[190348] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IX in Iran by TIC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Mon Jun 27 21:17:30 2016
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From: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 21:16:46 -0400
To: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>, Shahab Vahabzadeh <sh.vahabzadeh@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Jun 27, 2016 at 7:05 AM, Shahab Vahabzadeh
<sh.vahabzadeh@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Everybody,
> I am here to announce that TIC in Iran launched Neutral Internet Exchange
> Points.
> Right now we have four in:
>
> - Tehran (tehran-ix.ir)
> - Shiraz (shiraz-ix.ir)
> - Tabriz (tabriz-ix.ir)
> - Mashhad (mashhad-ix.ir)
>
> Currently we have near 45Gbps traffic on it but it will increase to 100Gbps
> within two months. Content Providers activating their BGP peering with
> members one by one.
>
> Also I have something interesting for you around the world, TIC is
> launching a International IX in Chabahar called Chabahar IX (chabahar-ix.ir)
> which can be interesting for T1 ISPs or Content Providers like Akamai,
> Amazon, Google, Limelight, Cloudflare and etc.
>
Thanks, I'll get this to the right people internally (AKAMAI). In the
meantime, there are a number of peering groups on Facebook (global
peering forum, peering forum, peeringDB) that you may want to join to
discuss this as well.
Don't forget to register in peeringDB:
https://www.peeringdb.com/search?q=IRAN
And finally, great pictures! http://www.tehran-ix.ir/fa/news/ixp-workshop
Good luck!
Best,
Martin
