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London, 17 January 2012: TelecityGroup, Europe's industry-leading provider of premium
carrier-neutral data centres, has today announced an agreement with IX Reach and AMS-IX
to enable TelecityGroup customers in the UK to directly connect to the Amsterdam Internet
Exchange, AMS-IX, in the only official AMS-IX enabled sites in the UK.

Atrato IP Networks wordt eerste service provider met een operationele 100 Gigabit Ethernet aansluiting op een publieke internet exchange en markeert daarmee de volgende fase van de groei van het Internet.

AMS-IX CEO Job Witteman: "In 2000 it was a cowboy kind of market, companies tried everything. One initiative failed, the other didn’t and which ever succeeded was then adopted. The professional players of that time saw their market share disappear, and then they would buy what they had lost in market share. The companies that managed to survive are the parties who have found a successful niche. Many of them later were incorporated into larger players. "
The market has also become more professional in its service to the customer. "We see that the bills are paid on time; there are real business procedures. These are very serious companies. That makes the market more responsible than a few years ago. Creativity is perhaps less, but now customers know what they want. The Internet is just there, it is as well established as electricity to your home. That was not the case twenty years ago . Now if there is no Internet connection, there is a valid and real reason to protest."

Monday, 19th of September 2011, Manchester, UK

The Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) and Kenya Internet Exchange Point (KIXP) have finalized a collaboration agreement to help the development and growth of African regional Interconnection. The collaboration, which includes the donation of AMS-IX Gigabit Ethernet Equipment to Kenya, focuses on strengthening the capacity, resilience and stability in the Region and helping the growth of the Internet ecosystem as a whole.

One of the Worlds largest Internet Exchanges - AMS-IX - will support the APIF in addressing some of the key interconnection challenges and opportunities developing in the African Internet Market.

Just a few months ago in late March 2011, Armenia suffered an outage of all 3 wholesale network providers (ArmenTel, FiberNet Communication and GNC-Alfa) due to an alleged search for copper by a 75-year-old woman in the neighboring state of Georgia.

In addition to MORE IP event which includes a variety of topics relating to the expansion of the Internet including IPv6, AMS-IX has joined forces with Internet society, University van Amsterdam, Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Surfnet, NLnet Labs, RIPE NCC and IPv6 taskforce to bring about fun, awareness and celebrate World IPv6 day.
As part of the collaboration, there will be video links, updates and press coverage shared at the events plus a great variety of ideas brought from each participating organization to each of the events targeted audience.
We welcome everyone to take part and learn more about IPv6 world day

AMS-IX annual survey is out for 2010. Please take a few minutes and give us your feedback :2010 AMS-IX survey

The Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) Association members have elected three new Executive board members during their General Assembly held in Amsterdam on Wednesday 24th of November.