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Delighted to share that this week XPManager, born here at INEX, has reached the remarkable achievement of Powering Peering at more than 250 Internet Exchange Points around the world. What began as an internal project to help INEX operate a robust, resilient and efficient network has grown into a global platform that is facilitating the interconnection of 13,500 networks at IXPs around the world. IXP Manager has enabled INEX to cost-effectively grow…

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of IXP Manager v7.0.0. This is a major upgrade of the underlying Laravel framework and introduces a new required PHP version of v8.4. We recognise that mandating a new PHP version is a significant change for our users and often requires an underlying operating system upgrade. However, the technologies on which v6.x is built have passed their end-of-support and security maintenance periods.…

We are delighted to announce that INEX will serve as the local host for the ICANN84 Annual General Meeting, taking place from 25–30 October 2025 at the Convention Centre Dublin. This meeting was originally scheduled to be held in Oman. Following the decision to move the meeting to Dublin, we were approached by ICANN to act as local host, as we did in 2015. While our window to develop extensive…

Due to term limits for the Chair in the INEX Constitution, Annemette Broch (Westnet) ceases to be Chairperson of INEX today 28th of July 2025. The Board has agreed that Brian Nisbet (HEAnet) will take on the Chair role at INEX. The INEX team would like to acknowledge and thank Annemette for her contribution over the past three years. We also look forward to working with Brian as he steps…

Dear members,  As announced at our last meeting, we are now delighted to launch the first INEX member survey. We designed these questions to help us understand how INEX can better support our member organisations and their needs. Our aim is also to keep it concise, so completing it should take only a short amount of time. Your feedback is invaluable to us and as a thank you for your time…

Dear INEX members, Many of you expressed a special interest in Dr Deirdre Kilbane’s (Walton Institute) presentation at our March meeting and wanted to know more about IrelandQCI, the ‘Building a National Quantum Communication Infrastructure for Ireland’ project. I am delighted to announce that QCI Ireland has agreed to invite a limited number of INEX members to their QCI Ireland event this July. Join representatives from Ireland and the European…

The adjourned 2023 AGM will reconvene on Thursday 9th May 2024 at 17:00hrs (Irish Standard Time) 16:00 UTC via Zoom. If you are a member of INEX instructions on how to attend and vote have been issued by the Board Chairperson and Board Secretary on the members list.

Some of INEX highlights this year: Over 2 exabytes of traffic flowed over INEX in 2023 // In 2023, INEX attained the ISO27001 cyber security standard // IXP Manager, developed by INEX, is in use at over 218 IXPs around the World // We welcomed 10 new members to the exchange

Dear INEX members,  Our Irish National Cyber Security Centre held a webinar on October 20th on NIS2 – EU Critical Infrastructure law transposing currently into Irish Statutes for Oct 24th 2024 go live. A. RECORDING of the  webinar can be viewed at https://www.ncsc.gov.ie/nis2/B. QUICK REFERENCE GUIDES FOR NIS2 (DIRECTIVE FOR A HIGH COMMON LEVEL OF CYBERSECURITY ACROSS THE UNION GUIDE:  https://www.ncsc.gov.ie/pdfs/NCSC_NIS2_Guide.pdf C. NIS2 AWARENESS RAISING MATERIAL in advance of the national transposition of NIS2, a number…