June 14, 2024 – Ohio IX Board Meeting
Attendees: Doug Payauys, Brent Beatty, Nancy Tiemeier, Rob Shema, Matt Moran, Josh Rowe, Aaron Holtz, Phil Maag, , Adam Kujawski, Petar Smilajkov, Dustin Wright, Greg Dunn and Duanne Powell
Roll call and Approval of Agenda – Completed
Secretary Report – Minutes Approved
Next meeting – July 12th at 9:00 at Cologix
Associate Membership Application – N/A
Senior Membership Applications – L Tech Solutions. They provided managed services. Dustin discussed this company; they will connect in Cleveland. Motion was made to accept L Tech Solutions as a senior member pending payment. This was voted and approved.
Governance Report –
- Rob had invited Amy and Matt from Broadband Ohio to our meeting. Will resend invite and cc Greg. Brent was at NNOG and found out 23 states are giving funding to IX’s. About $5 million. Need to push on our side. Will schedule a side meeting to discuss further.
Government Committee –
- Need help with Connected Nation.
Content Sourcing –
- Matt has been reaching out to differing companies. Consensus 1 – Bringing services to Cologix. Have not gotten any response from Armstrong or Northcoast Wireless. Armstrong is already connected to major CDN’s so may be tough to convince.
Marketing Committee –
- N/A
Technical Committee –
- Progress update on getting access to all things and getting a full handover from Jason (former CTO)
- Mentioned new customer being provisioned (Vision Concept Technology, AS393618)
- Failing drive in one of our hypervisor servers was replaced (and donated) by me/Cloud Propeller
- Mentioned possibility of moving Ohio IX virtual machines onto Cloud Propeller infrastructure
- Peter going through everything to see what needs updating
- Peter wants to go to a 100G port – wanted to see if free port is available (would be the same price as 2 10G ports)
- Need to look at free cross connects on IX account. Jason did an audit.
- Priority to centralize all information
CTO Report –
- 324Gbps peak on Tuesday April 12th, 2024
- Cloudflare cross connect finally gone, reduced monthly bill by $450 effectively halving Cologix bill
- Charter/Spectrum still coming but no ETA
- CacheFly cache still coming, no ETA
- Should we reach out to Netskrt on cache, maybe set deadline to see activity? I’ve been hearing there’s traffic coming, but so far, no traffic has come. Using power and space in our cabinet for seemingly little gain to membership.
- Need to complete updated PNCP for HE
- Goals:
- Upgrade IXP Manager host and version
- Evaluate all hosts for updates
- Deploy remote switches where appropriate
- Deploy AS112 server
- Evaluate RPKI, MANRS & Open IX compliance
- Doug will look at the HE agreement and update so we can send it to them for signature.
- Josh has some servers that he pulled and is willing to donate. He will get with Jason to discuss and see if they will work for the IX.
New/Old Business –
- Look at North East Ohio for next happy hour. Dustin will help to pick a place for end of 3rd Quarter
- Code of Conduct – Rob and Brent will work together to update. Brent got some good ideas at NNOG. They will set up a meeting with the Executive committee..
- Recognized Chris Tovar and Adam Kujawski, for all their work for the IX. They are not board members but have stepped up to help the organization.
- Board approved $100 gift cards for Adam and Chris for all of their hard work.
- Recognized Brent Beatty and Nancy Tiemeier for their help on the Annual Meeting.
Meeting adjourned