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INEX is a neutral, industry-owned Association, founded in 1996, that provides IP peering facilities for its members. INEX membership is open to all organisations that can benefit from peering their IP traffic. There are currently 109 members.
Our objective is to provide high-speed, reliable and resilient IP traffic exchange facilities for both Irish and International organisations, allowing them to route IP traffic efficiently thereby providing faster, more reliable and lower-latency internet access for their customers. The INEX switching centres are located in five secure data centres around Dublin; Telecity Group in both Kilcarbery Park and Citywest Business Campus, Interxion DUB1 and Interxion DUB2 in Park West, and the Vodafone data centre in Clonshaugh. The infrastructure is connected by dedicated resilient fibre links.
INEX is a member of Euro-IX.
The June INEX Meeting was held in the IAA, D’Olier Street,Dublin.
Following the very successful inaugural forum held in Sheffield in 2015, the second UK and Ireland Peering Forum was held in Dublin
Following its successful launch in early April, INEX Cork has been boosted further by the announcement that a new Root DNS Server instance - a critical component of supporting infrastructure on the Internet - will be hosted in Cork by INEX. Root DNS servers are used as part of the process to convert domain names (e.g.inex.ie) into their IP addresses (e.g. 192.0.2.1) and are critical to ensuring the efficient operation of the Internet.
The launch of INEX Cork will take place on Thursday, 7th April in the Clarion Hotel, Cork City. The launch will take place at 12.00 Noon and will be followed at 12.30pm by a buffet lunch. If you would like to attend the launch and mark this significant boost to Internet infrastructure in the Cork and the South West region, please contact eileen.gallagher@inex.ie. You can download the official invitation here.
INEX Welcomes Its 100th Member and Completes Its Successful Hosting of ICANN54 Meeting in Dublin
2,400 Delegates Attend To Discuss Policy and Process For The Management of The Internet
INEX, Ireland’s Internet Exchange, is pleased to announce that its 2015 port charges have been significantly reduced for the 7th year running. At €800 per month, a 10 Gigabit port costs less than a third of what it cost in 2007, and less than a 1 Gigabit port cost at that time (now €200 per month).
INEX The Roaring 20s – Thursday, September 22nd, 2016
To celebrate INEX's 20th Anniversary, INEX - The Roaring 20s event will take place at 5:30pm on Thursday, 22nd September in the Liquor Rooms at 7 Wellington Quay, Dublin 2 (beside the Clarence Hotel).
After the brief EGM, we will have an intro from Barry Rhodes and following that a Fireside Chat event which will be facilitated by Alex French, an INEX Member from the very early days. Alex will be talking through INEX and Irish internet history with a number of people from the early days of the exchange and the industry highlighting some of the key moments and funny stories from those times.
We'll hear about the process of getting agreement between the founder organisations, the early data centre challenges and the costs of connectivity back then. We'll also hear about the unique challenges of bringing internet connectivity to islands off the west coast of Ireland and navigating the unusual challenges of delivering services both side of the border in Donegal/Derry.
At 6:30, the event will move to the The Roaring 20s party in the Rabbit Room speakeasy of the Liquor Rooms for drinks, food and entertainment.
We have had a great response to the invitation to far with a number of those involved from the very early days coming along to share their stories and meet former colleagues. If you would like to join us, please send an email to rsvp@inex.ie
If you have stories from the early days either in INEX or in the bringing to life of the internet anywhere in the country, we'd love to hear from you. Email eileen.gallagher@inex.ieUK and Ireland Peering Forum / INEX June Meeting – Monday, June 20th, 2016
The June INEX Meeting was held in the IAA, D’Olier Street,Dublin.
Following the very successful inaugural forum held in Sheffield in 2015, the second UK and Ireland Peering Forum was held in Dublin
The UK and Ireland Peering forum was open to all peering/networking professionals who peer at any of the four IXPs who are hosting the event - INEX, IX Leeds, LINX or LONAP. Both events were held at the Irish Aviation Authority Conference Centre on D'Olier Street in Dublin 2. Full details are here https://www.ukandirelandpeering.net/
As usual, the INEX meeting was open to all INEX Members and those from the networking/internet community.
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Danny McFadden: Networking Professional
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Networking With The Penguins
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Following his return to Ireland after an 18 month stint on Antarctica, Danny will give an insight to the challenges of networking at the bottom of the world.
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Neil Wisdom: Managing Director, Intellicom
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Five Minutes of Fame - Intellicom
The UK and Ireland Peering Forum will start at 9am on Monday, 20th June and following some brief presentations will provide an opportunity for those attending to hold one-to-one 'peering personals' meetings with other delegates. A link to arrange these 'peering personals' will be provided soon.
The INEX meeting will begin after lunch at 1:30 with speakers including Danny McFadden who will be giving his talk, Networking with the Penguins. Danny has recently returned from an 18 month stay on Rothera in Antarctica and his talk will look at some of the challenges of running a network on the bottom of the World.
Orla McGann of HEAnet will do some mythbusting with a presentation entitled 'We don't Need No Education (Networks)'
With his book hot off the presses, Niall Murphy, head of ads reliability engineering, Google Dublin will be giving a talk on 'Site reliability engineering, what it is and how it's relevant to networking' If you want to do some light research before hand, here's the book. http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920041528.do We might even rustle up a book or two for him to sign.
We're delighted to welcome Anurag Bhatia of Hurricane Electric who is travelling to Dublin for the UK & Ireland Peering Forum and the INEX meeting. We're particularly delighted that he has agreed to give a talk while he's at the meeting and we're looking forward to hearing his thoughts on 'Performance of root DNS anycast in Ireland and UK'.
We are also pleased to have Five Minutes of Fame presentations from a number of our newer members:
Neil Wisdom, Intellicom
John Crawford, Juniper Networks
Derek Finlay, Wood Communications
On top of all those, we will have our usual 'look under the bonnet' presentations from the team at INEX.
Following the event, there will be a social event local to the meeting venue.
To register for the UK and Ireland Peering Forum visit https://ukandirelandpeering.net/ and you will see the link to register there.
To register for the INEX meeting, drop us an email at rsvp@inex.ie
Many thanks to Interxion who are very kindly sponsoring the INEX meeting in the afternoon and assisting with the social. We appreciate the support!
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