History at a Glance
On August 29, 2015, Vancouver Internet Exchange (“VANIX”) was incorporated under the Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act to facilitate peering at the VANIX exchange and to promote related activities. This new Corporation was created to promote Public Peering in Vancouver, BC through a distributed switch fabric that joins and extends the original Peer1 and BCNET peering points.
May 2016
– First AGM with first election for BOD
– Thank you to TorIX for providing $5000 for AGM expenses
– Thank you to CIRA for providing a Juniper EX4550 switch
April 2016
– Online traffic graphs publicly available
February 2016
– First route server in operation
August 2015
– VANIX incorporation completed
July 2015
– Initial BoD formed and Officers identified
– Steering Committee decommissioned and renamed to Technical and Operations Committee
June 2015
– Governance Committee formed to develop By-Laws, funding model, and complete incorporation
January 2015
– Over 5Gbps on VANIX
– OpenDNS donates Route Server and Optics
November, 2014
– VANIX First User Group and Launch Event
May, 2014
– Peer1 donates a fibre optic switch and LR optics
– Skyway West donates collocation space and power in Harbour Centre MMR 6B. Existing connections to PIX in 6B is re-purposed to connect to this switch
– VANIX goes “live” and website www.vanix.ca in operation
– Cologix donates space and power at 1050 West Pender St., and a dark fibre ring to connect to Harbour Centre.
April, 2014
– ARIN allocates IP address space for the Exchange
January, 2014
– First meeting of Steering Committee
– Registration of vanix.ca
August, 2014
– Juniper Networks donates a fibre optic switch and LR optics for the Cologix site, VANIX’s initial core network is completed. Plentyoffish Media donates additional high-speed optics for redundant paths.
June, 2014
– Extension to Cologix site announced
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140603005238/en/Vancouver-Internet-Exchange-Cologixs-1050%C2%A0W.%C2%A0Pender%C2%A0St.-Data-Center#.U49QwPldVyI
– VANIX is announced at NANOG Peering Track
– BCNET donates a fibre optic switch and LR optics, and expands its offering to include bilateral peering, as well as continuing to offer its existing multilateral peering over the new Exchange connection
October, 2013
– A volunteer Steering Committee forms to take the necessary steps to create the Exchange Point
September, 2013
– After inquiries about merging their two exchanges, BCNET and Peer1 hold a Town Hall style meeting to discuss a combined Exchange, which results in a great deal of interest
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