Namex provides an alternative to the physical interconnect in the Meet-Me Infrastructure (PNI) allowing the use of a dedicated VLAN on the switching platform to set up Point-to-Point connections at a price which is lower than the equivalent peering port.

This is useful to quickly deploy an interconnection between members to deliver services, such as those offered from the Namex Marketplace portal, in a very short time and with the advantage of a remote configuration that can be activated without access to the facilities.

By using the switching platform the traffic can also be monitored to obtain telemetry statistics.

We support a different dedicated port at 1 Gbps, 10 Gbps or 100 Gbps on which you can configure any number of Point-to-Point VLANs.

A VPNI can be established between two parties (P2P) or as a closed group of 3 or more connected parties (isolated broadcast domain), VPNIs are identified by unique VLAN tags assigned by NAMEX.

The VPNI service is provided through a dedicated port on the Switching Platform, available interface types and cabling are the following:

A VPNI port must be configured as a 802.1q trunk port.

• Remote management, ability to activate, modify and disconnect services quickly and without access to the facilities
• Telemetry, collect and analyze your traffic statistics

Besides public peering VLANs, Namex provides private VLANs on demand to enable members to establish private peering or transit relationships in a separated broadcast domain. Private VLANs can be assigned to existing public peering ports, by enabling 802.1q VLAN trunking, or to additional ports upon request.