minutes of the May 14, 2016 board meeting were released.
On Nov 8, we created a page listing past
contributors with a PayPal link.
The 2016 AGM is scheduled for 6:00pm - 9:00pm, Nov 1 at
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.
On Oct 28, ERA
(AS30648) joined YYCIX as a peer.
On Oct 26, Arrow Group Inc
(AS395559) joined YYCIX as a peer.
On Oct 12, SEBO Data
(AS395097) joined YYCIX as a peer.
On Sep 27, Q9
(AS27272) joined YYCIX as a peer.
On Sep 22, additional YYCIX switches were brought up at
Q9 and
Shaw Data Center & Cloud Solutions (ViaWest).
On June 16, AKAMAI
(AS20940) joined YYCIX as a peer.
On Nov 13, CANARIE
(AS6509) joined YYCIX as a peer.
The 2015 AGM is scheduled for 5:00pm - 8:00pm, Oct 29 at
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.
On Oct 28, YYCIX placed a second switch at the City of Calgary.
Refer to Locations for more details.
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..
On Jan 8 AXIA Connect
(AS54182) joined YYCIX as a peer.
The
minutes of the Dec 10, 2014 board meeting have been released.
The
minutes of the Oct 29, 2014 AGM have been released. These remain draft, until approved at the next AGM.
The
minutes of the Oct 29, 2014 board meeting have been released.
On Oct 29, Cybera
(AS15296) joined YYCIX as a peer.
On Oct 29, Catch Engineering
(AS62993) joined YYCIX as a peer.
The 2014 AGM is scheduled for 6:00pm, Oct 29 at
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.
On Oct 10, Cybera declared
their intent to peer in the near future.
On Jun 9, RBBS Telecom
(AS53349) joined YYCIX as a peer.
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.
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.
On May 9, Accelerated Connections
(AS21570) joined YYCIX as a peer.
The
minutes of the Apr 14, 2014 board meeting have been released.
On Apr 7, O-NET (Olds Fibre Ltd.)
(AS54841) joined YYCIX as a peer.
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.
The
minutes of the Nov 20, 2013 board meeting have been released.
The
minutes of the Oct 25, 2013 AGM have been released. These
remain draft, until approved at the next AGM.
The
minutes of the Oct 25, 2013 board meeting have been released.
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.
The
minutes of the Oct 24, 2013 board meeting have been released.
On Oct 24, City of Calgary
(AS26025)
joined YYCIX as a peer.
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.
The
minutes of the Oct 11, 2013 board meeting have been released.
Director Bob Kitella visited
Nanog 59
in Phoenix to meet other network and internet exchange operators.
On Oct 9, Hybrid Wireless
(AS32738)
joined YYCIX as a peer.
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.
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.
On Sep 26th, Platinum Communications
(AS40473)
joined YYCIX as a peer.
On Sep 12th, NETAGO
(AS54359)
joined YYCIX as a peer.
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...
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.
The
minutes of the Aug 21, 2013 board meeting have been released.
On Aug 7th, Nucleus
(AS26546)
joined YYCIX as a peer.
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.
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.
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.
On July 11th, Hurricane Electric
(AS6939)
joined YYCIX as a peer, exposing access to
their network.
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.
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.
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.
Director Bob Kitella visited
Nanog 58
in New Orleans to meet other network and internet exchange operators.
He announced the existence of YYCIX.
We have received a donation of two Brocade RX-4 switches, and will
be replacing the (too small) Cisco Catalyst in the near future.
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!
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.
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.
The Exchange Participation Rules are now available.
Operating as AS53339.
Switch is configured and installed at Datahive.
The first route-server is installed and assisting peering.
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.
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.
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.