NextFeed is the largest Global Usenet News Feed Exchange Point in the world.

ISP's and specialized News Providers can connect their Usenet News Feed Server(s) to the NextFeed ethernet infrastructure on a 100 Mbit/s, 1.000 Mbit/s or 10 Gbit/s port (in a Amsterdam datacenter) and exchange feeds directly with a whealth of other participants on sub-millisecond delay times, maximum bandwidth and with superb robustness.

Advantages of direct Nextfeed peering

Advantages of the NextFeed for participating ISP's and news providers include:

• A wide selection of potential peering partners is available via one connection;
• Direct News peering is extremely robust;
• No BGP peering session between parties nor (BGP) routers are needed;
• No hops between you and your peers;
• News peering conitinues independently, even during problems with or maintenance on your BGP network or upstreams;
• Minimal delay (less then 1 millisecond);
• Maximum bandwidth;
• No other traffic then news on the Ethernet;
• Easy to monitor;
• Easy to manage;
• Ports and VLAN are managed and under monitoring 24*7 by the NL-ix NOC;
• Secure: only participants have access to the ethernet;
• A seperate non-globally routable block of IP space is used, so the traffic will never go over your expensive transit connection.

Disadvantages of alternatives

Exchanging news feeds over the Internet is normally much more expensive (charged per Mbit/s), slower and less robust; Exchanging news feeds over a general public Internet Exchange introduces higher delays, puts havier loads on the BGP routers inbetween, is more difficult to monitor and manage, and requires you to have BGP4 peering with the other party before news peering is possible. Further it is more difficult to find interesting peers on an Internet Exchange; Exchanging news feeds via a private peering requires both parties to be on the same location. Further this model does not scale.

Nextfeed Infrastructure

NextFeed is run on a seperate ethernet VLAN and dedicated ports on the NL-ix Internet Exchange infrastructure in Amsterdam, Holland.

Participants global Top1000 ranking

This ranking is based on the duplicates-free monthly top1000.

Ranking	Participant	Domain
#1	News-Service.com	news-service.com
#2	GigaNews	giganews.com
#4	Astraweb (Searchtech)	astraweb.com
#7	Tweaknews (Cambrium)	tweaknews.nl
#8	Eweka (Highwinds)	eweka.nl
#9	XSnews	xsnews.nl
#14	XLned (Euroaccess)	xlned.com
#40	CAIW	kabelfoon.nl
#46	Hitnews (Xentech)	hitnews.eu
#125	Tata Com. (Teleglobe/VSNL)	teleglobe.net

Address range

For the NextFeed the block 193.201.147.64/27 has been reserved. Below the allocations to individual news servers from this block.

IP	Host/Provider	Site	Speed	Direction	Status	Feeder
						Info	Software	Statistics	Interface	Spool	Rentention
65	Tweaknews	NIKHEF	10.000 Mbit/s	In+Out	Up and running					20 TB	10 days
66	CAIW	SARA	100 Mbit/s	Out	Up and running	Info	Diablo	Statistics
67	Tweaknews	NIKHEF	10.000 Mbit/s	In+Out	Up and running					20 TB	10 days
68	News-Service.com (1)	Telecity 2	10.000 Mbit/s	In+Out	Up and running		Diablo	Statistics			160 days
69	CAIW	SARA	100 Mbit/s	In	Up and running	Info	Diablo	Statistics
70	Concepts ICT	NIKHEF	100 Mbit/s	In+Out	Up and running			Statistics
71	XLned (2)	Telecity 2	10.000 Mbit/s	In+Out	Installing	Info	Diablo	Statistics		60 TB	30 days
72	Highwinds/Eweka	NIKHEF	10.000 Mbit/s	In+Out	Up and running	Info	Diablo	Lightspeed, hq	Interface	6*50 TB	40 days
73	GigaNews	Telecity 1	1.000 Mbit/s	In+Out	Up and running						50 days
75	Intouch	NIKHEF	1.000 Mbit/s	In+Out	Installing
77	GigaNews	Telecity 1	1.000 Mbit/s	In+Out	Up and running						50 days
78	News-Service.com (2)	Telecity 2	10.000 Mbit/s	In+Out	Installing		Diablo	Statistics			160 days
79	Hitnews	SARA	1.000 Mbit/s	In+Out	Up and running	Info	Diablo	Statistics		400 TB	100+ days
80	Astraweb (1)	NIKHEF	10.000 Mbit/s	In+Out	Up and running						15 days
81	XS News (1)	Interxion AMS5	10.000 Mbit/s	In+Out	Up and running	Info	Diablo	Statistics	Interface	400 TB	120 days
84	XLned (1)	Telecity 2	10.000 Mbit/s	In+Out	Up and running	Info	Diablo	Statistics		60 TB	30 days
85	XS News (2)	Interxion AMS5	10.000 Mbit/s	In+Out	Up and running	Info	Diablo	Statistics	Interface	400 TB	120 days
86	Astraweb (2)	NIKHEF	10.000 Mbit/s	In+Out	Installing						15 days
87	Astraweb (3)	NIKHEF	10.000 Mbit/s	In+Out	Installing						15 days
88	Tweaknews	NIKHEF	10.000 Mbit/s	In+Out	Up and running					20 TB	10 days
89	TATA Communications	SARA	1.000 Mbit/s	In+Out	Installing
90	XS News (3)	Interxion AMS5	10.000 Mbit/s	In+Out	Up and running	Info	Diablo	Statistics	Interface	400 TB	120 days

Where can you connect?

NextFeed connections are available and practically all Amsterdam (The Netherlands) neutral datacenters.

Available port speeds 100 Mbit/s port are 100 Euro per month (250 Euro install). However, when NextFeed is used to receive or distribute full news feeds (so not text-only), 100 Mbit/s will not be enough. 1.000 MBit/s ports are 350 Euro per month (500 Euro install). 10 Gbit/s ports are 1.000 Euro per month (and 1.000 Euro install). Parties already connected to the NL-ix Internet Exchange can get access to NextFeed for free on their existing port (which is then put in dot1.q VLAN trunking mode to receive the extra VLAN vor NextFeed).

How to join

For more information and for connection requests, please contact us at info@nextfeed.nl.

Links

General

• NL-ix Internet Exchange
• The Official Usenet Top1000 Servers page

Wikipedia

• Wikipedia on Usenet
• Wikipedia on News Servers
• Wikipedia on News Server Operation

Software

• Diablo - News Feed Software
• Cleanfeed
• INN - News feed Software
• Open Directory Usenet Server Software List

Newsfeed Multicast

• MCNTP - Transport of NetNews over IP Multicast
• MNNP - Draft for a Multicast Network News distripution Protocol
• NewsCaster - News Multicast architecture

Find peers

Documentation

• DMOZ - Open Directory Usenet List
• Tin - News related RFC's and drafts
• O'Reilly - Managing Usenet