The Committee of the New Zealand Internet Exchange Inc (NZIX) would like to invite all members to attend the 2021 Annual General Meeting. 

Date:   Thursday 17 June, 2021
Place:  The Longroom, 114 Ponsonby Rd, Grey Lynn, Auckland (or via Zoom)
Time:   From 5.30pm

Meeting Papers
Please download the AGM pack for the following documents:
–    the agenda for this meeting
–    the minutes of the last Annual General Meeting 
–    the proposed rule changes
–    a letter from the Chair regarding the proposed rule changes
–    proxy form 

Voting
Detailed voting information will be issued to the registered voting contacts. Voting will take place during the AGM. Members wishing to nominate a proxy can complete the proxy form.

To update your voting information please log into the Member Portal, or contact admin@ix.nz for assistance. 

Registrations

Members who would like to attend in person can register via the Member Portal.  Additional guests can be registered for the AGM by first adding them as a contact within the portal.

Members who would like to attend virtually can register via the Zoom link.

For any assistance registering please email our admin team on admin@ix.nz or phone +64 9888 9221. 

We look forward to seeing you at the 2021 Annual General Meeting.

The Committee of the New Zealand Internet Exchange Inc (NZIX) would like to invite all members to save the date for the 2021 Annual General Meeting to their diaries.

Date: Thursday 17 June 2021
Time: From 5:30pm 
Location: The Longroom, 114 Ponsonby Rd, Grey Lynn, Auckland (or via Zoom) 

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 uncertainty, we are planning to hold this year’s AGM as a hybrid event (in person and online) however, if any part of New Zealand is in, or moves to Alert Level 2 at any point from Thursday June 3 2021, the AGM will be held online via Zoom only. 

Registration details will be sent to all members shortly.  Only members who register to attend via zoom will receive a zoom meeting link. 

Further details of the meeting will be circulated to the voting contact of the Society’s members. 

Please check your voting contacts are up to date by logging into the Member Portal.

On Thursday 13 June the Committee of the New Zealand Internet Exchange Inc (NZIX) held its 2019 Annual General Meeting.

It was great to see so many of our members and industry guests attend the event at the Longroom in Auckland, chaired by committee member Barry Murphy of Devoli Pty Ltd

Society Secretary, Nathan Brookfield of the Internet Association of Australia, commenced the formalities of the AGM with the Secretary’s Report. NXIZ was proud to support the 2019 NZNOG Conference, where our hoodies were a great hit, modelled here by Devoli’s Callum Barr.

The report highlighted membership continuing to steadily grow, with a total of 60 members in March 2019, up from 52 the previous year. Recent updates to by-laws were mentioned. These updates will enable greater clarity regarding financial members in order to stand for committee elections. Changes to the Acceptable Use Policy have also been implemented to reflect NZ law. All documents outlining these changes are now available on the NZIX website.

Treasurer Dave Mill was pleased to announce that as of November 2018 NZIX has repaid its loan to IAA, still making a profit of $64,196 for 2018/19, with $145,862 cash on hand at end year.

Due to the streaming demands being placed on New Zealand through the delivery of the 2019 Rugby World Cup, NZIX have been working to facilitate network upgrades to support our member’s needs. A project that was already in the pipeline, the RWC increased the demand for 40G and 100G in NZ which has driven the need for this project to be pushed forward to facilitate the smooth coverage of the nation’s favourite sport at the event starting in September.

Additional spends for this year include building a 100G ring around our 3 existing pops, funding to cover work by Nathan Ward of SearchLight, Capex expenses and moving into Spark colocation in MDR. If required, a pre-arranged loan from IAA is available.

Tim Rapheal from IX Australia delivered the technical report in which he highlighted that this year there were 69 unique peers, an aggregate peak in excess of 97.9Gbit/s on May 9 2019, an average nightly aggregate of approximately 80Gbit/s, 51,419 IPv4 Routes and 24,759 IPv6 Routes.

Following the official close of the AGM, Nathan Ward of SearchLight delivered a presentation on the new AKL-IX 100G ring. Starting with a retrospective look at the state of how things worked previously, Nathan explained how member demand, in particular the current streaming demand for the RWC in NZ was the driving force behind the earlier than planned upgrade.   

The project includes increasing the core from 40G to 100G, new switches (3 in production and 1 spare), removal of some current switches, completion of the ring, offering of 40G and 100G member ports and a move to a Spark rack in MDR.

The plan for the future is to double up the 100G links, initially between 220Q and MDR, with the possibility to triple the 100G links over time. NZIX plan to retire 1G at MDR/Vocus as peers move to over to 10G, allowing equipment to be used to expand to new sites around the country.

AGM slides are available here. Meeting minutes will be sent to the voting contacts of all NZIX members.

If you would like any additional information, or have any feedback, please do not hesitate to reach out to the team via info@ix.nz.