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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.

The capacity volume take-up of datacenter space in Amsterdam has reached records before the end of the year 2011. What was already a record-breaking business in 2010 will be outdone even in 2011.
This is one of the conclusions of the European Data Centres report of CBRE.

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."

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.

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 preparations for the much anticipated launch of Inter-IPX services (Interconnection of IPX networks) and Service Level Agreement (SLA), AMS-IX Governance and Policy Officer and Inter-IPX Product Manager Bastiaan Goslings will be holding meetings and presentations during the GSMA's World Mobile Congress in Barcelona this 14th to 17th of February.
The Event is one of the most attended and influential conferences surrounding the mobile industry with more then 50,000 expected visitors. Bastiaan Goslings will be joining some of our members, press and partners to elaborate on AMS-IX developments and explain how a global and neutral Internet Exchange can offer its support to the mobile industry.

In response to Wikileaks alleged documents mentioning “U.S. concerns to threats of vital Internet cables landing to the Netherlands”. The Amsterdam Internet Exchange states the following:

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/