At last year’s AGM, Chris set a challenge for everyone to come up with ideas for investing the Society’s funds into some new initiatives. Some offered ideas straight away, with one particular idea really standing out – an educational ISP. In a nutshell, this project will create an environment where you can be shown a […]
The plans are locked in for the upcoming AGM! You would have seen the save the date sent out earlier in June, inviting you all to register to attend. This year’s AGM will be a hybrid event with attendees having both options of attending in person or virtually via Zoom. Date: Thursday, 28 July 2022Time: […]
After being postponed, the NOG finally took place in May! It was a great couple of days starting with Dan Faulknor’s Bootstraping an ISP and finishing with Liam Farr’s Starlink Hacks – Hardware is Hard Easy. With a good turnout, we managed to catch up with a few members and handed out some of our […]
Recently, CHC-IX has seen more content members deploy, and our traffic levels have shot up to peaks of ~14Gbps. We expect growth to continue with more content providers coming onboard, providing local access to a plethora of content so users can access their favourite content across shorter paths.
Over the past three months, plans to build the new western path through Auckland have continued to be discussed with IAA’s Peering Engineer, Aaron, providing a detailed overview of the draft 1-2 year plan at NZNOG in May. The plan’s end goal is to have a 400G redundant and diverse ring with massively reduced single […]
We’re happy to report that Wellington has been off to a great start and continues to see more peers connecting every month. We are expecting more content providers to come onboard in the next few months, and we expect to see the traffic notably increase again! We’re always keen to see more content providers onboard […]
Join us for our 2022 Annual General Meeting in Auckland in July! Date: Thursday, 28 July 2022Time: 5:30pm, with formalities starting at 6:00pm NZSTLocation: The Longroom, 114 Ponsonby Rd, Grey Lynn, Auckland (or via Zoom) Find out what the Society has been up to over the past twelve months and what the plans are for […]
With the closing of another financial year, we are reminded that our Annual General Meeting is drawing closer. We are yet to announce the date officially; however, we are looking at hosting a hybrid event again this year at a venue in Auckland and are planning for it to take place around mid to late […]
I am excited to report the continual growth of our newer exchanges – WLG-IX and CHC-IX – both hitting new record speeds in February. It’s great to see these regional exchanges continue to grow, and as they do so, they will have the potential to attract more local cloud infrastructure. NZIX continues to work with […]
We’re keen to get your feedback about our Chorus EdgeConnect peering service. Launched back in November 2020, we created this service in collaboration with Chorus, to enable Chorus customers to communicate directly with other NZIX members on the same exchange despite a physical connection to NZIX exchange switches. The survey contains three questions and will […]