AMS-IX B.V.

Over the last 9 months AMS-IX has been working to migrate all customers connected to the Nikhef switches to new MLX and Glimmerglass hardware. The migration has been done is several steps starting in Februari to minimize customer impact and was completed by the final step of moving customers two weeks ago. Now after cleaning up over a 1000 old fibers the complete project has finished.

AMS-IX has a job opening for a NOC engineer. Please see https://www.ams-ix.net/working-at-ams-ix/ for relevant details

The Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX), one of the largest Internet and peering exchanges in the world, will be collaborating in the standardization process for Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Route Servers.

AMS-IX presents glowing results over 2009
~ Peering point achieves revenue of 10 million euro for the first time in its history ~

IEEE, the world's leading professional association for the advancement of technology, today announced the ratification of IEEE 802.3ba 40Gb/s and 100Gb/s Ethernet, a new standard governing 40 Gb/s and 100 Gb/s Ethernet operations. An amendment to the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet standard, IEEE 802.3ba, the first standard ever to simultaneously specify two new Ethernet speeds, paves the way for the next generation of high-rate server connectivity and core switching.

Terremark’s European flagship datacenter facility will be called NAP of Amsterdam, which is scheduled to be completed in the fourth quarter of Terremark’s fiscal year 2011. AMS-IX is confident the facility will comply with its datacenter standard and has therefore reached agreement with Terremark to house an access switch to its exchange platform at the facility. More information on: http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=120545&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=1440065&highlight=

AMS-IX renews partner program
Customers can resell AMS-IX ports as part of their own service portfolio

After the initial public release of the "The Internet revealed", a film not only about the working of the internet but more specifically how an Internet Exchange plays an integral role in the Internet, the film producers received some important feedback on how to further improve this version. So taking those suggestions on board, the final version of the film has now been made available! http://www.euro-ix.net/

As of today, December 10 2009, the 7th AMS-IX colocation site Interxion
(AMS5) is ready to take connections to the AMS-IX peering platform.

On the 18th of November AMS-IX will have the next General and Technical meeting. The meeting will be held in the Radisson SAS Amsterdam Airport in Schiphol-Rijk close to the latest new AMS-IX location Interxion AMS5.