Network & Routing

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✓AS48314
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IP-Projects ASN AS48314

IP-Projects has been operating its own ASN at several data center locations within the Frankfurt am Main metropolitan area since summer 2020.

The ASN is connected to different carrier service providers, Internet Exchange nodes and PNIs to provide IP-Projects customers with low latency and high quality routes at low costs. We are therefore not only focused on TIER 1 carriers, but also on service providers delivering other value-added services.

Each carrier is connected to the ASN with multiple redundancies, so that even a failure of a single network port does not lead to a failure of the entire carrier. Therefore, a continuous expansion of carrier and exchange bandwidths is carried out from a 50% utilization of uplink capacities.

Transit Carrier

When selecting the transit carriers, we placed particular emphasis on qualitative redundancy. Some of the carriers are therefore similar in the quality of the routing to the upstream DSL providers, so that the failure of a single carrier does not lead to a noticeable deterioration in our routing quality.

In the "traffic mix" IP-Projects currently relies on the following carriers:

Core-Backbone (AS33891)
RETN (AS9002)
DTAG (AS3320)
Orange (AS5511)
Inter.Link (AS5405)
Cogent (AS174)
Sparkl (AS6762)

Internet Exchange & Peerings

Currently we are connected to the Internet Exchange nodes DE-CIX Frankfurt and AMS-IX (link).

We are a committed peering provider and therefore have an open peering policy, which is why the list of existing peerings grows almost weekly.

There are direct peerings to all well-known major networks such as:

1&1 IONOS, Akamai, Amazon, Alibaba, Apple, Cloudflare, Colt, Deutsche Glasfaser, Dropbox, EWETEL, Github, Google, Hetzner, Leaseweb, Microsoft, myLoc, OVH, TDC, Telefonica, Twitch, Telenor, Valve, Verein zur Förderung eines Deutschen Forschungsnetzes e. V. (DFN) or Vodafone.

In addition, we are connected to the route server of the respective Internet Exchange in order to also exchange traffic with networks also participating in the route server if direct peering does not yet exist.

PNI - Private Network Interconnection

If we exchange a particularly large amount of traffic with a network, we always check the possibility of a direct connection. Our POP locations are therefore selected in such way that we can also realize direct PNI connections with other networks.

Currently, we have PNIs with the following providers:

Google
Hetzner
meerfarbig
myLoc
LWLcom

Establishing a direct PNI improves the network quality, since a transport service provider or Internet exchange is no longer needed to exchange the traffic. This reduces costs while increasing routing quality. Especially for high traffic volume, this is a win-win situation for both service providers and their customers.

IP-Projects Network

To give you an insight into our network, we have summarized further essential information.

Maintenance Tolerant Routing

At each of our sites we operate a multi-redundant routing stack consisting of several routers as well as several switch stacks to realize redundant active-active LACP connections. We have paid special attention to complete maintenance tolerance.

The routers are technically designed in such a way that the complete failure of a router due to a technical malfunction or due to maintenance (e.g. firmware update) cannot lead to an overload of the network routing or to a routing failure. The routers are also redundantly connected to the respective Internet nodes by means of LACP connections.

Metro Ring Frankfurt am Main

To ensure redundancy even in the event of a complete site failure, our network is structured as a ring. The Metro Ring is set up between all locations within Frankfurt using Layer 2 fiber optic connections. Via these connections we can also realize a V-LAN transport, for example for the transport of backups to other data center locations.

The Metro Ring is represented as follows:

IP-Transit Offers

At our locations NTT Frankfurt 1 and at the InterXion Rechenzentrumscampus Frankfurt

we can also offer you our IP-Transit service. The smallest possible uplink capacity starts at 10 GBit/s. The calculation is performed on a port basis using the 95% method. The minimum commitment is 10% of the port capacity.

It is also possible to book our DDoS mitigation system using Transit Ports.

Please contact us for a free consultation and quotation.