A first look at the Latin American IXPs

E. Carisimo , Del Fiore, Julián Martín , D. Dujovne , Cristel Pelsser and I. Alvarez-Hamelin

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Abstract

We investigated Internet eXchange Points (IXPs) deployed across Latin America. We discovered that many Latin American states have been actively involved in the development of their IXPs. We further found a correlation between the success of a national IXP and the absence of local monopolistic ASes that concentrate the country's IPv4 address space. In particular, three IXPs have been able to gain local traction: IX.br-SP, CABASE-BUE and PIT Chile-SCL. We further compared these larger IXPs with others outside Latin America. We found that, in developing regions, IXPs have had a similar growth in the last years and are mainly populated by regional ASes. The latter point clearly contrasts with more internationally re-known European IXPs whose members span multiple regions.

Publication Details

Publication Type
Journal Article
Publication Date
January 2020
Published In
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1145/3390251.3390255

BibTeX Citation

@article{Carisimo2020a,
	title        = {A first look at the Latin American IXPs},
	author       = {Carisimo, E. and Del Fiore, Julián Martín and Dujovne, D. and Pelsser, Cristel and Alvarez-Hamelin, I.},
	year         = 2020,
	month        = jan,
	journal      = {ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review},
	doi          = {10.1145/3390251.3390255},
	url          = {http://icube-publis.unistra.fr/2-CDDP20},
	abstract     = {We investigated Internet eXchange Points (IXPs) deployed across Latin America. We discovered that many Latin American states have been actively involved in the development of their IXPs. We further found a correlation between the success of a national IXP and the absence of local monopolistic ASes that concentrate the country's IPv4 address space. In particular, three IXPs have been able to gain local traction: IX.br-SP, CABASE-BUE and PIT Chile-SCL. We further compared these larger IXPs with others outside Latin America. We found that, in developing regions, IXPs have had a similar growth in the last years and are mainly populated by regional ASes. The latter point clearly contrasts with more internationally re-known European IXPs whose members span multiple regions.},
	groups       = {International Journals and Magazines},
	x-international-audience = {Yes},
	x-language   = {EN}
}

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