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 ~

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.

At the MENOG conference for Middle Eastern Network Operators in Beirut Henk Steenman will speak about How AMS-IX evolved from a small community initiative to one of the worlds largest Internet Exchanges. The presentation is called "Growing an Internet Exchange Point"

Elisa Jasinska, one of the AMS-IX NOC engineers, gave a lecture at the Polytechnic University of Amsterdam (Hogeschool van Amsterdam) about Internet Exchanges and Ethernet engineering.