January 2019 Ohio IX Meeting

January 11, 2019 Ohio IX Meeting

Attendees:  Doug Payauys, Nancy Tiemeier, Brent Beatty, Luke Skidmore, Kim Gerhart,  Marijan Adam, Greg Dunn, Tim Berelsman, Chris Cameron, Jason Pontious

Roll call and Approval of Agenda – Completed

Secretary Report – Minutes Approved.

Membership – Application received for Amplex Electric submitted application for Senior Membership.  Voted and approved.

Treasurer’s Report

CTO – Racksquared is peering through Bresco (remote switch). There was  a delay in testing for Everstream.  The port had been disabled since they hadn’t been using it.  Marijan will contact them to discuss.

Doug asked about process to turn new members up.  Luke will re-send out process to everyone.  Chris Cameron offered phone numbers for Voicemail to the IX if we wanted them at no charge.

We discussed a ticket system on our end to track turn-ups.  Marijan will look into a Cloud based system.

Update on MegaPort – Brent offered to modify his connection with MegaPort so we could do testing.  He will work with Marijan to start test.

Marketing Committee – A letter will be sent to Adam at Amplex.

Brent suggested Network event for members and their staff to see where the IX is located and to become more familiar.  May do at March meeting at Cologix with lunch or apps after.

Doug suggested doing a Press Release with the new members.  We need someone to put it together and send.  We have used PR Wire in the past.

The Ohio Chamber offered to advertise us and we can advertise them.  Chris also suggested getting with analyst or bloggers.

Governance – No report

Director Agreements and Conflict of Interest – We received the forms back from Chris Cameron.  I will resend to Steve Steele and also will send to Jason for signature.

Old / New Business –  

Remote Switch Operator Addendum – Tim has agreement but hasn’t had time to set up a meeting.  He requested that someone chair this so we can get it done.  Brent offered to chair.  Tim needs to send the latest version to Brent so he can get with the committee and finalize.

Content Sourcing Committee – Brent will chair this to get new members.  Luke, Nancy, Marijan and Adam Kujawski will be on the committee.

Next meeting February 8th – 9:30 at NetGain 8235 Estates Pkwy, Plain City.

Meeting Adjourned.

Respectfully submitted by Nancy Tiemeier

December 2018 Ohio IX Meeting

Attendees:  Doug Payauys, Nancy Tiemeier, Brent Beatty, Luke Skidmore, Kim Gerhart,  Paul Schopis, Marijan Adam, Greg Dunn, Brian Riley, Chris Cameron, and guest attendees Bill Fuller with NPG and Adam Kujawski with Amplex.

Roll call and Approval of Agenda – Completed

Secretary Report – Minutes Approved.

Membership – No new applications

Treasurer’s Report

CTO – The issue with the second route server has been resolved.  We are going to eliminate the old copper switch as this led to some of the issues.  Rack Squared is connected through a remote switch (Brent Beatty) and Involta is going live next week.  Discussed opportunities for private peering through VLAN’s

Marketing Committee – Survey results – Kim sent out results which I am attaching here

First choice Second choice Third choice
Amazon Netflix Google
Netflix Amazon Hulu
Netflix Amazon Facebook
Microsoft Google Cloudflare
Microsoft Amazon Cloudflare
Megaport Netflix Google
Megaport Microsoft Amazon
Amazon Prime-Storefront Traffic (NOT AWS) Fastly Microsoft

Amazon: 5

Netflix: 4

Google: 3

Hulu: 1

Facebook: 1

Microsoft: 4

Cloudflare: 2

Megaport: 2

Fastly: 1

Amazon Storefront: 1

We discussed putting a committee together to put together a plan to try and contact these companies and see if we can get some interest.  The committee is Luke, Brent, Nancy, Marijan and Adam Kujawski.

We still need some IP information for the website, Marijan is going to see if he already has this information.

Governance – No report

Director Agreements and Conflict of Interest – We have most of them back and Nancy will send a reminder for any outstanding forms.

Old / New Business –  

Remote Switch Operator Addendum – We need to schedule a call/meeting with the review committee to try and finalize it.

New Dues for 2019:  Due to few expenses in 2018, we moved to have no new dues for existing members and the same dues for new members.  This was moved and passed.

Next meeting – January 11th – 2:30 at NetGain 8235 Estates Pkwy, Plain City.

Meeting Adjourned.

Respectfully submitted by Nancy Tiemeier