{"id":112534,"date":"2022-12-12T16:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/?p=112534"},"modified":"2024-10-25T16:16:21","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T14:16:21","slug":"ixps-federation-project-for-structura-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/en\/ixps-federation-project-for-structura-x\/","title":{"rendered":"IXPs federation project for Structura-X"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The TOP-IX Consortium, as a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/en\/2020\/11\/18\/top-ix-consortium-is-gaia-x-day-1-member\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Day-one member<\/a>&nbsp;of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gaia-x.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gaia-X<\/a>&nbsp;and founding member of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gaia-x.eu\/news\/latest-news\/structura-x-lighthouse-project-for-european-cloud-infrastructure-is-launched-concrete-implementation-and-alignment-with-the-gaia-x-roadmap-of-compatible-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Structura-X<\/a>, the Gaia-X lighthouse project involving 28 industrial entities from 10 European countries with the common goal of building a federated infrastructure for the European cloud, participated in the recent&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/gaia-x.eu\/news\/latest-news\/the-gaia-x-summit-explained-what-are-the-concrete-steps-forward\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Gaia-X Summit 2022<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/public\/uploads\/2024\/10\/TOP-IX-al-Gaia-X-Summit-300x169-1.jpg\" alt=\"\u00a0TOP-IX at Gaia-X Summit 2022\" class=\"wp-image-112530\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: -webkit-standard; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none;\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>TOP-IX at Gaia-X Summit 2022<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/en\/2021\/12\/20\/structura-x-lighthouse-project-for-european-cloud-infrastructure\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Structura-X<\/a>, together with Engineering Ingegneria Informatica Spa, Aruba SpA, Politecnico di Torino, CSI-Piemonte, IONOS and DE-CIX, TOP-IX implemented and presented a PoC of&nbsp;<strong>an Internet Exchange and Cloud Service Provider federation as an enabling technology for extending Kubernetes clusters across different administrative domains<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Internet Exchange federation project has attracted considerable interest from a number of European stakeholders and proves to be an important driver in propelling TOP-IX and Internet Exchanges toward a new paradigm, in which&nbsp;<strong>the network platform becomes an ecosystem for delivering distributed, scalable, and resilient cloud services<\/strong>. Adoption of the Federation Services framework will also ensure compliance with Gaia-X governance and enrich the range of cloud and connectivity services that TOP-IX, its consortium members and other IXs can deliver and consume on the federated infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The TOP-IX Consortium, as a\u00a0Day-one member\u00a0of\u00a0Gaia-X\u00a0and founding member of\u00a0Structura-X, the Gaia-X lighthouse project involving 28 industrial entities from 10 European countries with the common goal of building a federated infrastructure for the European cloud, participated in the recent\u00a0Gaia-X Summit 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":112366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[321,317,300,43],"tags":[426,734,732,733],"class_list":["post-112534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-development-innovation","category-cloud-computing","category-development-program","category-interconnections","tag-cloud-provider-2","tag-interconnection","tag-ixps-federation","tag-structura-x-2"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112535,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112534\/revisions\/112535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-ix.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}