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As part of the largest ever investment in the internet exchange’s infrastructure, INEX has selected Coriant’s Groove G30 interconnect platform to deliver 100G connectivity between its Dublin sites. Going live overnight tonight (11 October 2017), upgrading the metro connectivity to be 100G capable will future-proof the exchange’s services, and provides the capability to add additional capacity on an incremental basis. Sites will initially be connected at 200G across INEX’s dark…
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The Camden Court Hotel on Camden Street Dublin will be the location for the next INEX meeting on Thursday, 14th September. Registration on the day starts at 12:30 with presentations due to begin at 1pm. A great line of speakers including Veronica McKillop from Microsoft who will be talking about IPv6, Marijana Novakovic from LinkedIn who will be looking at developing peering tools, Linda Doyle from CONNECT at Trinity College…
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The INEX meeting and AGM will take place tomorrow, Thursday, 30th March, in the Marker Hotel from 1pm (registration opens at 12.30pm). The outline agenda for the meeting is: 1pm Welcome and introductions 1.10pm Nick Hilliard – BGP Large Communities 1.30pm Update from Operations – Barry O’Donovan 1.45 pm David Malone – What a difference a second makes 2.25pm Update from…
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INEX, Ireland’s internet peering point, has selected Arista Networks as the vendor to support the upgrade of the exchange infrastructure’s core from 10Gigabit to 100Gigabit on LAN1 in Dublin. The 100G upgrade is part of a €300K investment in the exchanges’ infrastructure and will be rolled out in Q1 2017. The Arista 7280R series was selected for INEX’s Dublin LAN1 infrastructure following extensive testing of multiple 100G platforms currently available…
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The INEX March meeting will take place on Thursday, 30th March in the Marker Hotel at Grand Canal Quay in Dublin 2. This meeting will incorporate the INEX AGM. The meeting is scheduled to begin at 12:30pm with registrations and coffee with presentations beginning at 1pm. The meeting, which is scheduled to finish at 5pm, will be followed by drinks and food in HQ Bar/Restaurant next door to the Marker…
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Traffic at INEX Cork exceeded 1GE for the first time on Sunday, 11 December with 1.133G of traffic over the exchange. The exchange, which officially launched in April this year, currently has 12 connections. Live statistics for INEX are available here (use the pull down menu to select the infrastructure you wish to view). Adding further to INEX Cork, an AS112 service went live in recent days which provides an anycast reverse…
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At the BEREC Expert Workshop on IP Interconnection, which took place in Brussels on 21 November, INEX CTO, Nick Hilliard presented “Making Sense of Measurement”. The workshop, which was in co-operation with the OECD included the latest results of a survey on trends in IP-interconnection. The goal of this third workshop, in the series, was to bring experts from the IP-interconnection community in contact with experts on interconnection from national regulatory…
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Nick and Eileen attended the RIPE73 meeting in Madrid and in addition to some great meetings with current and prospective members, Nick presented in a number of sessions at the conference. Links to his presentation are here: Address Policy WG Supermarket Checkouts, Airline Hand-Luggage and Other Trivia Connect WG – Exporting Flow Telemetry for Fun and Profit Open Source WG Bird’s Eye: A Simple Secure Micro Service for Querying Bird
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The call for sponsors of the next round of developments of IXP Manager has received great support with Internet Society, Netflix and SwissIX coming on board as Platinum sponsors and the Norwegian Internet Exchange giving its support as a Bronze sponsor. There are final sponsor positions still available and if your organisation is interested in supporting the ongoing development of the platform, please get in contact. IXP Manager, originally developed…
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INEX’s CTO, Nick Hilliard will be attending the RIPE 73 meeting in Madrid from 24 – 28 October and Eileen Gallagher will be there for Monday and Tuesday. Delighted to meet up with any existing members or those interested in finding out more about INEX and peering in Ireland. Nick will be speaking in the Connect working group on Wednesday, 26th at 12noon. What is a RIPE meeting? A RIPE…
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