Upcoming Meetings and Events

The next Ohio IX Board of Directors meeting is scheduled to occur on Friday, June 16th 9:00 to 10:30 ET at Cologix. Details will be sent to the Board of Directors. Any member who would like to attend should contact us for call in details.

April 2023 Board Meeting

April 7th, 2023, Ohio IX Meeting

Attendees:  Nancy Tiemeier, Doug Payauys, Brent Beatty, Jason Gintert, Matt Moran, Luke Skidmore, Greg Dunn, Chris Cameron, Phil Maag, and Vonda Dilley

Roll call and Approval of Agenda – Completed

Secretary Report – Minutes Approved 

Governance – No updates.  Doug will provide changes to the code of regulations to review.

Next meeting – Friday, May 5th at 9:00 to 10:30 at Cologix 

Associate and Senior Member Applications – Application from Cyrus One.  They have an interest in being a remote switch in Cincinnati.  We have an NDA in place- still talking about what it would look like.  They will need to provide transport and will need to sign the remote switch agreement.  We moved to approve them as a Senior Member pending payment.  It was seconded and approved.

Government – Brent suggested talking to Paul and having a video played on the IX at their meetings.  

Broadband Ohio will conduct in-person listening sessions and live webinars to support updates to the state’s broadband strategy and the development of a comprehensive plan to close the digital divide.

Upcoming meetings: 

  • April 4 – Toledo 
  • April 5 – Nonprofits and Community Organizations Webinar 
  • April 6 – Findlay 
  • April 12 – Ohio Residents Webinar 
  • April 13 – Cleveland 
  • April 20 – Youngstown 
  • More information here: 

Things Happening around the State of Ohio

  1. Ohio TT: Building new towers to close the internet gap – Ohio TT of Zanesville is working on a $5 million broadband project with Coshocton County Commissioners to get service to 15,000 residents.

    2. NTIA awards $25.7M for tribal broadband, altafiber expands in Ohio – A new partnership between altafiber and Warren County, Ohio, will see Cincinnati Bell’s altafiber build a fiber network to roughly 52,000 residences, including 50,000 single-family homes and 2,000 multi-dwelling units. 

    3. AWS brings free fiber-optic training to Ohio – The certificate course is offered by AWS and Ohio’s Office of Workforce Transformation (OWT), local employers, and educational organizations. 

    4. AEP Ohio proposes rural broadband projects in eight southeast Ohio counties – AEP Ohio is proposing rural broadband projects in eight southeast Ohio counties that could have a dual purpose to lease excess capacity to internet service providers. Counties impacted would be Washington, Meigs, Athens, Hocking, Jefferson, Morgan, Perry, and Vincent.

    5. Canton Moving Forward on Major Broadband Fiber Initiative – There’s a plan that could bring high-speed internet to every household in the city. This ordinance builds the “backbone” to that system, running fiber up and down major streets.

Content Committee

  • Had a call with a caching company and Cyrus One
  • Brent applied for Google Cache to go through IX
  • Discussed using open cache server for open content which we could approve or deny (Quilt, IFN, Egio)
  • Want to explore new power options at Cologix.  There was a motion to look at additional power options at Cologix.  This was voted and approved.

Marketing

  • Press Release sent on March 29th.  Chris Tovar wrote the copy.  Want to check to see who picked it up.  The next one will be the end of May.
  • Next Happy Hour around May 18th in Athens.
  • Website – should have something to look at in mid-April.  

Tech Committee 

Technical Committee

  • New Tech Committee Members: Cal Cook from ARISTA & Phillip Schwartz from EVERSTREAM
  • Will be ramping them up and getting them familiar with network
  • Activated King Networks
  • Built out Cato in IXP Manager, sent them LOA/CFA
  • Scheduled upgrade/patch Arista switches & route servers on May 4th
  • All hosts running Ubuntu 18.04 to upgraded throughout April 
  • Moved all spare equipment into storage unit
  • Need to put lock box on storage unit

CTO Report

  • 159Gbps peak on Wednesday 3/15
  • Port Inventory
  • Columbus
  • 40/100G Ports -19 of 64 – 29% Utilization
  • 1/10G Ports – 53 of 96 – 55% Utilization
  • Cleveland
  • 40/100G Ports – 3 of 32 – 9% Utilization
  • 1/10G Ports – 1 of 116 – 1% Utilization
  • Cincinnati
  • 1/10G Ports – 2 of 32 – 6% Utilization
  • Newsletter sent for review
  • Started working with Slantics on new site
  • Signed CyrusOne NDA
  • Spoke with Netskrt on getting a cache
  • Brent got a Google cache and will be exploring moving to us
  • Brent also discovered deploying an Edge.io cache is self service like the Microsoft cache so we are exploring that
  • Are SFN actually stil going to connect?
  • Cato Networks is using HE for transport and HE will be acquiring the cross connect to meet with us

Old / New Business 

  • Geostar – additional 10G port request – There was a motion to grant a 2nd port to Geostar to use.  This was voted and approved.
  • Website Makeover – The are working on the website and are shooting to have something for us to review the week of April 24th.  
  • Cross Connect Pre-Pay option & Contract – This was tabled for a future meeting.
  • Annual Meeting Planning and Date – Looking at July 27th at Top Golf.  Brent checking with them to see if this date is available. 

Meeting adjourned.  

Respectfully submitted,

Nancy Tiemeier

March 2023 Board Meeting

March 3, 2023, Ohio IX Meeting

Attendees:  Nancy Tiemeier, Doug Payauys, Brent Beatty, Jason Gintert, Rob Shema, Matt Moran, Aaron Holtz, Luke Skidmore, Greg Dunn, Duane Powell

Roll call and Approval of Agenda – Completed

Secretary Report – Minutes Approved 

Doug announced that Matt Moran changed jobs and is now working for ZScaler as a Network Engineer.  He is looking to stay involved with the IX.

Governance – The Governor’s office applied for over $1Billion of bead money which they may start getting this year.  Also $100 Million for ORBAG programs.  This money may come this year.

There is no ruling on the Middle mile yet.  Duane asked about pole attachments.  It hasn’t been pushed yet, no interest groups.  We discussed trying to get something going.

Next meeting – Friday, April 7th at 9:00  to 10:30 at Cologix 

Associate & Senior Member Applications – N/A

Content Committee

  • Momentum Telecom – Matt contacted them.  
  • Worked on some inbound requests
  • Talking to Cyrus 1 in Cincinnati 

Marketing

  • Happy Hour in Cincinnati was successful.  Didn’t have as many people as hoped for but had a good conversation with those that were there.
  • Press Release – Chris Tovar will help us to write the press releases, so we don’t need to pay anyone. Ideas – Discuss growth the IX has had, Highlight members; possibly Bresco and WISPS, Regional traffic from Cincinnati and how we have shifter traffic from Chicago as well as the advantage of Municipalities using the IX.  Will schedule a call to go over in more detail and get written
  • Website is signed and moving forward.  Jason provided technical information so they can get started.
  • Discussed next happy hour to be in Athens area on May 18th.  Possibly at Jackie O’s

Tech Committee 

ICS – invoice is paid but waiting on technical information to turn them up.  Buckeye Telecom has shown some interest and might want to be a remote switch for the Toledo area.

Received 4 more HP servers and putting in storage
-Activated OmniFiber
-Working with King Networks, will be activated soon
-Discovered new method for PCAP on Arista switches. Shared with tech committee
-Need to upgrade Arista switches, current version of software went end of support this month
-Need to upgrade/patch route servers
-All hosts running Ubuntu 18.04 need upgraded, it goes EOS in April
-IXP Manager
-Netmon01
-Netmon02
-NS01
-Signed for new storage unit, will be $56/mo – 5’x10’ controlled unit located on Alta View.  Will document access for technical committee.

CTO Report-163Gbps peak on Monday 2/27

Port Inventory
-Columbus
-40/100G Ports -19 of 64 – 29% Utilization
-1/10G Ports – 53 of 96 – 55% Utilization

 Cleveland
-40/100G Ports – 3 of 32 – 9% Utilization
-1/10G Ports – 1 of 116 – 1% Utilization

Cincinnati
-1/10G Ports – 2 of 32 – 6% Utilization

Newsletter to go out soon will send to board for review
-Started working with Slantics on new site
-Started exploring Open IX OIX-1 certification for us
-Call with CyrusOne rescheduled to next week to explore remote switch in their center.

Old / New Business 

  • CyrusOne/Cincy remote switch request – Setting up a call next week.  We think this is for the location in Lebanon.  Cato is there.  They would need to provide transport.  For remote switches, may want requirements on marketing us.
  • Cross Connect Pre Pay Option and Contract – Brent put together an agreement for members to sign if we are going to allow them to go through us.  They will pay all fees and any increases.  Will also charge a small administrative fee.  We need to show Greg to see if any changes.  Will also put on Google Docs.
  • Website makeover – The contract is signed and Jason will be the initial technical contact.  We only have one revision so need to make sure we are covering everything that is needed when reviewing.  Nancy will be the point person on the website with Slantics and the board.
  • Code of Regulations – Changes need to get out to membership – need a 2/3 vote.
  • Remote Switch Operator – rework. We are working on changes.  We would own the switch but they would need to provide transport.  
  • Need help with lists to use to send out for happy hours, meetings etc.  Need our members to provide other contacts like Accounting, Executives, Marketing.  We are going to keep these all in IXP Manager.  Would be good if members could go in and update this information.

Meeting adjourned.  

Respectfully submitted,

Nancy Tiemeier

February 2023 Meeting Minutes

February 3, 2023, Ohio IX Meeting

Attendees:  Nancy Tiemeier, Doug Payauys, Brent Beatty, Jason Gintert, Brian Riley, Rob Shema, Josh Rowe, Matt Moran, Aaron Holtz, Martin Hannigan, Luke Skidmore, Vonda Dilley

Roll call and Approval of Agenda – Completed

Secretary Report – Minutes Approved 

Governance – n/a

Next meeting – Friday, March 3rd at 9:00  to 10:30 at Cologix 

Associate & Senior Member Applications – Cato Networks for senior membership.  They were discussed, voted and approved. They need to provide transport back to Cologix, will provide a list of fiber providers.

Government Committee Report – n/a

Content Committee

  • Google – Not adding public peering at Cologix.  Trying to get in deeper discussions.

Marketing

  • Happy Hour in Cincinnati on February 23rd at Brew Works in Hamilton.  Need catering order for food by 2/10.  Aaron is checking to see if we can order other food instead of catering.  Will do a presentation on the IX.  Will bring sweatshirts and t-shirts to give out.
  • Ryan Collings from Buckete Hills Regional Council sent introductions to us with several members.  Jason will also attend their next board meeting.  We have interest from their members in joining the IX including Nelsonville Cable.  
  • Ohio Regional Council – having a summit this summer, we may want to participate in it.
  • Discussed advertising in the OTA directory but decided it wouldn’t be beneficial.

Tech Committee / CTO Report

Technical Committee
-Apple cache is live as of January 19th!
-Made changes to replication, will be able to recover more quickly next time- will install at Fairlawn Gig
-Upgraded HE from 20G to 200G
-Akamai is down, no ETR
-Grabbing more hosts to use next thursday, likely putting one in cabinet in Cleveland
-Have 5 remote ARISTA 7280SE switches in stock. Checked, upgraded and ready to go!

CTO
-154Gbps on January 29th
-Avg over 100G at peak

Port Inventory
-Columbus
-40/100G Ports -19 of 64 – 29% Utilization
-1/10G Ports – 53 of 96 – 55% Utilization

 Cleveland
-40/100G Ports – 3 of 32 – 9% Utilization
-1/10G Ports – 1 of 116 – 1% Utilization

Cincinnati
-1/10G Ports – 2 of 32 – 6% Utilization

Getting more equipment on hand which is being kept at people’s houses.  Suggested we look into a public storage location near the data center.  Can get a unit for about $50 a month.  A motion was made to get a storage unit nearby for equipment inventory.  It was discussed and passed.

Old / New Business 

  • ICS – modification to 10G connection – They plan to connect through We Connect and would like it to be a 10G port instead of the 100G port originally requested.  The billing will be adjusted to the 10G pricing.
  • Website makeover – Discussed the website proposal from Slantics.  The original quote was $4400 to update and create the new site.  We had originally budgeted $4000 to redo the website so decided to have the marketing committee work with them to see if can be done for that cost.  A motion was made to approve up to $4,000 to get started and re-do the website.  It was voted and approved.
  • Press Release – Purchased 8 – will work on putting one out every other month.  The marketing committee will discuss this at their next meeting.
  • Code of Regulations – need to get a working document shared on Google Drive so we can get this updated.
  • Remote Switch Operator – We need to rework the operator agreement.  Will put it on Google Drive so we can work on updates together.

Meeting adjourned.  

Respectfully submitted,

Nancy Tiemeier

January 2023 Meeting Minutes

January 6, 2023, Ohio IX Meeting

Attendees:  Nancy Tiemeier, Doug Payauys, Brent Beatty, Jason Gintert, Brian Riley, Rob Shema, Josh Rowe, Matt Moran, Chris Cameron, Phil Maag, Greg Dunn, Marijan Adam, Aaron Holtz, Duane Powell, Tim Berelsman, Martin Hannigan

Roll call and Approval of Agenda – Completed

Secretary Report – Minutes Approved 

Governance – 

  • Broadband Ohio has a lot of money right now, would be a good time to ask.  We still need letters of support.  We need to understand our ask and have a discussion on what we could ask funding for (transport, IRU).  Discussed talking to Peter to see what they would be willing to fund. Possibly hire someone to build and manage.
  • Want to establish a Government Committee – work to better interface with Peter and other Government entities and help with funding opportunities.  Also work with local municipalities. Rob Shema and Mark Crosten will participate on the committee.  A motion was made to make Duane Powell head up this committee.  It was voted and passed.  
  • Suggested meeting with Broadband Access Ohio (Duane and Greg are members)

Next meeting – Friday, February 3rd at 9:00 at City of Hilliard – 3800 Municipal Way, Hilliard.  Changing meetings to an hour and a half.

Deposits:

  1. FCB Deposit- – $1,781.36
  2. Renewal fees from:
    • Metalink
    • ValTech
    • Wan Dynamics
    • Arista
    • CISP
    • GeoStar
    • altafiber

Associate & Senior Member Applications – Information & Communications Services for senior membership.  They were discussed, voted and approved with stipulation that they need to provide transport back to Cologix.

Content Committee

  • Talking to Edge cast.  
  • Will focus on Microsoft and Google this year
  • Focus on carriers / entities in Cleveland and Cincinnati that have shown interest.

Marketing

  • Had an end of year meeting in December with get together after.  Had a nice turn out
  • Ordered 8 press releases in December to be used in 2023.
  • Brent purchased cloth ware that we can give out / sell to members
  • Brian and Brent did a great job presenting at the last Broadband Ohio meeting – Was a lot of interest.  Following up with those and will try to present at another meeting in 2023.  May try to get the list of attendees and try a happy hour to get a chance to talk with them more.

Tech Committee / CTO Report

  • January 2023 Updates
    – 143Gbps on December 25
    – Avg over 100G at peak
    – Port Inventory
    – Columbus
    – 40/100G Ports – 17 of 64 – 27% Utilization
    – 1/10G Ports – 55 of 96 – 57% Utilization – If 100G ports, 20% Utilization
    – Cleveland
    – 40/100G Ports – 3 of 32 – 9% Utilization
    – 1/10G Ports – 1 of 116 – 1% Utilization
    – Cincinnati
    – 1/10G Ports – 2 of 32 – 6% Utilization
    – Major disk failure on vm host #1 on 12/6. Services never went down to members if they are homed to both route servers. We restored critical services like IXPM to host #2 thanks to Veeam backups with Integrated. 
    – Notified of DDoS amplification attacks to Amazon via a couple of members. Able to identify and trace thanks to arista CloudVision.
    – Apple caches arrived 12/20 and Marijan racked. We need power cables which I brought today.
    – The OmniFiber port is active and in quarantine as of 12/31
    – Purchased and received 
    – 5 x Arista switches for remote switches
    – 4 x 100G optics
    – Patch panels

Old / New Business 

  • Code of Regulations – Need a group to work on.  We will need 2/3 of the group to vote to make a change.  Nancy, Brent, Jason and Greg will work on reviewing and recommending updates.
  • Remote Switch rework – Need to make changes to the remote switch and the management of the switches.  We need to make changes to the agreement.  Matt, Jason and Marijan will work on updating the agreement.
  • Press Release – Discussed how to use the purchased press releases.  Would like to do them every other month.  Would like to focus on Southeast Ohio companies, Apple cache (need to get their approval).  Will get with Michelle Gatchell to see cost for her to write them.
  • Website – Need to redo the website.  Want more graphing, a FAQ section for technical questions.  Also need to have our logo redone in format for marketing.  Have a call with potential company after this meeting.
  • Member and Prospect Engagement – Talked to Jeff Waddell for next happy hour in Cincinnati area.  Looking at February 23rd.  Will hold it at Aaron’s bar.  He will send us information on the location.

Meeting adjourned.  

Respectfully submitted,

Nancy Tiemeier

December 2022 Meeting Minutes

December 1, 2022, Ohio IX Meeting

Attendees:  Nancy Tiemeier, Doug Payauys, Brent Beatty, Jason Gintert, Brian Riley, Luke Skidmore, Rob Shema, Josh Rowe, Vonda Dilley, Matt Moran, Lee Rutherford

Roll call and Approval of Agenda – Completed

Secretary Report – Minutes Approved

Governance – FCC mapping is out now, asking residents if they are getting speeds that have been reported.

Associate & Senior Member Applications – Omni Fiber for senior membership.  They were discussed, voted and approved.

Content Committee

  • Breezeline – interested in offloading customer traffic.  Matt is working with them
    • MICE – Brent talked to them – wants to discuss connecting to the IX – have content. Looking at around 19ms between sites.  Brent would support 10G of transport.  Will discuss further with them after 1st of the year
    • Apple cache should be here by end of the month
    • Facebook is up – starting to set up routes
    • Meta – they have a special form that takes peering.db information
    • Discussed sending out email to members on how to connect to Facebook, Cloudflare etc
    • Spectrum has peered with HE in Cleveland

Marketing

  • Broadband Alliance meeting is Dec 13th at State of Ohio Library at 274 E 1st Ave from 1:00 to 3:00.  Have 15 minutes to discuss what the IX is in simple terms and benefits.  Need to submit slides by December 9th.  We will meet next week to finalize slides/presentation.
  • Marty from Deep Edge would join the committee
  • If needed, Brent will meet with Jeff Waddell and prospective members prior to the Happy Hour in Cincinnati
  • Marketing company, Brent provided information, will reach out. 

Tech Committee / CTO Report

  • The committee meets every other Tuesday if anyone wants to join. 
  • Replacing discs and working on maintenance.
  • Jason recognized Matt for helping to monitor the network and traffic spikes and Josh Rowe for helping with the website.  Dustin Wright providing 100G transport and support and Aaron Slotness for his help
  • Discussed moving the website to marketing firm at some point

CTO

Hit 149Gbps on November 16th!

Averaging 80-150G at peak
-Port Inventory
-Columbus
-40/100G Ports – 17 of 64 – 27% Utilization
-1/10G Ports – 55 of 96 – 57% Utilization – If 100G ports, 20% Utilization

Cleveland
-40/100G Ports – 3 of 32 – 9% Utilization
-1/10G Ports – 1 of 116 – 1% Utilization

Cincinnati
-40G – 0 of 2 – 0% Utilization
-1/10G Ports – 2 of 32 – 6% Utilization
-Gear to purchase
-4 x 100G FS.com Optics – $500/ea = $2000
-10 x Western Digital Red 1TB SSDs – $110/ea = $1100
-5 x Arista 7280SE-64 (48 x 10G, 4 x 40G) – $1500/ea = $7500

Facebook is up as of 11/17!

Interest from: CATO and WV-IX

There was a motion – Approve to purchase 5 switches, disc drives, and optics for $10,600 before the end of the year.  This was voted and approved.

10G optics, disc drives, DL360 servers – will allow us to control the equipment for remote switch locations.

Old / New Business

  • Press releases related to growth, members, CDN’s etc.  We discussed buying a bundle (good deals for end of the year).   A motion was made to purchase a package of PR not to exceed the 2022 marketing budget.  It was voted and approved.  We will buy it this year and use next year.
  • Website makeover and updates – the site needs revamped.  Nancy knows a company that could help – will schedule a call for the 1st of the year.  Need to rebuild logo with vector graphics
  • Government Committee – Discussed setting up a new committee to stay on top of new funds and opportunities as well as connecting with municipalities.  A motion was made to set up this new committee,  It was voted and approved.   Will work on getting someone to head the committee.
  • Ohio IX Announce and Ohio IX Discuss mailing lists.  Announce – outgoing only; provides minutes and other outward information.  Discuss – encourages discussion.  They are integrated with IXP Manager. 
  • We need a database with all contacts – merge accounting information to IXP Manager
  • Audit of free cross connects – 10 free cc.   did audit, can remove some and reuse. A motion was made to allow Fairlawn Gig to have a free cc since they are providing transport the IX.  This was voted and approved.  They provide transport at no charge and want to separate their transport traffic and IX traffic.

Next meeting – Friday, January 6th at 9:00 at Cologix

November 2022 Meeting Minutes

November 4 2022 OhioIX Meeting

Attendees:  Nancy Tiemeier, Doug Payauys, Brent Beatty, Jason Gintert, Kim Gerhart, Chris Cameron, Brian Riley, Phil Maag, Luke Skidmore, Greg Dunn, Josh Rowe, Vonda Dilley

Roll call and Approval of Agenda – Completed

Secretary Report – Minutes Approved

Governance No updates

Associate & Senior Member Applications – No new applications

Content Committee

  • Talked to New Lisbon Telephone and OMNI Fiber
    • FaceBook is cabled up and has ordered the cross connect
    • Apple caches are ordered and should be here in November
    • Will check with Twitch again

Marketing

  • Happy Hour in Columbus with Adran – Vonda is going over the list of those who attended.   Had a great turnout
  • Happy Hour in Cleveland – 13 registered, still reaching out to people to attend
  • HH in Cincinnati – pushing out until January due to holidays. 
  • Brent had T-Shirts made up that we can give out.  Took them to the HH before the Regional Telecom conference.
  • Setting up port in Cologix CAM for connectivity to those that want to try the IX.  It is free for a year.
  • A motion was made to appoint Vonda Dilley as Chair of the Marketing Committee.  Was voted and approved.

Tech Committee / CTO Report

  • Peaked at 111 Gbps last night.  The number may drop off when we separate the traffic from Fairlawn Gig since transport is also on there
  • Port capacity- Columbus 100Gbps at 27% utilized and 10Gbps is at 57% utilization.  Cleveland – 100 Gbps at 9% utilization and 10Gbps is at 1% utilization  Cincinnati – 40 Gbps is at 0% utilized and 10Gbps is 5% utilized
  • FirstComm is up and should grow
  • IXP Manager – New version with security features will be upgraded soon
  • Disc that broke has been replaced
  • Equipment – looking to purchase some 7280 SE switches so we have more control over the remote switch locations to go to a more facility-based model.  Allows us to better manage and control the remote switches.  They run around $2000/switch.  Jason is putting the list together.

Old / New Business

  • Remote Switch – Cyxxtera didn’t like our model of having to provide the switch.  Need to look at the agreement about where we own the switch and whether they provide the transport.
  • Broadband Ohio – need to do a better job explaining and why to participate and provide funding.  Need to try and get them together and explain while they still have money.  Still need to get letters, Brian will reach out to OU.  We need a template that we can provide to make doing the letter easier for those willing to help.  Peter has a quarterly meeting; Vonda is going to check and see if we can participate in the upcoming or January meeting. 
  • The Marketing and Tech committee need to work together and look at outside vendors and possibly do videos.

Next meeting will be December 1st for Holiday end of year meeting and get together.  Checking with Horizon’s offices.

October 14 Ohio IX Meeting

Attendees: Nancy Tiemeier, Doug Payauys, Brent Beatty, Jason Gintert, Rob Shema, Kim Gerhart, Chris Cameron, Brian Riley

Roll call and Approval of Agenda – Completed

Secretary Report – Minutes Approved

Governance No updates

Associate & Senior Member Applications – No new applications

Content Committee
• Apple cache – agreement looks straightforward. Need to fill out forms. Only cost would be additional power. Benefits – deliver static apple content, IOS updates, music content and apps. It would not cover streaming at this point. Regarding marketing this new connection – there don’t seem to be any restrictions but will confirm with them. We moved to approve connecting to Apple cache. This was voted and approved.
• Facebook connection will land soon. This will be bilateral peering only. Will be 100G connection.
• Discussed pushing Gaming companies. May also look at service providers

Marketing
• Happy Hours – Dates needed to be pushed out, didn’t get the invite completed in time. New dates – November 10th for Cleveland at Thee Oak Barrel and November 17th for Cincinnati (Municipal Brew Works in Hamilton
• Discussed getting a banner done and some give aways
• Will look at new sources for clothware
• Website updates – Josh is working on FAQ section for the website. If things need to be updated, send to Josh and copy others on the board

Tech Committee / CTO Report
• Traffic averaging 50 to 100 Gbps. Peaked at 100Gbps with Thursday night football
• Port Inventory
Columbus
40/100G Ports – 17 of 64 – 27% Utilization
1/10G Ports – 55 of 96 – 57% Utilization – If 100G ports, 20% Utilization

   Cleveland
   40/100G Ports - 3 of 32 - 9% Utilization
   1/10G Ports - 1 of 116 - 1% Utilization

• First Communications almost done – has been a Zayo circuit issue
• IFN- switched to 100G connection a few weeks ago
• Amazon – 100G ports are completed – will upgrade to them
• Facebook getting 100G connection
• Path – We may recommission that port if no payment is received
• Fairlawn Gig – May need additional 100G port. There is an issue with transport and peering on the same circuit. It was moved to provide a second 100G port and optic to Fairlawn Gig to separate traffic since they are providing transport to the IX. The is was voted on and approved.
• Huntington disconnected their peering. Jason will confirm that they are permanently disconnecting
• Linear 1 – Hoping will reconnect, checking with Matt Moran (had been talking to them)

Old / New Business
• Remote Switch – Cyxtera at Green Meadows in Columbus. A discussion was had with Ben at Cyxterra. Wanted us to do the switch and transport since we can’t provide and SLA. Discussion on us owning the switches. We provided a switch in Cleveland and Cincinnati – it is hard to manage other people’s switches. Easier for us to manage but we would need additional resources for remote hands works and support. There if fiber into Cyxtera through CEC fiber (Horizon now). Could use a CWDM shelf instead of switch since so close. Will continue discussion.
• Broadband Ohio – need letters to support what we are asking for. Brian will check with OU. Will provide a template for what we need completed.
• Jason would like to move to a model that we own and operate the switch. Need to discuss economic feasibility – will need additional discussions. Would need budget to hire someone to help support. Continue to discuss
• Need to establish rate changes with 90 day notice if going to change. We are good with the current rate structure.
• If we need equipment, we should buy it now so we stay below the $50,000 threshold.
• Jason would like to attend the Fiber Broadband Regional Connect meeting. Requested to expense it. – This was approved. Discussed hosting a happy hour the day before the event from 5 to 7:00. Possible location – Barley’s

Next meeting will be November 4th at Cologix at 9:00

Meeting adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Nancy Tiemeier

2022 OhioIX Annual Meeting Minutes

August 19, 2022

The meeting was called to order by Doug Payauys

Recording of the members completed

  • Doug Payauys – Adtran Inc
  • Nancy Tiemeier – Cologix
  • Brent Beatty – Bresco
  • Jason Gintert – WAN Dynamics
  • Randy Plaiser – IFN
  • Jarred Davis – Consolidated Electric
  • Marijan Adam – OneIT
    Luke Skidmore – Aunalytics
  • Preston Meyer – NKTelecom – through proxy
  • Aaron Slotness – Involta
  • Omar Ashkhten – Amplex
  • Dustin Wright – Fairlawn Gig
  • Joshua Rowe – Rowe Internet
  • Duanne Powell – City of Hilliard
  • Matt Moran – Integrated Network Concepts
  • Mike Markwood – GeoStar
  • Randall Webb – IFN
  • Todd Myers – Kenneth G Myers Construction
  • Chris Cameron – Accent Communications
  • Allen Casto – Washington Electric
  • Chris Kane – Arista
  • Todd Jackson – Medina Fiber
  • Marty Hannigan – Deep Edge Realty – through proxy
  • James Stabler – WE Connect
  • Luke Burkhart – IFN
  • Jonathan Wray – Cologix
  • Eli Callis – Bresco
  • Greg Dunn – Ice Miller
  • Brian Gorenflo – WeConnect
  • Glen Zucker – OneIT
  • Sergii Derevianko – MadeIT
  • Dave Froelich – Arista
  • Tim Lonsway – Agile
  • Vonda Dilley – Horizon
  • Seth Jackson – Stetson LLC

Approval of Agenda – complete

Approval of prior meeting minutes – complete

Acknowledgements – Doug acknowledged the work of the board and committees over the past year

Vision for the Ohio IX – To be a premier Internet Exchange for services and content in the United States.

Value – Low latency connectivity and access to Internet content and resources locally.

Brent reviewed the Membership pricing:
Senior membership – $1000 annually
Associate membership – $500 annually
Port options – Additional 1G or 10G port – $500/year
40G or 100G port – $2,500/ year, additional is $1,500/year

New Members for 2021

Senior Members
FirstComm LLC
GeoStar LLC, DBA GeoStar Communications
Smart Way Communications
Designer Brands, Inc
Cincinnati Bell
Subspace Communications LLC
Linear 1 Technologies
Adtran, Inc.
Associate
Arista
(US) NUA

New members thus far for 2022
Southern Fibernet Corp
CISP
MadeIT Inc
Medina Fiber
Waddell Solutions Group
Path Networks, Inc
Deep Edge (Associate)

Peering Benefits – Discussed benefits including lower latency, better throughput, reduced CPU load, offloads more expensive internet pipes and member to member traffic takes a more secure path

Luke Skidmore from Aunalytics discussed how he uses the IX and benefits

Peering Request Etiquette was discussed and the information you should provide

Code of Regulations: Discussion on Proposed Change Discussion

We intend to discuss Code of Regulation changes that better represent and support our membership classes with the Ohio IX board and then propose changes, additions, and deletions for the consideration of the entire membership ahead of the next Ohio IX annual meeting.

Technical Report

Management infrastructure improvements
● Migrated to new Arista network
● New Route Servers with Looking Glass access for members
● Many IXP Manager upgrades and improvements
● Added content caches
● Microsoft
● Netflix
● Packet Clearing House
● Valve/Steam
● New Networks: 19
● New Markets
● Cleveland
● Cincinnati

Ways to get the most out of the Ohio IX
Directly peer with content providers.
● Key peers:
● Amazon
● Akamai
● Cloudflare
● Fastly
● Adjust BGP Local Preference to prefer IX
● Direct Private VLAN between members
● Add Netflix community (40027:40000) to your routes
● Be sure “no bgp enforce-first-as” is configured
● Evaluate traffic patterns cond configuration to see if it
makes sense to traffic engineer more towards the IX.

Board of Directors Election Results
By majority elections using Google Forms Voting for
our 2022 elections:
● Director 1 – Matt Moran
● Director 2 – Jason Gintert
● Director 3 – Brian Riley


We moved to accept and voted to approve

Meeting adjourned
Respectfully Submitted,
Nancy Tiemeier

September 2022 Meeting Minutes

September 16 2022 OhioIX Meeting

Attendees:  Nancy Tiemeier, Luke Skidmore, Doug Payauys, Brent Beatty, Jason Gintert, Rob Shema, Kim Gerhart, Chris Cameron, Brian Riley, Matt Moran, Marijan Adam and Greg Dunn

Associate & Senior Member Applications – King Networks – They are a WISP in Detroit.  They connect to the data center in Troy, OH and want to be a direct switch operator in the future.  Voted and passed

Content Committee

  • Working with Google to determine in peering presence makes sense
    • No update on FaceBook
    • Limelight – will reach out this month
    • Ultimate in Indiana – they are looking for connectivity
    • Cache Fly – Doug provided information

Marketing

  • We need a new chair- will reach out to some members to see if there is an interest
  • Happy Hours – Chris Tovar reached out to some places in Cleveland, probably off of 77 and not downtown.  In Cincinnati, looking at Municipal BrewWorks in Hamilton (Aaron Holts has ownership in this.
  • Possible dates – October 13th in Cleveland and October 19th in Cincinnati
  • Chris C discussed doing a tailgate for OSU game.  Could piggyback off of tailgate that he has
  • Membership drive – combine with happy hours

Tech Committee / CTO Report

  • Traffic averaging 50 to 60 Gbps.  Peaked at 75Gbps with Thursday night football for Thursday night football.
  • Upgraded last route server.  It is all integrated and members can see all routes
  • IFN has upgraded to 100 G port
  • CISP is peering
  • DSW is now connected
  • FirstComm is getting turned up
  • Port capacity – 10G port is about 30% and 100G has 15% utilization

Old / New Business

  • Financial needs – Now that are getting bigger, need automation and someone to handle invoicing etc.  Payments should be ACH.  Will look into possible companies that we could hire to help
  • Broadband Ohio – Had a call with Peter and Patrick.  They are working with Middle Mile funding.  Provided cost for equipment and transport.  Would like to work with the existing Ohio Network.  We need letters of support and need to work quickly to get them.  Letters from people in the community, political aspects, underserved areas (Athens and Apalachia).  We need a template letter to provide to get a quicker response.  Dustin from Fairlawn Gig would like a letter from us and he would provide one to us.
  • Could look to BlueBridge as another Remote Switch Operator
  • We had the following Motion – The Ohio IX will engage Integrated Concept Network Concepts for Veeam backup and licensing that are critical to the operations of the Ohio IX and must support them financially for services rendered.  This was moved, seconded and passed.
  • The next meeting will be Friday, October 14, at Cologix at 9:00