2023 Ohio IX Annual Meeting
July 27, 2023 at Top Golf, Columbus, Ohio
The meeting was called to order by Doug Payauys
Recording of the members and guests completed
- Doug Payauys – Adtran Inc
- Brian Pierce – Adtran Inc
- Nancy Tiemeier – Cologix
- Brent Beatty – Bresco
- Chris Tovar – Bresco
- Eli Callis – Bresco
- Rob Shema – altafiber
- Jason Gintert – WAN Dynamics
- Petar Smilajkov – Cloud Propeller
- Brent Ervin – Cloud Propeller
- Marijan Adam – OneIT (+Kim Gerhart through proxy)
Luke Skidmore – Aunalytics - Mark Spring – NKTelco (+Preston Meyer through proxy)
- Jim Ervin – Involta
- Chris Lozano – Involta
- Mark Radabaugh – Amplex through proxy
- Dustin Wright – FairlawnGig
- Joshua Rowe – Rowe Internet
- Duane Powell – City of Hilliard
- Adam Maynard – City of Hilliard
- Jared Davis – Consolidated Cooperative – through proxy
- Mike Markwood – GeoStar
- Aaron Holtz – IFN through proxy
- Todd Myers – Kenneth G Myers Construction through proxy
- Chris Cameron – Accent Communications through proxy
- Allen Casto – Washington Electric through proxy
- Chris Kane – Arista
- Corey King – King Networks
- Phil Maag – MetaLink Technologies through proxy
- Brian Gorenflo – WeConnect
- Greg Dunn – Ice Miller
- Sergii Derevianko – MadeIT
- Ryan Hetrick – Sigma Technologies through proxy
- Mark White – Southern Fibernet
- Adam Gerardi – Valtech Communications through proxy
- Mark Crosten – Village of West Jefferson through proxy
- Jeff Waddell – Waddell Solutions Group
- Scott Verbus – Linear 1 Technologies through proxy
- Brian Riley – Horizon Telcom through proxy
- Shawn Ritchie – FirstComm through proxy
Guests:
- Walt Wollny – Hurricane Electric
- Sam Orth – City of Columbus
- Thomas Drewyor – Radian Group
- Jason Coen – Radian Group
- Kelly Bollinger – Flexential
- Dylan Lape – Centracomm
- Kirby Dearth – City of Dublin
Approval of Agenda – complete
Approval of prior meeting minutes – complete
Presentation on Ohio IX:
- Why Ohio IX was created – Local Peering Point for Large Enterprises, Regional and State=Wide Fiber carriers and Corporate Data Centers. Off loads expensive internet connections and provides a content distribution point
- Benefits of Ohio IX – Reduce latency, reduce cost with better security and network reliability
- Reviewed cost of membership and history of past years and what membership dollars covers
- Acknowledgements – Discussion of all volunteer organization and those members that have been instrumental in the success of the group (Board members and committee members)
- Major IX Accomplishments – Upgraded Arista Switch platform, procured additional switches, added Apple and Microsoft cache and staying on top of software updates
- Growth of the IX – We have grown to 68 members and 9 major content providers. New members in 2022
- altafiber
- CISP
- City of Westerville
- Deep Edge Realty
- DSW
- First Networks
- Geostar
- King Networks
- Linear 1
- Lit Communities
- MadeIT
- Smartway Communications
- Subspace
- Waddell Solutions
- Financial Report
- We began 2022 with a balance of $24,779.48 and ended with $15,804.42
- ● We began the month of December with $23,841.70 and decided to purchase equipment for 2023 before year end
- ● We had $36,784 in Operating Expenses and Equipment Purchases for 2022
- Key Expenses
- Cologix
- Integrated Network Concepts
- Annual Meeting
- Telecom Insurance Group
- Tech purchases
- Traffic Growth – Over 200 Gbps in 2023, up from 50Gbps in 2022. Averaging 100Gbps per day
- Major Content Providers Available to Members
- Amazon
- Meta
- Fastly
- Cloudflare
- Apple
- Valve / Steam
- Akamai
- Netflix
- Microsoft
Peering Etiquette and Peering Manager – Discusses Do’s and Don’t when peering, Using the IXP Manager and went over the tool
Code of Regulations Updates
- Update the “Associate Member” class to provide voting rights consistent with Senior members
- Better clarified a “member in good standing”
- Allow for a Code of Conduct maintained by the Board of Directors
- Allow for, improve and clarify Proxies, Electric Participation (including voting) and election groups. Added removal of director for excessive unexcused absences
- Clarify member participation by more than one individual (board member, plus others serving on committees)
- Strengthened membership rights, changes to not only require 2/3rds vote of all membership to include approval by a majority vote of the Board of Directors.
This was voted on electronically prior to the meeting. Result – Changes were approved by 93.3% approval
Board of Directors Election Results
By majority elections using Google Forms Voting for
our 2023 elections:
- Board Seat 4 – Nancy Tiemeier
- Board Seat 5 – Brent Beatty
- Board Seat 6 – Rob Shema
- Board Seat 7 – Josh Rowe
- Board Seat 1 – Luke Skidmore (two years remaining on term)
Motion was made to accept voting results. This was seconded and passed
Special thanks to the Ohio IX community and the strong interest we see from members to participate on the board, on committees, and just spreading the word about how the IX can support the region.
Meeting adjourned
Respectfully Submitted,
Nancy Tiemeier