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AMS-IX Association welcomes new Chairman

23 November 2006

Press Release

AMS-IX announces that chairman Boudewijn Nederkoorn (director of SURFnet) has resigned after the November 2006 General Assembly, as a result of the termination of his term. Boudewijn Nederkoorn had served for six years, the maximum term for a Chairman. Mark van der Laan (Manager Interconnection Procurement, Vodafone), Board member since 2003, succeeds Boudewijn Nederkoorn as Chairman.

The Board of AMS-IX presented a nomination for the vacancy in the board prior to the 21nd AMS-IX General Meeting. Simon Hania (technical director of XS4ALL) has been welcomed to the Board after a voting procedure during the General Meeting.

Press:

Press release (Dutch)

[*] Staatscourant, 30 November, 2006 (Dutch)

[*] Financieele Dagblad, 04 December, 2006 (Dutch)

NOTES TO EDITORS

About AMS-IX

AMS-IX (Amsterdam Internet Exchange) is a neutral and independent not-for-profit Internet exchange providing services since the early 1990's. AMS-IX is one of the largest Internet hubs worldwide, where over 200 Internet related parties come together to exchange Internet traffic amongst them. The AMS-IX platform provides high quality, non-blocking professional peering services for all types of IP traffic whether data or VoIP. AMS-IX hosts the first mobile peering points worldwide, the Global GPRS Roaming Exchange (GRX) and the Mobile Data Exchange (MDX), as well as solutions for broadcasting traffic with the multicast peering service.

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