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100 User Milestone Passed in Style 130 IXPs globally are now Powering Peering with IXP Manager, making it the largest and most used peering platform in the world. These IXPs incorporate 7,561 individual switch ports peering over the IXP Manager platform around the world, delivering a total connected capacity exceeding 73 Terabits/sec. There are 3,720 unique networks connected to the 130 IXPs with an aggregate peak traffic in excess of…
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At the recent event on IPv6 hosted by the team at IT@Cork, INEX CTO, Nick Hilliard gave a presentation – an Introduction to IPv6 which was alongside a talk from founder and Managing Director of CloudCIX, Jerry Sweeney on Getting Ready for IPv6 Binary and Hexadecimal Addressing. Nick Hilliard speaking about IPv6 in the recent IT@Cork event These talks are an excellent introduction for those new to the industry or…
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92 IXPs around the world are Powering Peering with IXP Manager110 community individuals have contributed to the IXP Manager project through GitHub104 software releases over ten years New website located at https://www.ixpmanager.org/ There are almost one hundred internet exchange points (IXPs) around the world that are Powering Peering using IXP Manager, including INEX where the platform was first developed. In recognition of this upcoming milestone, a new website for IXP Manager, which provides a better insight to the world’s favourite IXP platform has been…
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The OECD has released a report in recent days “Keeping the internet up and running during times of crisis” which has taken a look at the impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic and subsequent lock-down of countries on internet networks. Overall, it communicates that the internet in general has withstood the demands placed upon it, thus far, and highlights a number of interesting stats including some on the changing profile of traffic peaks…
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It feels much longer to many of us but it’s only 18 days since the Irish Government, in the interests of reducing the community spread of Coronavirus, announced the closure of schools and asked those of us that could work from home to do so. As we wrote recently, INEX has been preparing for an expected increase in traffic due to Covid-19 since the start of February, which included: 30%…
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Top Line Data for Covid-19 at INEX: Core capacity of the INEX network increased by 30%20% traffic growth since the lockdown30% extra port capacity provisioned for membersA record level of traffic (482Gbits) over INEX was recorded on March 24th, coinciding with An Taoiseach’s address to the nation. INEX began planning around the then emerging risk of Covid-19 in early-February, identifying risks and possible ways in which the IXP could mitigate…
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An EGM of INEX took place on January 30th at which the following board directors were elected: Annemette Broch, David Burke, Des Chambers, Ed Diggin, Rob Evans, Shane Hartigan, Tom Strickx and Jerry Sweeney A short board meeting was held after the EGM at which Shane Hartigan was elected Chairperson and Rob Evans as Secretary. The remaining officer positions of Treasurer and Vice Chairperson will be elected at the next board meeting, which will take place…
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INEX has reduced its port charges at all speeds for 2020 and to encourage continued support of connections to LAN2, a 10Gb port is available free of charge to all members with a port at 10Gb or higher speed in place on LAN1. Port charges at INEX for 2020 100Gb ports are €18,000 (additional 100Gb ports €14,400) 10Gb ports are €3,600 (first 10Gb port on LAN2 free and additional ports…
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An INEX Extraordinary General Meeting was held on 26th September 2019 to replace three Board members who resigned their positions. The following Member representatives were elected to the INEX Board at that meeting: Ronan Lupton (Independent / Barrister / ALTO), John McDonnell (Ripplecom) and Ronan Mullally (Akamai). They join Garrett Burke, (Egenera) INEX Secretary, Michael Kennedy, (RTE) INEX Treasurer, Andrew Maybin (Tibus), Orla McGann, (Titania Networks) INEX Chairperson and Marijana…
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INEX is pleased to announce the release of IXP Manager v5.1.0. This release includes support for the just released version 1.0 of the IX-F Member List JSON schema from Euro-IX, the European Internet Exchange Association, and includes some bug fixes from the earlier v5.0 release. IXP Manager v5.0 is successfully running at a number of IXPs around the world, following its release in May. For those who were waiting to…
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