Wanna siege us, really?

mercoledì 11 settembre 13

Italian Broadband

mercoledì 11 settembre 13

Wired Internet Marketplace

31.5% http://www.statistik.pts.se/pts1h2012e/Marketshares.htm#Broadbandsubscriptions53

36.2 % http://www.ispreview.co.uk/review/top10.php

51.7% http://www.telecomitalia.com/tit/it/investors/reports-results.html

mercoledì 11 settembre 13

Italy: They want to be them all...Fiber&

Infrastructure&

Carriers&

Data&Centers&

ISPs&

Content&Providers&

IXP&

mercoledì 11 settembre 13

Telecom Italia Structure

• Domestic Network - AS3269

• International Services AS6762 aka Sparkle/Seabone

• Sparkle totally owned by Telecom Italia

• (Too) Many organisational changes

mercoledì 11 settembre 13

History

• in 1996 TI acquired a large dialup ISP

• This has been traded (anti-trust arena) with a commitment to peer with any ‘Italian’ ISP at Italian IX (for AS3269).

• kept as a gent’s agreement up to 2012

mercoledì 11 settembre 13

Depeering timeline

• Summer 2012: first rumors

• June 2013: Official letter of disconnection sent to all peers

• 10 July 2013: Cutoff starts at MIX later at other exchanges

mercoledì 11 settembre 13

IX impact• Slow down of new affiliations

• TI offer give no chances for aggregated offers at IXs

• traffic decrease hidden by usual summer decline

• TOP-IX decrease 20G (of +50G)

• uncertainty

• price erosion: members facing depeering request for lower fees due to loss of appeal

• churn: some downgrades but no disconnections

• promos needed, planned and executed

mercoledì 11 settembre 13

More issues

• Regulatory Measurement Tools useless (http://www.misurainternet.it)

• Eavesdropping risk increase

• Latency back to the ‘90s...

mercoledì 11 settembre 13

Further Actions• Strengthen collaboration among Exchanges

• Raise the attention on the matter. More awareness

• Attracting new colos CDNs & content

• prevent national large networks from embracing pyramidal approach like SS7 interconnection

• make loads of noise as the counterpart asks for NDA signed before sending the 'IPlook' offer...8-)

mercoledì 11 settembre 13

Questions

mauro.magrassi@mix-it.net

luca.cicchelli@top-ix.org

mercoledì 11 settembre 13