News 2013

France-IX is excited to be a partner in the AXIS project, initiated by the African Union and handled by the Internet Society (ISOC).

The project has the ambition of establishing an African Internet Exchange System with IXPs in 33 countries...
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These past few months, France-IX has undergone a series of outages which highlighted the limits and weaknesses of the current network design.

France-IX wants to ensure its members that the whole team, with the help of experts from the internet community...
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During the General Assembly 2013, France-IX members partly renewed the board committee (2 seats our of 6)..

Lionel Marie (Schneider Electric) and Mathieu Paonessa (Jaguar Network) were elected to join the board already composed of ...
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Africa may get faster access to online French language content thanks to pan-African broadband service provider Seacom and internet exchange operator France-IX forming a partnership.

In becoming a reseller of France-IX, Seacom says in a statement that its goal is to extend African operators and service providers’ networks to reach international...
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In September 2013 France-IX’s board will evolve. France-IX is an association who owns a private company – France-IX Services - to run day-to-day operations.

France-IX relies on a board to ensure its right guidance to success. The turnover of one third of the board is meant to ensure the neutrality and professionalism...
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France-IX had scheduled a maintenance this morning from 9 to noon UTC+2 on its equipment in Telehouse-2. The maintenance was meant to upgrade a core equipment, insert an additional 4*10G linecard and connect a 30G uplink from Interxion 2. No incidence was expected...

When IX Reach in the UK offered free 100Mb connections into France-IX’s exchange in Paris in February, France-IX expected a small response. But more than 15 companies in two weeks accepted the offer and opened up in the French hub, highlighting the cross-channel demand that is now entering the market....

France-IX has become a sponsor of RIPE NCC Atlas programme and offers 8 internet monitoring probes. Until now Atlas has delivered 2700 active probes worldwide. However Africa remains almost deprived of them. This is why France-IX ...

UK-based Layer 2 carrier IX Reach, which operates its own MPLS network in the North America and Europe, has added over 15 new members to the France-IX internet exchange.IX Reach offered a free 100MB connection to France-IX for a limited time during which more than 15 companies took the...