Collaboration between NIC.br and PeeringDB is helping improve Internet traffic exchange in Brazil

PeeringDB is making available a database that facilitates communication between Autonomous Systems (AS); approximately 46% of Brazilian ASs have been registered with support from NIC.br

To improve Internet traffic flow both nationally and internationally, the Brazilian Network Information Center (NIC.br) has encouraged Brazilian Autonomous Systems to become a member of PeeringDB, a database with information about international entities that are interested in exchanging traffic maintained by a non-profit organization. Brazil has approximately eight thousand Autonomous Systems, including Internet content and service providers, universities, banks, government agencies and other institutions, 46% of which have already been registered with PeeringDB with the help of NIC.br.

“The Internet is formed by various companies and institutions that are interconnected and collaborate with each other. This traffic exchange process between autonomous systems is called peering. What PeeringDB does is make available a database with information about ASs, datacenters (facilities), Internet Exchanges (IXPs), including details on connections, prefixes, policies, and other aspects that facilitate communication between those institutions that make up the Internet. This is a service that has become a point of reference in the technical community, and many large companies are asking providers that are interested in exchanging traffic with them to update their registration on PeeringDB”, explains Julio Sirota, Infrastructure Manager for IX.br.

As well as voluntarily helping Brazilian ASs that need support with registering with PeeringDB, the professionals from NIC.br also demonstrate the importance of the initiative by promoting training courses and events, by translating the material from them into Portuguese and by being a member of the PeeringDB Administrative Committee, which means that support requests from Brazil can be answered in Portuguese. The number of Brazilian registrations grew by almost 20% in 2019, with the states of São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Ceará having the biggest percentage of ASs so far registered.

“IX.br is pleased to collaborate with PeeringDB because, in practice, we’re helping improve the exchange of Internet traffic, which is one of our main activities. It’s important that those ASs that have not yet registered with PeeringDB do so. In this way network administrators around the world will be able to make sure that the AS that’s asking to link up in fact exists. We’ll continue working to ensure that more autonomous systems become part of this community”, Sirota concludes.

According to Greg Hankins, Chair of the PeeringDB Outreach Committee, “working with NIC.br as a local partner has been extremely successful, which can be measured by the many registered users that Brazil has in PeeringDB”. According to Hankins, the intention is to continue the same strategy to evangelize PeeringDB in Brazil. “It has worked very well so far, and we want to keep up the good work that has been done”, he points out.

NIC.br publishes guides in Portuguese about registering with PeeringDB at: https:/ix.br/documentacao.

About PeeringDB
PeeringDB is a freely available, user-maintained, database of networks, and the go-to location for interconnection data. The database facilitates the global interconnection of networks at Internet Exchange Points (IXPs), data centers, and other interconnection facilities, and is the first stop in making interconnection decisions. The database is a non-profit, community-driven initiative run and promoted by volunteers. It is a public tool for the growth and good of the Internet. Join the community and support the continued development of the Internet.

About the Brazilian Network Information Center – NIC.br
The Brazilian Network Information Center (https://www.nic.br/) is a not-for-profit civil entity governed by private law, which in addition to implementing the decisions and projects of the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee, is also responsible for: coordinating the registration of domain names — Registro.br (https://www.registro.br/); studying, responding to and handling security incidents in Brazil — CERT.br (https://www.cert.br/); studying and researching network and operations technologies — Ceptro.br (https://www.ceptro.br/); producing indicators on information and communication technologies — Cetic.br (https://www.cetic.br/); implementing and operating Internet Exchange points — IX.br (https://ix.br/); enabling the participation of the Brazilian community in global development of the Web, and supporting the formulation of public policies — Ceweb.br (https://www.ceweb.br); and housing W3C office in Brazil (https://www.w3c.br/).

About the Brazilian Internet Steering Committee – CGI.br
The Brazilian Internet Steering Committee, which is responsible for establishing strategic guidelines relating to the use and development of the Internet in the country, coordinates and brings together all Internet service initiatives Brazil, promoting technical quality, innovation and the dissemination of its services. Based on the principles of multistakeholderism, transparency and democracy, CGI.br is a multi-sector Internet governance model, in whose decisions all sectors in society have an effectively participation. One of its formulations is the 10 Principles for Governance and the Use of the Internet (https://www.cgi.br/principios). Further information is available at: https://www.cgi.br/. 

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