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AMS-IX rounds up year of steady growth and innovation
May 26, 2009
AMS-IX, one of the world's largest Internet exchanges, has announced 30 per cent growth in net revenue in 2008, along with the addition of almost 50 new members.
Interxion Partners with AMS-IX, the World's Largest Single Metro Area Internet Exchange
May 5, 2009
Interxion, a leading European operator of carrier-neutral data centres, and the Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX), the world's largest single metro area Internet exchange, today announced a partnership agreement that will extend the AMS-IX exchange infrastructure into Interxion's recently expanded AMS5 data centre. The agreement will allow Interxion's Amsterdam customers to reduce latency and transit costs by peering directly across the AMS-IX switch, while AMS-IX members will be able to expand their applications infrastructure in the security of Interxion's 4,500m2 facility. AMS-IX has scheduled the installation of the switch at the end of Q2 and will start provisioning new connections in Q3. The agreement was signed in Amsterdam today at RIPE 58, an international internet forum which is sponsored by both Interxion and AMS-IX.
AMS-IX welcomes new members to Executive Board
December 5, 2008
During the 25th General Meeting on November 26, Mark van der Laan, manager interconnection procurement at Vodafone, has handed over his role of chairman of the board to Wilfried Dudink, director sales development at Deutsche Telekom. Mark van der Laan has been a member since 2003 and has headed the board since 2006 until completion of his board term.
Besides appointing Wilfried Dudink as chairman, the board of AMS-IX also welcomes new members Willem Malherbe - head of strategy at Vodafone, Didier Soucheyre - president of the French company Neotelecoms, and Reinart Wellinkvoorde -senior specialist interconnection at Ziggo. Jan Paul Dekker, technical manager at RTL Interactive has served his term and resigned. Simon Hania, member of the board since November 2006 has resigned early due to the abundance of excellent new board candidates and his recent switch from XS4ALL to TomTom, which is not a member of AMS-IX.
During the last General Meeting it was also announced that Christian Kaufmann, senior manager network architecture at Akamai will take on the role of vice-chairman in the coming period. New board member Willem Malherbe will be treasurer of the board for the same period of time especially because of his background as a chartered accountant.
Datacenter situatie bij SARA en NIKHEF
November 13, 2008
Naar aanleiding van de recente stroomstoringen bij zowel de SARA als de NIKHEF datacenter faciliteit heeft het bestuur van de Vereniging AMS-IX haar zorg geuit over de ervaren service performance van deze twee faciliteiten in vergelijking met de andere AMS-IX datacenter faciliteiten en de consequenties daarvan voor het AMS-IX platform en de dienstverlening van haar leden. De vereniging vindt het haar taak om transparantie te bieden aan haar leden omtrent de te verwachten service niveaus op haar datacenters.
Omdat er tot op heden geen aanleiding is geweest om hiervoor een objectieve minimum standaard te stellen heeft het bestuur opdracht gegeven om een onafhankelijke auditor eerst een minimum standaard op te laten stellen en alle AMS-IX datacenters te toetsen of zij aan deze standaarden voldoen. De faciliteiten bij SARA en NIKHEF zullen vanwege de recente storingen als eerste aan deze audit worden onderworpen.
AMS-IX heeft met beide partijen inmiddels goede afspraken gemaakt over de uit te voeren audit en de uitvoering van een eventueel verbeterplan op basis van de bevindingen uit deze audit. Beide partijen hebben inmiddels toegezegd hier alle medewerking aan te verlenen.
Vooruitlopend op de audit resultaten heeft AMS-IX gemeend haar leden te moeten informeren over de situatie bij de beide datacenter faciliteiten en dit advies op haar website gepubliceerd. Helaas heeft deze mededeling tot onbedoelde discussies en conclusies geleid die door alle partijen ten zeerste worden betreurd en daarom middels deze mededeling worden genuanceerd.
SARA en NIKHEF zijn al vele jaren gewaardeerde datacenter partners van AMS-IX en zijn gerenommeerde wetenschapsinstituten en AMS-IX heeft op dit moment geen enkele intentie om deze twee datacenters te verlaten. AMS-IX hecht groot belang aan de jarenlange goede samenwerking met zowel SARA als NIKHEF en de rol die deze partijen hebben gespeeld in de groei van AMS-IX. Dit wordt nogmaals onderstreept door de toegezegde medewerking van beide partijen in de audit en het uitgesproken commitment om aan de genoemde standaard te voldoen.
Datacenter situation at SARA and NIKHEF
November 13, 2008
Due to the recent power incidents at both the SARA and NIKHEF datacenter facilities the Executive Board of the AMS-IX Association has expressed its concern about the service performance of these facilities in comparison with the other datacenter facilities AMS-IX uses and the associated consequences for the AMS-IX platform and the connected members. The Association feels the duty to offer transparency regarding the service levels one can expect at the datacenters that AMS-IX uses.
The definition of a minimum objective standard was never into question before, thus the board has issued instructions to have an independent auditor define this said standard and perform an audit of compliance on all AMS-IX used datacenters. The facilities of SARA and NIKHEF will be the first to be audited due to the recent power-incidents.
In discussions with both parties AMS-IX has made positive mutual agreements about the audit to be performed and the execution of potential improvements based on the findings of the audit. Both have expressed the positive intention to collaborate.
Anticipating the audit results AMS-IX felt the need to inform its members about the situation at both datacenters and published an advice on its website. Unfortunately this statement has resulted in unintended public discussions and conclusions which all parties regret and is therefore put into proper context with this statement.
SARA and NIKHEF have been valued datacenter partners of AMS-IX for many years and are renowned science institutes. At this moment AMS-IX has no intention to leave either datacenter location. AMS-IX values the decades long positive relationship with them and the role they played in the growth of AMS-IX. This is further emphasized by the commitment of both parties to agree to the audit and the intention to conform to the mentioned standard.
Wikimedia Foundation improves performance and reduces costs by peering at AMS-IX
December 12, 2007
Amsterdam/St. Petersburg, December 12, 2007 - The Wikimedia Foundation, the international non-profit organization behind Wikipedia, and the Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) have joined forces for “the good of the Internet.” Both non-profits strive to enable Internet progress and generally improve the user experience. Learn more from the press release, available for download below.
AMS-IX introduces new core switch at its new core site euNetworks Amsterdam
December 12, 2007
AMS-IX introduces a new core switch at its new core site euNetworks Amsterdam. The Foundry NetIron MLX-32 can hold up to 128 10GbE ports - twice the number of its predecessor core switch - and will facilitate expected growth in ports and traffic for quite a while. At the same time, backbone links all across the switch platform have been expanded and upgraded, using advanced DWDM technology for 10GbE, allowing for significant long-term cost savings on fibers in the Amsterdam metro area.
Members of the AMS-IX Association are currently able to order ports at euNetworks. The site's ports will become operational as from the 1st of January, 2008.
Press:
AMS-IX Deploys NetIron MLX-32, 10 December, 2007 (English)
Foundry Networks Press Release, 4 December, 2007 (English)
AMS-IX extends contract with euNetworks, 04 September, 2007 (English)
AMS-IX Decreases GE Port Prices
November 23, 2007
AMS-IX decreases prices for all Gigabit Ethernet ports from Euro 1,000 to Euro 800 per month per 1st of January 2008.
Due to the growth in members and ports on the Exchange and associated income AMS-IX is able to take this action. All AMS-IX pricing is cost-based and by upgrading the platform substantially to sustain the 10GE uptake the cost base for GE has decreased.