Heavy Networking 600: Inside A Non-Profit Internet Exchange

Internet exchange points are networks you can use to connect to some other exchange participant. Sounds like maybe that’s a service provider thing, and it can be. But IXPs are useful for businesses, too. In this episode of Heavy Networking, we’re going to learn about IXPs, and non-profit IXPs in particular. What are these organizations? How are they different from an ISP? Why might you want to join one? How does the networking work? Our guests are Matt Peterson of the San Francisco Metropolitan Internet Exchange and Jim Troutman of the Northern New England Neutral Internet Exchange. We discuss: * How non-profit IXPs differ from for-profit exchanges * How non-profit IXPs operate * Why participate in an IXP * Peering, transits, and BGP * IXP infrastructure * How customers connect * More Sponsor: Itential Itential is network and cloud automation. Itential’s software makes it easy for network teams to get insights into your entire infrastructure, immediately detect non-compliant assets for rapid remediation, and manage and deploy changes across both CLI & API infrastructure. Find out more at www.itential.com/packetpushers. Show Links: San Francisco Metropolitan Internet Exchange Northern New England Neutral Internet Exchange