Peering
NaMeX provides in each site a high-end, redundant, distributed switching platform that enables members to connect their border routers and establish peering relationships by means of BGPv4 protocol. By establishing peering relationships, NaMeX members can save on transit costs and optimize their access to all other members' networks.
Connectivity
NaMeX switching platform supports the following Ethernet technologies:
- 10BASE-TX
- 100BASE-TX
- 1000BASE-TX
- 1000BASE-LX
- 1000BASE-SX
- 10GBASE-LX
- 10GBASE-SX
Additionally, it is possible to activate multiple connections with link aggregation (802.3ad).
Public peering VLANs
The switching platform supports two separate public peering VLANs, each one is associated with a separate IPv4/IPv6 subnet provided by NaMeX. This enables each member to add redundancy to its connection and/or balance its traffic load across a dual connection.
In addition, a multicast peering VLAN is defined on the switching platform, so that members can exchange multicast traffic in a separated domain.
Private and transit VLANs
Besides public peering VLANs, NaMeX provides private VLANs on demand to enable members to establish private peering or transit relationship in a separated broadcast domain.
Operators willing to provide/acquire Internet transit through NaMeX switching fabrics, can take advantage of private transit VLANs, according to the following terms:
- an operator willing to provide Internet transit must ask for the activation of a transit VLAN in the role of an initiator
- operators willing to acquire Internet transit from another party must ask for the association to a previously created transit VLAN, in the role of a participant
Back-to-back connections
Two operators can request a Private Interconnect, in fiber or copper, linking their routers directly without having to pass through L2 switches.
