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Agenda
March 1-2, 2010
The NL-ix 'IPv6 Routing' and the 'BGP4 routing' courses in December
The NL-ix 'IPv6 Routing' and the 'BGP4 routing' courses in March
On monday March 1, the quarterly NL-ix BGP4 course is helt again.
The next day, on tuesday March 2, the IPv6 Routing course is helt.
There are still a few seats available for both courses.
For registration and course detail info, please have a look on the
course page.
March 1-2, 2010
2009 News
September 25, 2009
Looking back to the NL-ix "Late Summer Drink 2009", wednesday September 23
Januari 14, 2009
NL-ix welcomes BREEZZ as its 200th member
Looking back to the NL-ix 'Late Summer Drink 2009', wednesday September 23
NL-ix thanks everyone who visited the Late Summer Drink 2009.
We are happy that so many of you found your way to the beach.
September 25, 2009
Last week, NL-ix celebrated the fact that already the 200th member
'Breezz Netherlands' has joined NL-ix. Less than 10 years after
founding, this means that NL-ix has firmly joined the Top 5 of worlds'
largest Internet Exchanges (members counted).
NL-ix welcomes BREEZZ as its 200th member
Januari 14, 2009
This strong grow is partly due to the fact that The Netherlands is
anyhow becoming the largest Internet interconnect point in the world
with two big Internet Exchanges and many professional datacenters.
But moreover, the NL-ix specific is very much appreciated by new members
like Breezz due to the wide scale of additional tailormade support it
offers on top of the usual peering services, and now being offered in
already 28 datacenters.
"Breezz Netherlands offers its customers Internet-telephony at the
highest quality standards. Therefore it is crucial for us to connect our
VOIP-servers in the best possible way to the heart of the Internet.
NL-ix turned out to be the best party for that, not at least since NL-ix
could also offer us all kind of customized AS, IP and BGP-support, which
is rather unique for an Internet Exchange" , states Gert van den Berg,
MD of Breezz.
"These days, it is remarkable and fun to notice that Internet
Exchanges are not only being used anymore by traditional 'provider-type'
company's, but also by all kind of other Internet players. Sometimes the
argument is 'costs', other times 'redundancy' is more important, many
times 'good peerings' are key, but not rare all these things are
crucial. We therefore are delighted to welcome Breezz as the 200th
member ! , adds Marc Gauw, Commercial Director of NL-ix.
2008 News
October 23, 2008
EcoServer 'Host bewust' seminar
October 7, 2008
Free IPv6 Internet connectivity till end 2009
September 24, 2008
The first NL-ix Late Summer Drink at the beach
July 1, 2008
NL-ix introduces the first NL-ix newsletter
March 10, 2008
NL-ix introduces NL Datacenter Google Map
Februari 8, 2008
The 175th member connected to NL-ix!
Januari 2, 2008
New datacenters Spaanse Kubus and Grafix NOC
EcoServer 'Host bewust' seminar
October 23, 2008
NL-ix was guestspeaker at
Ecoservers
'Host Bewust'
seminar, October 23, 2008, Van der Valk Hotel Breukelen.
At this seminar, Ecoserver, NL-ix and others highlighted most recent trends in the hosting world and how
to achieve savings on the various costs.
As known, the worldwide pool of 'IPv4' IP-numbers is rapidly getting exhausted.
The current expectation is that on November 27, 2010, no IP-addresses will be
available anymore at IANA based upon the old 'IPv4' protocol.
Free 'IPv6' Internet connectivity till end 2009
October 7, 2008
However, since many years already, there is a new protocol available 'IPv6' that
is supporting an almost
unlimited amount of new IP-addresses.
Nevertheless, at the recent European Peering Forum in Dublin the various attendants
concluded that the transition from 'IPv4' to 'IPv6' is going much to slow and needs
to be stimulated.
As a follow-up on this, the Netherlands Internet Exchange NL-ix (www.nl-ix.net),
together with its sister-company Joint Transit (www.jointtransit.nl), decided to take
firm steps by launching a free IPv6 promotion campaign.
In this action, all NL-ix connected members are being offered to take a free-of-charge
100 Mb IPv6 Transit-port till end 2009.
With this promotion NL-ix again hopes to contribute significantly in getting many more
Internet companies familiar with the 'IPv6'-protocol.
Contact us for more information on this action:
info@nl-ix.net and
info@jointtransit.nl.
On wednesday September 24, NL-ix helt the first Late Summer Drink
at the beach of Scheveningen (beachclub Culpepper) for members and relations.
With almost 100 visitors and a very relaxed environment the Drink was a huge
success and will surely be repeated next year!
The first NL-ix Late Summer Drink at the beach
September 24, 2008
NL-ix introduces the first NL-ix newsletter
NL-ix introduces it's first Newsletter, distributed to all customers and relations. The newsletter keeps
you readers up to date with developments within NL-ix and the market and will be distributed 4 times per
year. Please have a look at the 1st issue of the
newsletter
July 1, 2008
.
NL-ix introduces NL Datacenter Google Map
March 10, 2008
NL-ix has set up a Google Map which contains 'all' Dutch
datacenters and made it available for everybody. The map
can be used as a tool to select a nearby datacenter, or
to specifically select Carrier Neutral datacenters, which
are defined to have at least either the AMS-IX or NL-ix
Internet Exchange in house, and to have multipe Global Transit
Carriers offering local services.
The map can be found
here.
The 175th member connected to NL-ix!
The NL-ix membercount has yet again grown rapidly from 152 less then a year ago,
to 175 now. NL-ix expects the growth will increase and the mebercount will cross
the 200-member barrier before the end of 2008!
Please have a look at the current
memberlist.
Februari 8, 2008
New datacenters Spaanse Kubus and Grafix NOC
Januari 2, 2008
New NL-ix datacenter presences where opened just
now in Rotterdam (Spaanse Kubus) and Capelle aan den IJssel (Grafix NOC).
This expands the NL-ix Dutch coverage to a new and economically important
region. All NL-ix services are available on this site from now on.
News Archive
2007
November 7, 2007
NL-ix organized the Autonomous Routing fair
September 20, 2007
New NL-ix datacenter euNetworks connected
July 27, 2007
NL-ix is the 5th largest Internet Exchange in the world
February 7, 2007
Migration from single core to 8-site multi-core mesh in progress
2006
August 23, 2006
The entire NL-ix backbone is now Foundry switch based: last Cisco's replaced
August 2, 2006
Backbone links upgraded: Redbus to 20 Gbit, Easynet to 10 Gbit
July 26, 2006
NL-ix core switch upgraded to Foundry RX-16
June 19, 2006
New datacenter Enertel, Aalsmeer connected
March 27, 2006
Renumbering and expansion of NL-ix peering VLAN finished
2005
October 6, 2005
NL-ix crosses 10 Gigabit/s traffic
July 6, 2005
Multiple backbone links upgraded to 10 Gigabit/s
May 20, 2005
Storm control protects NL-ix backbone and customers
February 14, 2005
NL-ix now also at the KPN CyberCenter
2004
November 5, 2004
NL-ix crosses 5 Gigabit/s traffic
October 27, 2004
NL-ix hosts Massive Internet 2004
2003
November 25, 2003
MediaGateway operational
September 19, 2003
ISP2003 fair - Everything for the ISP
2002
September 25, 2002
NL-ix distributes: new site in Ede
July 16, 2002
NL-ix will be at Megabit 2002
June 16, 2002
Telecity-1 site announced
May 7, 2002
Interxion site announced
April 23, 2002
SARA and Nikhef sites operational
March 1, 2002
New Internet Exchange NL-ix announced
NL-ix organized the Autonomous Routing fair
November 7, 2007
On November 7 NL-ix hosted the Autonomous Routing fair, which is
actually a follow-up on the ISP 2003 fair. Again, the fair was held
in the
Museum voor Communicatie.
This time there where 25 exposants, which showed everything
one needs for for doing you own (BGP4 based) routing.
New NL-ix datacenter euNetworks connected
Yet another NL-ix presence has been opened, this time in the euNetworks datacenter.
This datacenter is very centrally located within Amsterdam, and can therefor connect
to other Amsterdam datacenters with very short fiber lengths. Please have a look
at the current list of NL-ix datacenters.
All NL-ix services are available on this site from now on.
September 20, 2007
NL-ix is the 5th largest Internet Exchange in the world
July 27, 2007
On the Wikipedia lemma on the list of Internet Exchange point by size,
sorted on the IX membercount, NL-ix shows up as the fith largest exchange
point in the world, right after AMS-IX (also Holland), DE-CIX (Germany),
LINX (London) and MSK-IX (Moskou) but before for example JPIX and JPNAP (Tokyo, Japan),
NYIIX (New York, USA), HKIX (Hong Kong, China), SFINX (PAris, France) or
Netnod (Stockholm, Sweden).
Migration from single core to 8-site multi-core mesh in progress
NL-ix is migrating from a single-core (Nikhef) star shaped network
architecture to a multi-core mesh network architecure with 8 core
sites: euNetworks, GlobalSwitch, Mediagateway, Nikhef, SARA,
Telcity AMS1, AMS2, and AMS3f (formerly Redbus2f). The migration
is planned to be completed during the summer of 2007.
February 7, 2007
Each core node has multiple (target is at least 4) dark fibers
to other core sites, preferably of different fiber carriers and
over different physical fiber path and building entries, and lightes
at n*10 Gbit/s speeds each.
All core sites implement Foundry BigIron
RX or MG8 switches and use CWDM or DWDM switches to enable multiple
wavelengths over eacht phycical fiber for both backbone and customer
usage.
All other NL-ix sites are preferably connected to two different
core sites over diverse physical fiber paths and 10 Gbit/s
capacity, where available.
The entire NL-ix backbone is now Foundry switch based: last Cisco's replaced
The process of migrating all switches in the NL-ix backbone
from Cisco to Foundry was today completed. The last remaining
(fixed-configuration) Cisco switches at the InterxionAMS1 and
Schuberg Philis datacenters where today replaced by Foundry
BigIron 4000 switches.
August 23, 2006
Now all switches on all datacenters are of the same brand, are
chassis-based, enabling easy port-expansion, can share the same
pool of spare parts, have the same management interface and have
a consistent feature set over the entire platform. This makes
maintenance more efficient and reduces the chance on configuration
errors (only one interface, less exceptions).
Backbone links upgraded: Redbus to 20 Gbit, Easynet to 10 Gbit
The NL-ix backbone capacity has been expanded. The primary
connection of the Redbus datacenter has been upgraded to
a 2 * 10 Gigabit load balancing trunk over diversely routed
fibers to provide more capacity and redundancy. Furthermore,
the primary link of the Easynet datacenter has been upgraded
to 10 gigabit ethernet. Apart from these core links, both
datacenters also have multiple links to other NL-ix
datacenters used for backup and special purposes.
August 2, 2006
NL-ix core switch upgraded to Foundry RX-16
June 26, 2006
The NL-ix core switch, at the Nikhef location, has been
upgraded to a
Foundry RX-16
switch.
This switch has substantial redundancy features (redundant switch fabrics,
power supplies, management blades), a adaptive selfrouting Clos
switch fabric architecture, wirespeed non-blocking performance
on all ports, capacity for upto 64 ten gigabit or 768 gigabit
ethernet ports, and is ready to support 40 and 100 Gbit/s Ethernet.
New datacenter Enertel, Aalsmeer connected
June 19, 2006
Again, NL-ix has expanded it's infrastructure with a new
datacenter, the 14th where
NL-ix has presence: the Enertel datacenter in Aalsmeer.
All NL-ix services are available on this site from now on.
Renumbering and expansion of NL-ix peering VLAN finished
The rebumbering of the IP subnet voor the NL-ix IPv4 peering VLAN
has finished. The subnet needed to be renumbered from a block of 128
to a block of 1.024 IP's because the amount of members was coming
very close to the maximum. Now NL-ix can grow 8 times as big before
any new renumbering might be required. NL-ix expects this space to
last for at least 5 years, and probably longer.
March 27, 2006
NL-ix crosses 10 Gigabit/s traffic
Within less then 1 year the total traffic on the NL-ix infrastructure
has grown from 5 to 10 Gigabit per second, based on a 95% average.
October 6, 2005
Multiple backbone links upgraded to 10 Gigabit/s
NL-ix has upgraded multiple of it's backbone links between diverse
datcenters and it's core switch to 10 Gigabit/s, including Nikhef,
SARA, Telecity1, Telecity2 and Redbus. Such high capacity bacbone links
make room for further growth of NL-ix and it's customers.
July 6, 2005
Storm control protects NL-ix backbone and customers
The implementation of storm control on all NL-ix backbone and
customers ports is now completed. Storm control guards the
infrastructure from excessive amounts of broadcast, multicast and
unknown unicast traffic. In large amounts such traffic, then called
a storm, can negatively impact the performance of connected customer
routers, and eat up substantial backbone bandwidth. Multicast traffic
on the NL-ix Live! VLAN is not subject to storm control limitations,
as all traffic on that VLAN, e.g. audio and video streams, is intended
to be multicast.
May 20, 2005
NL-ix now also at the KPN CyberCenter
February 14, 2005
NL-ix has expanded it's infrastructure to the CyberCenter of KPN
in Schiphol Rijk. This is the 13th
datacenter where NL-ix provides
peering and VLAN services. This expansion will enable ISP's hosted
in the CyberCenter to save substantially on their Dutch national
traffic (via peering) and get access to a wealth of carriers already
providing transit and other services on the NL-ix infrastructure.
NL-ix crosses 5 Gigabit/s traffic
On the NL-ix Internet Exchange now more then 5 gigabit/s of traffic
is exchanged beteen its connectees on average (95% model). This traffic
volume indicates the importance of NL-ix for it's members: compared with
transit participants monthly save over 125.000 Euro on traffic costs and
at the same time dramatically improve their Internet performance. This
traffic volume also put's NL-ix Internationally on the map, and further
strenghtens the major position of The Netherlands as central traffic hub
in the global Internet. Total NL-ix traffic volume has doubled every 6
months for 3 years now, and NL-ix expect this explosive growth to continue
for at least two more years.
November 5, 2004
NL-ix hosts Massive Internet 2004
In the Haagse Hogeschool
in The Hague, NL-ix hosted the Massive Internet 2004 lecture event with
lectures by RTL, Logica CMG, BGPexpert.com, NOB, Jetstream and Open Peering.
Access to the lectures was limited to invited parties and +/- 60 people
participated.
November 27, 2004
MediaGateway operational
We are happy to announce that NL-ix is now operational and
ready to accept connections at the
Mediagateway
datacenter in Hilversum.
We expect that this datacenter and potential customers
here will further aid to the growth of NL-ix.
NL-ix peering ports and VLANs are now available on the
following carrier neutral sites:
November 25, 2003
Special pricing applies to ports and VLANs in Hilversum.
For more info please contact
info@nl-ix.net.
ISP2003 fair - Everything for the ISP
September 19, 2003
On friday September 19, NL-ix hosts the ISP 2003 fair
in the
Museum voor Communicatie.
On 300 square meters you will find everything an ISP needs.
There are over 16 exposants including datacenters, carriers,
hardware suppliers, software suppliers and branche organisations.
NL-ix distributes: new site in Ede
September 25, 2002
The NL-ix distributes into the country and will offer
NL-ix connections in Ede from October 1, 2002. The NL-ix
switch is colocated in the
Business Internet Trends
(BIT) datacenter in Ede. Connection prices are the
same as those in Amsterdam.
Currently only 100 Mbit/s ports are offered.
The Bitdatacenter site is the 8th NL-ix site after
SARA, Nikhef, Telecity-1, Interxion-AMS1, Interxion-AMS3,
Redbus Interhouse and the TrueServerdatacenter.
NL-ix will be at Megabit 2002
July 16, 2002
We are happy to announce that NL-ix, in cooperation
with Open Peering, will make a presentation on the
subject of Peering and Internet Exchanges on the
Megabit 2002
event in Ede on august 9.
The Megabit is a open air network event helt in Ede,
Gelderland for the first time this year from august
5 through 11 and aims at the more serious computerfreaks.
For more information, have a look at the
website.
Telecity-1 site announced
June 16, 2002
Today NL-ix and
Telecity
announced that the Amsterdam Telecity-1 datacenter
is now operational as official fourth NL-ix site.
The Telecity-1 datacenter is located ath the center
of the Dutch Internet, at the Kruislaan in Amsterdam.
There Telecity provides high-end colocation services
to ISP's, content providers and the business market.
Availability of NL-ix connections will enable those
parties so save substantially on their Internet costs.
Orders for NL-ix connections at Telecity-1 are accepted
as from now, and will be installed within 2 weeks.
Interxion site announced
May 7, 2002
Interxion
and NL-ix today announced they agreed Interxion
will be the third site of NL-ix, in addition to
the existing SARA and Nikhef sites
Interxion offers professional colocation services
with higher security and better infrastructure
(e.g. emergency power). This will enable smaller
hosting providers and media companies to join
NL-ix as part of al total solution in a cost
effective way.
Orders for NL-ix connections at Interxion are accepted
as from now, and will be installed within 2 weeks.
SARA and Nikhef sites operational
April 23, 2002
Today NL-ix announces it's switch equipment
on the
SARA
and
Nikhef
datacenters is operational and ready to receive
customer connections.
SARA en Nikhef historically are the sites where
most Dutch and international ISP's have equipment
colocated and exchange traffic with each other. With
these sites operational NL-ix can offer it's services
to the approximately 100 ISP's that are currently
located at these sites.
New Internet Exchange NL-ix announced
March 1, 2002
Former chairman of the executive board of the
Amsterdam Internet Exchange
(AMS-IX)
Jan Hoogenboom today announced he would launch
a new national Internet Exchange called NL-ix.
Beside providing current AMS-IX participants
an alternative or backup connection, the new
exchange aims to serve the large market of hosting
providers in the Netherlands (+/- 1250 parties).
Due to the pricing level of AMS-IX and the lack of
expertise with small hosting providers, an Internet
exchange connection is currently out of reach for
most of them.
By providing low-cost connections and packaged
solutions NL-ix is convinced it can provide a
simple and affordable Internet Exchange solution
for them which saves them money and boosts their
network performance.
For more information please contact info@nl-ix.net or contact us at +31 (0)70 365 36 88.