arrivals Marketing team Akela Bendjeddou Mike-Steven Ponnoussamy Junior web designer Marketing & Communication (professional training contract – 18 months) 14 France-IX General Meeting September 2018
Team growth 2 engineers will join the technical team end of September & November 2018 Still some positions to be hired by end of 2018 System engineer / Technician Lawyer webmaster More positions to be hired for 2019 Moving to new premises mid-October 2018 - Sub-rent part of the premises to optimize space use & costs 15 France-IX General Meeting September 2018
Finances consolidation No capital increase required on 2017-2018 Last one done in 2016-2017 to raise the share capital from 60K€ to 250K€ by incorporation of benefits Still no capital increase planned for 2018-2019 During 2017-2018, raise of the working capital to cope with increase of recurring expenses (more staff & additional equipment bought in leasing mode) 16 France-IX General Meeting September 2018
Finances consolidation Consider creating some financial reserves to cope with some cash flows variations, and annual price revision impact (immediate Next step significant loss of revenues every 1st quarter , as decrease of pricing applies for all customers/members and not only new ones) 17 France-IX General Meeting September 2018
Pricing 18 France-IX General Meeting September 2018
Evolution of pricing Working on new pricing 2019 to grow value for money for our members Integrate new offer Evolution of pricing for the MarketPlace Interconnection of Paris & Marseille Only peering traffic is considered for charging members, not the traffic related to MarketPlace services => New pricing effective on 1st of January 2019 19 France-IX General Meeting September 2018
Cooperation 20 France-IX General Meeting September 2018
Cooperation with other IXPs Continued cooperation with other French IXPs Support of new IX initiatives : Brest-IX Any other requests for cooperation with French regional IXPs are welcome 21 France-IX General Meeting September 2018
Cooperation with other IXPs Continued cooperation with LU-CIX, ToPIX 22 France-IX General Meeting September 2018
Partnerships with French speaking African countries Sponsorship Support (official inauguration/launch in August 2017) (setup a second PoP) MoU signed with ARPCE (Congo regulator) to consolidate Congo-IX as a regional hub Bring support to the cross-border countries hosting an IXP 23 France-IX General Meeting September 2018
Partnerships with other international IXPs Share technical skills and human resources Improve some services, develop more value for our customers/members and save costs (economy of scale) 24 France-IX General Meeting September 2018
France-IX info@franceix.net www.franceix.net +33 (0)1 70 61 97 72 THANK YOU FOR twitter.com/ixpfranceix YOUR ATTENTION youtube.com/user/TheFranceIX facebook.com/ixpfranceix 25 France-IX General Meeting September 2018
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