DATAIX

DATAIX is an Internet exchange network between telecom operators and content generators in Russia, Europe and Asia. According to the Internet Exchange Report by Hurricane Electric Internet Services, DATAIX is the largest in Russia and is one of the five largest in the world by peak traffic, the size of which exceeds 3 Tbit/s.[1] The headquarters of the company is located in St. Petersburg.

DATAIX
Full nameDATAIX
Founded2009
Websitewww.dataix.ru/en
Members587[1]
Ports1904[2]
Peak2.8 Tbit/s[3]

History

DATAIX was launched in St. Petersburg in 2009. The first Internet exchange point was located in the Information Exchange Center in the building of the Saint Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design (18 Bolshaya Morskaya Street). The founders used their own money as investment. At the start, DATAIX purchased part of the fiber-optic network, and partly built it specifically for the project (for example, the route from the data centers on Tsvetochnaya Street, where VKontakte was hosted, to Borovaya Street). Also, they leased or purchased capacities in Moscow.[4] Peering LLC, which owned the DATAIX network, was closely connected to the relatives of Pavel Durov: half-brother Mikhail Petrov, who worked at Selectel, and his mother Albina Durova (the latter owned 25.5% of the company from July 2012 to November 2013).[5]

In 2013, a DATAIX point of presence was opened in Kyiv. DATAIX served the Ukrainian traffic of the VKontakte social network, with caching servers of the social network on the site.[6] In the following years, DATAIX became a major player in the Ukrainian traffic market. In 2016, the largest telecommunications companies of the country Kyivstar and Ukrtelecom were connected to the DATAIX exchange point, and at that time up to 2 Tbit/s of traffic passed through it.[7]

In 2015, the national operator of Moldova Moldtelecom was connected, becoming the fourth in the group of connected national operators (Ukrtelecom, Kazakhtelecom, and the National Traffic Exchange Center of Belarus).[8] In the same year, Novatel, a member of Deutsche Telekom, joined the DATAIX network through a point in Frankfurt.[9]

In 2016 DATAIX participants got the opportunity to establish a direct session with Hurricane Electric, the largest operator in the world in terms of the number of IPv4 and IPv6 prefixes. The maximum network load in 2016 was 2.2 Tbit/s, the channel capacity between Moscow and St. Petersburg reached 0.4 Tbit/s.[10]

In 2017, DATAIX officially entered the Euro-IX Internet exchange association, and also launched points of presence in Sweden (Stockholm) and Latvia (Riga).[11]

In March 2018, it was announced that Global-IX and DATAIX are merging under the brand of the latter, but on the base of the GlobalNet infrastructure, which includes its own highway communication networks on the Moscow-St. Petersburg-Helsinki-Stockholm route. Companies are counting on the synergy effect of the GlobalNet MPLS network and the DATAIX traffic exchange point services.[12][13]

Network features

DATAIX connects the traffic of telecom operators and content generators in Russia, Europe and Asia. More than 30 points of presence in a united traffic exchange network are located in seven countries:[13]

The total length of the networks is more than 7 thousand km, and the total throughput capacity of external channels reaches 3 Tbit/s.[13]

The number of participants (ASN) exceeds 400, of which 80% are telecom operators and 20% are content generators. Peak load of communication channels exceeded 3 Tbit/s, while before the merger it did not exceed 2 Tbit/s. According to the results of 2018, the total number of ports in the DATAIX network is 3403, of which 247 are ports with throughput capacity of 100 Gbit/s (0.1 Tbit/s) each, 123 ports with capacity of 40 Gbit/s and 2930 ports of 10 Gbit/s.[13][3] As of September 2019, DATAIX is ahead of the Russian network MSK-IX in terms of the number of participants.[1]

Events

DATAIX regularly takes part in meetings of the Internet exchange association Euro-IX, at GPF conferences (Global Peering Forum),[14] EPF (European Peering Forum),[15] ENOG (Eurasia Network Operators Group).[16] The company also hosted the first large-scale conference for the telecom market in St. Petersburg — GlobalNet Telecom Day 2019.[17]

Owners and management

DATAIX is owned by GlobalNet. GlobalNet CEO is Natalya Lukina.[13]

See also

References
  1. "Internet Exchange Report". Hurricane Electric Internet Services. Retrieved 2019-09-02.
  2. "Statistics". DATAIX. Retrieved 2019-11-13.
  3. "Итоги 2018 года: главные достижения DATAIX". Comnews.ru. 2010-02-19.
  4. Наталия Нелюбина (2010-06-28). "DataIX — новый Internet Exchange".
  5. Синодов Юрий, Анастасия Шматкова (2014-02-19). "Трафик ВКонтакте одновременно подорожает и подешевеет для провайдеров". Roem.ru.
  6. Артур Ризнык (2013-03-26). "К каким точкам обмена трафиком подключаются украинские провайдеры". InternetUA.
  7. Стас Юрасов (2016). "Угроза с Востока. Или как работает украинский интернет". Liga.net.
  8. "Пиринговый проект DataIX перешел границы". Comnews.ru. 2015-04-01.
  9. "DataIX стал ближе к Deutsche Telecom". Comnews.ru. 2015-10-15.
  10. "Статистика DATAIX 2016 г." Comnews.ru. 2017-01-19.
  11. "Компания DATAIX подводит итоги 2017 года". Comnews.ru. 2010-01-23.
  12. Дмитрий Григорьев (2018-02-19). "Global-IX и DATAIX объединяются". Nag.ru.
  13. Яков Шпунт (2018-03-27). "GlobalNet стал крупнейшим акционером DataIX". Comnews.ru.
  14. "Attendees registered for GPF 14.0". Global Peering Forum.
  15. "Attendees 2019". European Peering Forum.
  16. "Список участников — ENOG 16". Eurasia Network Operators Group.
  17. "Первая международная конференция Telecom day пройдет в Санкт-Петербурге". Телеспутник. 2019-04-02.
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