2018
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On Mar 30, we announce that YYCIX has a looking glass
where routes we carry can be inspected. Routes which fail
IRR/RPKI/OriginAS or other validation can be identified because
they are tagged with specific communities indicating the problem.
Such routes are not re-announced to peers. Keep in mind a few of our
peers do not participate in the route servers and instead depend on
bilateral BGP sessions.
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On Mar 16, Cloudflare
traffic started flowing. Cloudflare also brings a DNS F-Root
(f.root-servers.net) to YYCIX. Establishing a bilateral with
Cloudflare is strongly recommended, please contact their
peering group.
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On Mar 11, major disruptive switch reconfiguration occurred.
After this change, YYCIX operators can perform
BCP 214 BGP session culling
during maintainance operations to steer traffic away from the IX switches
and minimize traffic loss and disruption.
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On Mar 9, a redundant/diverse link was installed between City Hall
and Viawest using City of Calgary dark fiber and optics donated by
Sean McKenzie.
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On Mar 9, Columbia Basin Broadband
(AS63052) increased their
circuit from 1G to 10G.
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On Mar 6, Cloudflare
(AS13335) joined YYCIX as a peer.
They invite peers to contact them and establish a bilateral.
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On Feb 28, the
minutes of the Nov 20, 2017 AGM were released. These remain draft,
until approved at the next AGM.
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On Jan 23, we received a Nexus 93180 donation from PCH to replace
the old switch at Viawest.
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On Jan 17, Teksavvy
(AS5645) joined YYCIX as a peer.
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On Jan 17, Snijders IT
(AS15562) joined YYCIX as a peer.
Snijders IT joined to provide anycasted services to facilitate performant
access to open source projects. Snijders IT peers exclusively with the
route servers.
2017
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The 2017 AGM is scheduled for 5:30pm - 7:30pm, Nov 20 at
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ATB Entrepreneur Centre
1110 17th Ave SW
Voting members are asked to mail the board to declare their participation.
We appreciate knowing who represents each member ahead of time.
Please send nominations to the board, or do so on the floor.
The room holds 35 -- subject to those limits, observers are welcome.
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On Nov 14, Teksavvy made public
they are building a new POP in Calgary currently and anticipate being
connected to YYCIX very early next year.
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On Nov 1, the route-servers started considering RPKI ROA records
also valid for filter generation purposes. They have the same
effect as IRR route objects.
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On Oct 25, WiBand
(AS15102) increased their
circuit from 1G to 10G.
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On Oct 24, the route-servers started applying fairly strict filters
based upon various resources including IRRdb and PeeringDB. All
peers using the route-servers are encouraged to ensure that their
IRR and PeeringDB records are up to date.
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On Oct 13, Xplornet
(AS40473) increased their
circuit from 1G to 10G.
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On Oct 4, the link between City Hall and Datahive was upgraded
from 4x10G to 2x40G --> 80G. Thank you for generous donations
of 4 optics by Stephen Fulton, AXIA Connect, and Theo de Raadt.
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On Sep 28, the switch at City Hall was upgraded. 25G, 40G, and
100G service are now available. One way to connect is with
City dark fiber.
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On Sep 20, Accelerated Connections
(AS21570) increased their
circuit from 1G to 10G.
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On Sep 5, AXIA Connect
(AS54182) increased their
circuit from 1G to 10G.
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On July 6, the
minutes of the July 6, 2017 board meeting were released.
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On May 25, Columbia Basin Broadband
(AS63052) joined YYCIX as a peer.
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On May 16, Verisign RIRS
(AS26415) joined YYCIX as a peer.
The RIRS
server is a regional DNS J-root (j.root-servers.net) and authoritative server for .COM and .NET (b.gtld-servers.net).
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On May 4, RIPE NCC K-root
(AS25152)
joined YYCIX as a peer. The K-root is one of the 13 Internet root domain
servers, and joins the D-root and E-root provided by our peer PCH.
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On April 11, iTel
(AS16696) joined YYCIX as a peer.
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On April 7, RF Now
(AS46920) joined YYCIX as a peer.
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On April 7, WiBand
(AS15102) joined YYCIX as a peer.
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On March 23, the
minutes of the March 23, 2017 board meeting were released.
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On March 20, two newer switches were donated by PCH. After a few
days work service between DataHive and City Hall has been upgraded
to 2 x 10Gb. 100Mb copper service is no longer available at DataHive.
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On March 3, a special meeting of the members was called, date not yet set.
Jim Clarke has resigned from the board. Subsequently, Robin Harder and
Colin Bodor resigned as well.
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On March 2, the second route server (206.126.225.253, 2001:504:2f::5:3339:253)
was moved from DH to Q9. The route servers are now at different ends of
the switching fabric, which provides greater redundancy. Peers who use the
route servers are encouraged to connect to both for stability.
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On Feb 28, Cybera
(AS15296) increased their
circuit from 10G to 20G. Our first 20G peer!
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On Feb 27, the network time server at ntp.yycix.ca was
brought back into service.
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On Feb 19, Google
(AS15169) joined YYCIX as a peer.
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On Feb 5, Hybrid Wireless
(AS32738)
reconnected to YYCIX after a 3 year hiatus.
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As mentioned in the 2016 AGM minutes, Google is connecting, and on Feb 4
we have link!
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On Jan 9, the
minutes of the Nov 1, 2016 AGM were released. These remain draft,
until approved at the next AGM.
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On Jan 9, the
minutes of the May 14, 2016 board meeting were released.
2016
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On Nov 8, we created a page listing past
contributors with a PayPal link.
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The 2016 AGM is scheduled for 6:00pm - 9:00pm, Nov 1 at
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Herald Room
The Hyatt Hotel
700 Centre Street S.E.
Voting members are asked to mail the board to declare
their participation.
Please send nominations to the board, or do so on the floor.
The room holds 50 -- subject to those limits, observers are welcome.
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On Oct 28, ERA
(AS30648) joined YYCIX as a peer.
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On Oct 26, Arrow Group Inc
(AS395559) joined YYCIX as a peer.
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On Oct 12, SEBO Data
(AS395097) joined YYCIX as a peer.
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On Sep 27, Q9
(AS27272) joined YYCIX as a peer.
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On Sep 22, additional YYCIX switches were brought up at
Q9 and
Shaw Data Center & Cloud Solutions (ViaWest).
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On June 16, AKAMAI
(AS20940) joined YYCIX as a peer.
2015
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On Nov 13, CANARIE
(AS6509) joined YYCIX as a peer.
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The 2015 AGM is scheduled for 5:00pm - 8:00pm, Oct 29 at
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Hotel Arts
119 12 Ave SW, Calgary.
Voting members are asked to mail the board to declare
their participation, or to request multimedia access.
Please send nominations to the board, or do so on the floor.
The room holds 50 -- subject to those limits, observers are welcome.
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On Oct 28, YYCIX placed a second switch at the City of Calgary.
Refer to Locations for more details.
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On Oct 27, an Akamai cache came online at Cybera. This cache is
being made available to peers on YYCIX. A few days later, the
Cybera connection was upgraded to 10G to provide headroom..
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On Jan 8 AXIA Connect
(AS54182) joined YYCIX as a peer.
2014
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The
minutes of the Dec 10, 2014 board meeting have been released.
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The
minutes of the Oct 29, 2014 AGM have been released. These remain draft, until approved at the next AGM.
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The
minutes of the Oct 29, 2014 board meeting have been released.
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On Oct 29, Cybera
(AS15296) joined YYCIX as a peer.
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On Oct 29, Catch Engineering
(AS62993) joined YYCIX as a peer.
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The 2014 AGM is scheduled for 6:00pm, Oct 29 at
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Room #208 on the Second Floor
The Kahanoff Centre
105 12th Avenue SE
Suite 200
Calgary, AB T2G 1A1.
Voting members are asked to mail the board to declare
their participation, or to request multimedia access.
Please send nominations to the board, or do so on the floor.
The room holds 50 -- subject to those limits, observers are welcome.
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On Oct 10, Cybera declared
their intent to peer in the near future.
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On Jun 9, RBBS Telecom
(AS53349) joined YYCIX as a peer.
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Monthly and yearly graphs have been added to the
traffic graphing page. The longer
term graphs demonstrate a steady growth in volume of
low-latency local traffic over the exchange.
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In response to a number of concerns expressed by new peers,
on May 24 the board unanimously chose to release the offical
Memorandum of Understanding (PDF)
signed with Datahive in 2012. This details how the first peering
cross-connect is always free, as long as it starts inside the
datacenter, even from a pure telecom panel. It also constrains
YYCIX from running vlans, leaving such services for Datahive's
business.
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On May 9, Accelerated Connections
(AS21570) joined YYCIX as a peer.
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The
minutes of the Apr 14, 2014 board meeting have been released.
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On Apr 7, O-NET (Olds Fibre Ltd.)
(AS54841) joined YYCIX as a peer.
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On Feb 10, CIRA (Canadian Internet Registration Authority)
(AS55195) joined YYCIX as a peer.
CIRA is responsible for managing Canada's .CA domain name registry, and represents the .CA registry internationally.
2013
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The
minutes of the Nov 20, 2013 board meeting have been released.
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The
minutes of the Oct 25, 2013 AGM have been released. These
remain draft, until approved at the next AGM.
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The
minutes of the Oct 25, 2013 board meeting have been released.
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On Oct 24, PCH (Packet Clearing House)
(AS42 and
AS3856)
joined YYCIX as a peer. PCH offers up Anycast DNS services
to the participants of the exchange, at sub-millisecond latency!
PCH also engages in research initiatives to improve global
network development.
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The
minutes of the Oct 24, 2013 board meeting have been released.
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On Oct 24, City of Calgary
(AS26025)
joined YYCIX as a peer.
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The time has come for the Annual General Meeting of YYCIX, the
membership will vote for a
new board of directors.
Due to anticipated demand, the meeting has been moved to
The Hotel Arts: 119, 12th Avenue SW in the Studio Room
at 6:00PM, October 25th.
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The
minutes of the Oct 11, 2013 board meeting have been released.
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Director Bob Kitella visited
Nanog 59
in Phoenix to meet other network and internet exchange operators.
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On Oct 9, Hybrid Wireless
(AS32738)
joined YYCIX as a peer.
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Recently there are reports of individuals trying to discredit the
YYCIX effort by attacking the character of the individuals involved,
in particular pointing at a fake twitter account setup in the name
of our network manager, or alleging threats of violence by others.
Those stories are not true. Consider the agenda of those giving
you such information. Please contact us if you have any further
questions about those claims.
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On Oct 3rd, we started publishing aggregate traffic graphs.
The weekly graph is found on the main page, as well as a
larger collection elsewhere. They are
updated every 10 minutes.
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On Sep 26th, Platinum Communications
(AS40473)
joined YYCIX as a peer.
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On Sep 12th, NETAGO
(AS54359)
joined YYCIX as a peer.
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Packet Clearing House have sent us
a 10G switch and some other goodies. More on that later, or make
a guess from reading the peers page...
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The
minutes of the Aug 29, 2013 board meeting have been released.
New bylaws (PDF) have been adopted,
and the AGM is scheduled for 6:00pm, Oct 25 at the
Catch Engineering Boardroom, #1100 940 6 Avenue SW, Calgary.
The meeting was moved to The Hotel Arts; see above.
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The
minutes of the Aug 21, 2013 board meeting have been released.
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On Aug 7th, Nucleus
(AS26546)
joined YYCIX as a peer.
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A delegation from ARIN will visit Calgary on
September 12 to present an all-day seminar.
Visit ARIN on the Road
to register for this free educational event.
It looks like all YYCIX board and network admins will be attending.
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An AS112 (RFC1918 DNS Sink)
server has been installed as a peer. This locally answers a subset
of DNS requests so they don't travel to the global DNS servers.
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We have received a donation of a Brocade CER 2048CX switch,
but our tech team have not settled the Brocade vs Cisco question.
If a Nexus 7004 or Catalyst 4900M arrived tomorrow the argument
might stop. For now, we continue running on the smallish Cisco.
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On July 11th, Hurricane Electric
(AS6939)
joined YYCIX as a peer, exposing access to
their network.
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Proper IPv4 and IPv6 prefixes have been allocated from ARIN;
as a result the peers were renumbered onto 206.126.225/24 and
2001:504:2f/48. A second route server was also installed.
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YYCIX now has a GPS-receiver NTP service available as
ntp1.yycix.ca. This provides a low-latency, low-jitter
timing service. Peers should probably continue using
network-based NTP servers, but add this into their pool.
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Theo de Raadt had an opportunity to present a talk titled
an Internet Exchange for Calgary
(html)
(pdf)
at a Calgary Unix Users Group meeting. Directors Bob Beck and Mark
Cordingley answered questions regarding governance and direction. A
number of enthusiastic future peers were in attendance.
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Director Bob Kitella visited
Nanog 58
in New Orleans to meet other network and internet exchange operators.
He announced the existence of YYCIX.
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We have received a donation of two Brocade RX-4 switches, and will
be replacing the (too small) Cisco Catalyst in the near future.
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Hurricane Electric have published their new
network map (PDF).
They will be building new circuits Vancouver-Calgary-Winnipeg-Toronto to
augment their global network. Their Calgary POP will be at Datahive!
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YYCIX and Datahive were visited by a director of
Hurricane Electric as part of the process
of justifying expansion into Calgary. The plan is for links to
Vancouver and Toronto. Based on sufficient transit pre-orders, they
would install a POP in Calgary. For more information contact
either Hurricane Electric or info@yycix.ca.
2012
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YYCIX thanks CUUG (Calgary Unix Users Group)
for the long-term loan of an IPv4 /24 netblock to use as 'peering prefix'.
Allocation of a proper Critical Infrastructure IPv4/IPv6 prefix will
occur when neccessary.
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The Exchange Participation Rules are now available.
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Operating as AS53339.
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Switch is configured and installed at Datahive.
The first route-server is installed and assisting peering.
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Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between Datahive
and YYCIX.
Our agreement creates a safe framework so a neutral IX can operate
in a neutral datacenter.
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YYCIX Internet Exchange Community Ltd is an Alberta
Not-for-Profit (Dec 3, 2012), with initial directors Bob Kitella,
Bob Beck, and Mark Cordingley.
Please call us either YYCIX or Calgary Internet Exchange.
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Location selected: Datahive,
840 7th Avenue SW.
Located along the LRT line in downtown, this datacenter is in a
very fiber rich environment.
Datahive is neutral and not associated with any Alberta-based carrier.