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## Network 

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Our network consists of routers and interconnections in two main sites in the
Zurich metro: eShelter (NTT) in Ruemlang (next to the airport), and Interxion
ZUR1 in Glattbrugg. These two locations are connected with dark fiber, and we
have access to several local loop providers in both locations. For example, we
can arrange connectivity to Colozueri, Equinix ZH4 and Equinix ZH5 directly,
and using our partners (such as IP-Max, Init7, Openfactory), domestically and
to most european cities.

You can read more about our network in this [informative post]({% post_url 2021-02-27-network %}).

### IP Transit

We operate [[AS8298](https://as8298.peeringdb.com/)] which announces `AS-IPNG`
for ourselves and our transit customers. We're pretty firmly connected in and
around Zurich, with a 10Gbit link to SwissIX, CommunityIX and CH-IX. We have
a diverse set of transit providers which give us good reach to the world,
including via Cogent AS174, Hurricane Electric AS6939, and for strong european
presence, we receive transit from OpenFactory AS58299, Meerfarbig AS34549, and
IP-Max AS25091.

Gaining access to this wealth of IPv4 and IPv6 coverage is as easy as finding
an L2 connection to one of our points of presence, establishing a BGP session
to us, and announcing your netblock(s). We'll take it from there!

You can read more about our BGP capabilities in this [informative post]({% post_url 2021-02-27-network %}).

### Local Loop Ethernet

Apropos, getting onto the internet is pretty easy if you are in a commercial
colocation facility. Of course, any internet provider will offer various
quality IPv4 and IPv6 connections with or without a static IP address. However
getting from your house to the datacenter is often the most complicated and
expensive project. At IPng, we had this challenge too -- and considering
we solved it for ourselves, we can certainly also solve it for you! With our
residential last-mile ISP collaboration (for example, ConnectionPoint, Init7,
Solnet, and Swisscom BBCS), L2 services directly to your residence or office
become easily possible.

## Colocation

We operate a private colocation facility in Zurich Albisrieden. The facility
has 3x200A of power and about 60m2 of floor space. Hosting one or several
machines, including Layer2 connectivity either to your own home, or to the
main internet hubs of Zurich, are easily accomplished in our colocation
facility. If more space is needed, we are regulars in most all Swiss carrier
housing facilities, and can help broker a deal that is tailored to your
needs.

You can read more about how we built our own colocation from scratch in
this [informative post]({% post_url 2022-02-24-colo %}).

## Project Design / Execution

{{< image width="15em" float="right" src="/assets/pdu19.png" alt="19 inch PDU" >}}

We design things, both logical and physical. Be it two dimensional or three
dimensional, as life long tinkerers, we have a fair bit of experience in
mechanical and electrical engineering. Of course, as a network business,
designing and deploying autonomous systems and networks of any size is our home
turf. Also fundamentally understanding how a network should perform, be it
throughput, bandwidth, latency or jitter and packet loss: we've seen it all,
from ADSL lines to 300km DWDM spans.

For some good examples, take a look at these case studies:
* [Fiber7 on LiteXchange]({% post_url 2016-10-07-fiber7-litexchange %})
* [SixXS Sunset]({% post_url 2017-03-01-sixxs-sunset %})
* [Coloclue Loadtesting]({% post_url 2021-02-27-coloclue-loadtest %})
