NL-ix is delighted to invite all members, relations, partners and suppliers to the third edition of our Late Summer Drink at Wednesday September 29. One of the best events to catch up with telecom-colleagues after the holidays.

Please register in advance!

Like last year, we booked Beachclub “Culpepper“ in Scheveningen, Holland. This club has proven to be a very cosy and relaxed environment with a brilliant North Sea view. NL-ix will provide music, entertainment, snacks, drinks and special awards.

The 9th issue of the NL-ix newsletter is available!

The quarterly NL-ix newsletter gives you an insight in recent developments in the NL-ix, its members and the Internet market. It appears at the beginning of each new calendar quarter.

Highlights in this issue are the 250th NL-ix member, the upcoming late summer drink and extensive platform renewal.

Ever wanted to better understand this thing called Internet? Want to know wat an Internet Exchange is? How does "peering" make the Internet faster, better and cheaper?

Well, watch this video developed under supervision of the Euro-IX (the association of European Internet Exchanges):

The Internet Revealed: A film about IXPs

With 240+ members, local presence at 30+ local datacenters throughout the Netherlands and a #5 global position, the NL-ix Internet Exchange has rapidly developed into a major hub for both National and International peering traffic.

NL-ix offers more unique members (not to be found elsewhere) then any other IX in the world (only second to the MSK-IX). A large and unique membership is attractive for both Public and Private peering and a unique neutral marketplace for community specific traffic exchange.

*NL-ix is the #5 IX in the world in terms of #connected, source: PCH, Euro-IX, Wikipedia

AMS-IX and NL-ix have joined forces on nation-wide peering coverage. NL-ix now offers direct access to the AMS-IX Public Peering infrastructure (VLAN) over existing and new NL-ix Public Peering ports in any NL-ix datacenter. The portfolio includes 100 Mbit/s access, which AMS-IX does not offer directly anymore.

Participants will be regular AMS-IX members with full access to the member website, mailing list, meetings, etc. NL-ix however, will be the contractual, technical and financial interface.

In cooperation with Iljitch van Beijnum, author of the O'Reilly book 'BGP4' and the Apress book 'Running IPv6', 4 times a year NL-ix organizes authoritive BGP4 and IPv6 courses in Dutch and English. The next course dates are:

- BGP4 course (Dutch) -> Monday, October 11, 2010 (Registration Form);
- IPv6 course (Dutch) -> Tuesday, October 12, 2010 (Registration Form);

Seats are still available, so register now!

Early 2009 NL-ix introduced its managed Metro Wave portfolio, as the fully transparant alternative for Metro Ethernet and more efficient and fully managed alternative for its Metro Fiber products.

Wavelengths are fully transparant (for dot1.q, MAC's, jumbo frames, etc.), proactively managed and monitored, extremely cost-efficient, delivered at grey short haul interfaces and available between all NL-ix datacenters at speeds from 100 Mbit/s upto 10 Gbit/s.
Please contact us for more info and pricing!

The global pool of IPv4 IP addresses is rapidly getting exhausted. 'X-day' for IANA is currently expected around July 01, 2011. Regional registries (RIR's) like RIPE are expected to run out of unallocated IPv4 space around one year later. The first Local Registries (LIR's) are expected to run out shortly thereafter.

The only durable solution for this exhaustion is migration to IPv6 addresses. To promote and stimulate this migration, in cooperation with Joint Transit, NL-ix offers free of charge 100 Mb IPv6 transit to all members until (at least) June 2010. Please contact us for details!

NL-ix supports members in every way possible to get Routing on their Public Peering port:

1) Eight steps supporting Do-It-Yourself bilateral peering negotiation (free);
2) A Full or Top-25 Managed Peering package (payed);
3) Automatic peering with new participants via the Route Servers (free);
4) MultiLateral Peering package with AMS-IX, NL-ix & GN-IX routes (free);
5) 100% Dutch coverage with NL Routing partial transit (payed);
6) Global Transit, full worldwide routing available from multiple carriers.