Today’s Internet relies on BGP to exchange routing information between networks worldwide. Over decades, BGP has proven to be highly scalable and a strong foundation for global connectivity. As digital services become more critical, there is a growing opportunity to build on this foundation by enhancing capabilities such as end to end path validation and routing assurance. Developments like RPKI have already strengthened routing security, and the industry continues to move towards greater transparency, control and resilience.
SCION represents one of these next steps.
SCION, short for Scalability, Control and Isolation on Next Generation Networks, introduces path aware networking with cryptographic path validation. This allows endpoints and network operators to select and verify the exact paths their traffic takes across the network. The result is greater control, improved transparency, and increased resilience for latency sensitive and mission critical services.
At AMS-IX, this future is already being explored in practice.
Our SCION exchange in Amsterdam connects SURF, SIDN Labs, Varity and Anapaya in a dedicated environment where SCION runs alongside traditional BGP peering. Participants can evaluate real world performance, operational models and interoperability at Internet Exchange scale.
This is enabled by our Juniper based platform, which provides the programmability and performance required to support new architectures while maintaining the reliability of existing services.
Because SCION is still evolving, now is a great time to get involved, gain hands on experience, and help shape how this technology develops.
Whether you are an engineer, a business leader, or exploring new opportunities for your customers, SCION offers a practical and forward looking way to innovate.
Interested in seeing how this works in practice?
Join the AMS-IX SCION experiment and explore what the next generation of interconnection could look like.
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