Dear peers,

We are happy to share with you some technical news for the 3rd quarter of 2026!

News

Equinix PA3 : New PoP launched in Paris

To better serve the growing demand on the Equinix Paris campus, France-IX is launching a new PoP at Equinix PA3. This PoP follows the design successfully adopted at PA6, incorporating two Nokia SR-1X-48 platforms supporting 800G interfaces, with backbone connectivity ensured by redundant nx400G links. The design relies on two dark fibers following diverse paths and provided by two different operators, landing on our core network nodes at Telehouse 2 and Digital Realty PAR5.

This new location will allow France-IX to better address customer needs across the Equinix PA2/PA3/PA9x/PA10 campus, in particular for 400G connections, which are more sensitive to distance than 10G/100G ones. In the two months following the launch, the approximately forty ports currently connected to our PA6 PoP through extended cross-connects from PA2/PA3/PA9/PA10 will be migrated directly onto the new PA3 PoP, shortening their connection paths and simplifying provisioning on the campus. This migration will be fully managed by France-IX, in close coordination with the Equinix migration team and with appropriate communications to the customers involved.

Peering Essentiel

Peering Essentiel has been successfully launched, and orders can now be placed easily and directly through our Portal: portal.franceix.net.

Google Global Caches @Lyon

In partnership with Google, the Google Global Caches (GGC) hosted in Lyon have been fully renewed, increasing capacity from 30G to 200G. The upgrade included a complete replacement of the server cache infrastructure, now connected to our ASN service's infrastructure AS39801. This upgrade immediately benefits the approximately one hundred members connected to the AURA peering LAN.

Figures

A few figures about Q3-2026:

New customer ports (including upgrades) Q3-2026: More than 2 Tbps of capacity connected!

• 10G: 9 ports
• 100G: 16 ports
• 400G: 1 port

Availability during Q3-2026 for local peering services:

• Bordeaux : 100%
• Lille: 100% 
• Lyon: 100% 
• Marseille: 100% 
• Paris: 100% 
• Toulouse: 100%

NOC service Q3-2026:

• NOC tickets handled: 84

Outages:

• No outage during Q3-2026

Upcoming projects, events and operations

• France-IX Tour Paris, 26th of November : We'd love to see you at the next France-IX Tour in Paris, an engaging program, followed by a networking cocktail for great discussions! Register here: France-IX Tour Paris 2026
• Google VPP in Paris : After a successful launch in Marseille, France-IX is working closely with Google to deploy the Google VPP service on the Peering Plus LAN in Paris
• Strengthening our IXP Interconnections : France-IX maintains long-standing interconnections with LU-CIX and TOP-IX IXPs. We are working on evolving these interconnections in order to offer more capacity and a model better suited to the needs of the customers using them. In the same spirit, we are also working on developing interconnections with IXPs in neighbouring countries, to make it easier for customers to reach networks across these platforms. More information will be shared soon.
• DDoS Mitigation on peering LANs Study : We are currently conducting a study to launch a DDoS mitigation service on the peering LAN: vendors are being consulted, and a PoC will be set up to evaluate some solutions. We would also be glad to hear your expectations regarding this service, please do not hesitate to reach me out and share them by replying to this email.

Happy peering with us,

France-IX technical team