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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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INEX CTO, Nick Hilliard delivered a blog post to APNIC on the background, ambitions and challenges that INEX had in adding RPKI support to IXP Manager. Read the full blog here: https://blog.apnic.net/2019/06/19/ixp-manager-adds-rpki-support-in-new-release/
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IXP Manager 5.0 has now been released. This is a major update to the platform with 970 files changed, 79020 insertions(+), 87488 deletions(-). IXP Manager 5.0 is now available to the 70+ IXPs around the world who are using the platform. Nick Hilliard and Barry O’Donovan from the INEX Operations team were keen to include recognition of the support that Barry Rhodes RIP gave to the IXP Manager project, reflecting…
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In this article, we talk about the new route servers that we deployed across all three peering platforms at INEX during February 2019 and, particularly, RPKI support. Most route server instances at internet exchanges (IXPs) perform prefix filtering based on route/route6 objects published by internet routing registries (IRRDBs). INEX members would be used to creating these through RIPE’s database. However there are many other registries and the data quality of…
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Happy RPKI Day at INEX! We have gone ‘all in’ with RPKI and as of the early hours of this morning, 1) RPKI is fully implemented in IXP Manager’s router configuration generator for Bird v2 🎉 This will be released in the coming weeks as IXP Manager v5. 2) Bird’s Eye, INEX’s micro service for programmatic / API access to Bird was upgraded to support Bird v2. To test both…
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With the release of IXP Manager v4.9.0 on 7 January, 2019, a two year project to migrate the underlying application development framework for IXP Manager has been successfully completed. The new Laravel framework enables automation of a number of back-end processes in the development of the IXP Manager platform, delivering cost savings on developer time by removing repeatable tasks and reducing the requirement for bug fixing. In the application development…
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INEX port charges have once again been reduced for 2019. With reductions of up to 20% on 2018 charges, INEX is committed to delivering good value to members. These reductions have been made possible by the implementation of further efficiencies in the running of the IXP via IXP Manager and additional members coming on board and sharing the operating costs. For 2019, 100GE ports will be €23,400 (MRC €1,950) for…
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Following a brief period of illness, Barry Rhodes died on September 21st 2018. He joined INEX in 2013 and under his leadership the organisation has developed into one of the most respected IXPs in the world. The INEX team, membership and the wider internet community are grateful for his enormous contribution both professionally and personally. Barry casually exuded gravitas that naturally won peoples’ confidence and respect. His ease at being…
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