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Peering and Transit
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Asia-Pacific Regional ISP
DE-CIX Kolkata Appears in Three Records. None of Them Counts a Member.
DE-CIX Kolkata Appears in Three Records. None of Them Counts a Member. intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may follow.…
Europe and Middle East Institutional Trends
Saudi Arabia Built a 6.6 Tbps Exchange and Filled a Quarter of It
On 30 October 2026 the Saudi Arabian Internet Exchange's own homepage reported 6.6 Tbps of provisioned capacity and an all-time peak of 1.65 Tb/s — arithmetic that closes to exactly one quarter, and a gap that tells a buyer more about the exchange than any membership total does.
Leaders
Eric Băleanu’s Romanian IX Opens Two Doors: Membership for Small ISPs, Commercial Links for Larger Ones
InterLAN-IX grew from neighbourhood LANs and a Bucharest operators’ association into one Layer 2 platform stretched into regional cities. Small local providers can join the association that owns it; larger operators connect commercially. The geography that widened access also put…
Europe and Middle East Institutional
Netnod Runs a Nordic Exchange and I-root. Its Registry File Says It Is a Membership Row.
Netnod Runs a Nordic Exchange and I-root. Its Registry File Says It Is a Membership Row. intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences…
Europe and Middle East Institutional Trends
Europe’s draft telecom talks have four deadlines and an unnamed report reader
The proposed Digital Networks Act gives national regulators and BEREC a timetable for bringing network and adjacent-sector firms into conciliation. It also requires a written account. The draft never says who receives that account or whether it must be published.
IETF
The Aircraft Changes Networks. Its BGP Route Must Stay in the Aviation Overlay.
An aircraft crosses coverage areas; the ground network has to keep finding it. A new IETF working-group draft would handle that movement inside an aviation routing overlay, with BGP conversations confined to the ground. The design's most important switch sits where an overlay…
IETF
The BGP Session Has No IP Address. The Next Hop Still Has a MAC Owner.
A new BGP transport proposal puts the control conversation directly on Ethernet, behind QUIC encryption and a per-peer key. It also lets an authenticated peer name a third machine on the segment as the forwarding next hop. That second power is the one an exchange operator and a…
Story
InterLAN’s Robot Has a Rollback Timer. Its AI Has No Router Keys.
At RIPE 93, InterLAN IX put two kinds of automation on the same slide: one can change live network equipment after checks, while the AI assistant can only read. The more interesting number is not the number of robots. It is the 29 physical devices behind a portal whose database…
CASE FILE
The Handshake Said ECN. The Network Ate the Ink.
A RIPE 93 study found that most sampled servers could agree to carry congestion signals. Then the researchers followed the packets: on more than two million successful traces, the signal bits were erased.
CASE FILE
The AI May Write the Report. It May Not Touch the Router.
At InterLAN IX, a member can ask for a network change; a database, rollback timer and human operator decide what the shared fabric actually becomes.
IETF
The Internet Got the Congestion Memo. Some Routes Ate It.
A new measurement puts a paper victory for congestion signalling beside the small, consequential habit of wiping the signal on its way through.
CASE FILE
The IXP Looking Glass Saw an Empty Stage. BMP Checked Backstage.
A route can vanish from the public view without vanishing from the exchange. A new RIPE 93 demonstration offers a way to see which door it passed through.
Story
A Registry Row Is Not a Switch: Reading the Maldives Internet Exchange
A Registry Row Is Not a Switch: Reading the Maldives Internet Exchange intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that may follow.…
Leaders
Wolfgang Tremmel Heard “Layer 3 Exchange” and Asked Who Gets the Keys
At RIPE 93, a proposed upgrade to Internet exchanges drew an old operator’s question: when the exchange starts routing, who is allowed to steer?
Asia-Pacific Institutional Trends
A hundred gigabits that stay in Nepal — and the missing number that would make it mean something
NPIX says it crossed 100 Gbps of traffic swapped inside Nepal in April 2026, and that the level looks stable rather than spiky. The retained record still supplies no denominator or port count, and its provider summaries conflict — one reports more than 40 entities, a later one…
CASE FILE
BGP Says the IX Is Fine. The Packet Has Gone Sightseeing
James Rice brought a pointed question to RIPE 93: why does an Internet exchange sell a shared peering floor when it could offer each network a routed point-to-point port? A healthy BGP session has never been a receipt for delivery to the right door. His layer-3 proposal would…
Leaders
Rupesh Shrestha Had Seen 100 Gbps Before. This Time It Kept Coming Back.
A spike makes a fine screenshot. At Nepal’s Internet exchange, the more interesting news was that local traffic kept returning.
Asia-Pacific National Telecom
Public Company in the Name, Private Company in the File, 512 Addresses on the Wire
Public Company in the Name, Private Company in the File, 512 Addresses on the Wire intelligence summary explains the development, the public evidence available to readers, the organisations involved, the regional context, market exposure, and the infrastructure consequences that…
Leaders
Stephen Suess Mapped Local Routes. Fifty Probes Got the Spotlight.
A map can make the Internet look wonderfully tidy. Stephen Suess’s Region Meshes offers a more interesting story: RIPE Atlas measures a whole region’s public probes, then picks up to 50 of them for the richly annotated picture. The view is useful because somebody chose what fits…
Asia-Pacific Institutional
Bhutan's internet has a shortcut. Someone still has to pay for the road
At btIX, rival networks share an exchange rather than send every useful connection the long way round. The interesting bargain sits behind the ports: common costs, individual access bills and a board with real operational power.