IX-API provides an interface for provisioning key services at multiple Internet Exchanges. It supports end-to-end automation, reducing manual processes and accelerating service delivery for networks globally.
Developed collaboratively by LINX, AMS-IX, and DE-CIX, IX-API provides a standardised interface for provisioning key services across multiple IXs, enabling fully automated processes for configuring, changing, and cancelling services.
In our previous update, we covered the key enhancements from version 2.1 to 2.5 and how these features provide users with better control over their port access and group management set-up, alongside the ability to query statistical data from port access and logical services. Additionally, enhanced filtering has simplified managing multiple connections, whilst the new service_provider_pop_name property offers clear guidance on which PoP to connect to for their service.
Since then, the IX-API initiative has continued to evolve, delivering new capabilities and improvements to meet the growing needs of networks, as seen in the latest release of version 2.7.1.
The upgrade from the previous version 2.5 to 2.7.1 adds the following features for IX-API users:
- Routing functions and Layer 3 peer configuration – Adds advanced automation and simplifies IP routing setup.
- RTT statistics for connections – Provides latency insights for better performance monitoring.
- MAC address support for virtual circuits – Improves flexibility for configuring p2p and multipoint services.
- Consumer-side readiness flag – Confirms service availability before activation, reducing errors.
- Visibility of on-ramps in product catalogue – Makes it easier to identify where services can be accessed.
- Enhanced security for shared data – Introduced sensitive property redaction and allow/deny policies for statistics sharing.
The above list isn’t extensive, and the team have been hard at work adding new functionality – see the full list of new features, click here.
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