The next Ohio IX Board of Directors meeting is scheduled for June 9th, 2022 at 9:00 am. Details will be sent to the Board of Directors. Any member who would like to attend should contact us for call in details.

April 6, 2022 OhioIX Meeting

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

Roll call and Approval of Agenda – Completed

Secretary Report – Minutes Approved 

Governance – Waiting on funding notice in May for NTIA

Associate & Senior Member Applications – 

Associate Membership – Deep Edge Realty – Discussed and voted – approved

Senior Membership –

Medina Fiber – Fiber to the Home – Discussed and voted – approved MadeIT – Private Cloud and MSP – Discussed and voted – approved

Content Committee

• Working on large providers – Meta, Alkami (patched from Cleveland).
• Arelion and Armstrong in Cologix
• AEP
• Riot Games – working on

Marketing

• Happy Hour at McKenzie River on May 4^th.  Can send invites through Hubspot and rsvp through EventBrite.
• Open to more ideas for Happy hours, possibly Hamilton Ohio which is between Dayton and Cincinnati.

Tech Committee / CTO Report

• 40Gbps peak on April 15^th.   Doubled traffic since March.  Should do a press release
• Valve cache – Cincy Bell now 40G connections –
• Steam – new game provided 28Gbps a day of usage
• QFX – switch will redeploy in Cleveland.  We have our own switch at H5 with Fairlawn Gig  They are providing transport.  Should put an MOU agreement in place to protect transport.  Provide information to Greg.
• Need $600 misc gear for switch, from budgeted dollars
• Will move Matt to new network which will be the official switch
• Signed agreement with Veeam for back-ups (offsite).  20 virtual servers
• Tried to bring Microsoft online but need new equipment.  Will purchase
• Everstream re-connected
• GeoStar just connected
• DSW is going dark
• First Comm now a 10G port instead of 1G
• SFN and Path – no response

Waddell – circuit ordered

Old / New Business 

• Broadband Ohio – 2 page Marketing brochure.  Hired Michelle Gatchell to put together and will send to Peter.  Goal is POP access in other counties.
• Discussed past due accounts and Code of Conduct – Have controls in place so can disconnect if needed.  Will check with other IX’s to see what they have in place.  New members must sign when completed.
• Annual Meeting – Top Golf August 18^th from 1:30 to 4:30.  We need to put the presentation together.

Next meeting – June 9 2022 at 9:00 am at Cologix.  We will also provide a dial-in

Meeting adjourned.

Respectfully submitted,

Nancy Tiemeier

February 11, 2022 Ohio IX Meeting

Attendees:  Nancy Tiemeier, Luke Skidmore, Kim Gerhart, Doug Payauys, Rob Shema, Brian Riley, Brent Beatty, Matt Moran, Todd Jackson, Greg Dunn, Jason Gintert and Aaron Holtz

Roll call and Approval of Agenda – Completed

Secretary Report – Minutes Approved 

Governance – 

• Peter Voderberg is happy to meet with us, just need to schedule.  – Looking at next 2 Fridays and discussed who wants to wants to attend.
• NTIA – notice funding coming out in May – 

Associate & Senior Member Applications – 

Associate Membership – N/A

Senior Membership – Waddell Solutions Group and Southern Fibernet Corp – Both were discussed and approved

Old / New Business 

• Detroit IX would like to connect with us.  CFN is doing a joint fiber build in Detroit to Southfield MI.  Aunalytics is also part of the Detroit IX
• Strategic Planning – Doug, Brent, Jason and Nancy met- we discussed an overview of what we discussed.  We want to have a follow up meeting with more people   Brian, Todd and Luke are interested in being part of the next meeting.
• Global Virtual Internet Exchange – Megaport and Cogent which are strong in Ohio.  We could do a private VLAN to other fabrics.  Both charge for data transfer.  Jason talked to Cogent – no port charge; they use the 95^th percentile and charge $.10/Mbps.  We would be listed in their exchange.  Need to more information.  Megaport – free port and fixed price/Mbps
• Networking events – We should be ready in March.  Need to check if inviting members to the Accent event. 
• Todd Jackson is changing roles.  He is going to Lit Communications (Medina Fiber).  They will join the IX and continue on in his role on the board.  They would be a possible remote switch opportunity.

Tech Committee / CTO Report

• Smart Way Communications is up
• New route servers are up and running – They are upgraded and patched
• Mircrosoft cache – had discussions- they don’t provide a server.  We could use a spare if we want to go that route and move if we needed.  Marijan may have one we could use.  It is a lower level server – about 8 TB of space
• Brent signed paperwork for Steam and Valve cache – will be good for gaming and video.  They liked that we have a separate services network for cache.  Having our internet for this is unique to the Ohio IX and may want to promote this
• We should list information on content providers on website and provide information 
• Discussed looking at marketing budget and try to hire someone to help with the website
• Discussed when to shut down ports for those that have not paid or not using us anymore.  We need to put a document together for procedure.  
• The newsletter was great

Next meeting – March 11 2022 at 9:00 am at IFN.  We will also provide a dial-in

Meeting adjourned.

Respectfully submitted,

Nancy Tiemeier

December 10, 2021 Ohio IX Meeting

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

Roll call and Approval of Agenda – Completed

Secretary Report – Minutes Approved 

Governance – The $42 Billion Infrastructure bill is slated to provide funding next year; Greg will keep us updated.  We discussed ways the Ohio IX could use some of that money to expand the IX and remote switch locations including helping to cover the cost of transport as well as routers and switches.  Working to set up a meeting to get in front of them in January.  Greg is helping with that.  

Associate & Senior Member Applications – 

Associate Membership – N/A

Senior Membership – Smart Way Communications – Nancy 

Content Sourcing – 

• Matt is going to reach out to Massilon Cable
• Working to put information together to send out to smaller ISP’s
• QTS is looking to move to New Albany, and they may be interested
• Jason had talked to Deep Edge; they are looking to set up a POP
• First Communications provided a verbal to join the IX in the 1^st Qtr
• Valve is working on approval for cache
• Brent talked to SFN TV
• Telia is looking to come to Columbus
• Some of the members need to regroom their networks to go through the IX so we get the additional traffic, and the companies can save money on transport.  Doug suggested covering cost for a temporary 10G port to help traffic be changed to the IX.  We need to get more information out to the members, suggested adding information to the website.

Marketing Committee –Starting to meet every 3 weeks.  Trying to add additional networking opportunities for members and prospects so they feel more part of the organization.  Going to have happy hours in different areas of the state starting with one in Columbus on January 20^th.  We are looking for a location now.  We are waiting on the approval from Arista for the press release, hoping to send out next week.  We discussed getting a package of press releases so we can continue to send them out.  We have some money that wasn’t spent from the marketing budget last year so suggested to use some of that for the additional press releases.

Tech Committee / CTO Report

• The technical committee put a project list together and will delegate those items
• Have worked on a management report with Bresco to see the ports on his remote switch
• Have done updates to monitoring
• Added MAC filter addresses
• Updated Linux Hosts
• They would like to evaluate Veam, VM Ware and Windows licenses.  Can order off the state term through OARnet is an option but looking at other options as well
• Doing security audit on passwords etc
• Matt is reviewing Veam backups -looking at backup
• Everstream is still down
• The traffic has been between 14 and 16 Gig

Old / New Business 

• Ohio IX/Arista Press Release – shooting for next Tuesday
• Bi-lateral peering guidance / documentation (Matt) – Matt has it done, wanting to know how to distribute.  Talked about putting it on the website and doing webinars.
• Strategic Planning – Doug is going to put a group together to discuss direction for the IX
• 2022 Budget Planning – Please provide information to Kim

Next meeting – January 7, 2022 at 9:00 am.  This will be virtual, we discussed doing an in person meeting at least once a quarter.

Meeting adjourned.

Respectfully submitted,

Nancy Tiemeier

Columbus, OH – October 28th, 2021 – The Ohio Internet Exchange (Ohio IX) has deployed new industry-leading network switch platforms to further enhance the value of the Internet Exchange for current and future Ohio IX participants. The organization chose the ultra high-performance Arista 7060 and 7280R switches because they deliver a rich choice of interface speed and density and best meet the Ohio IX objectives to increase the number of available 10Gbps and 25Gbps ports, augment 100Gbps services, and remain price competitive in the market, all of which serve to increase participation and promote higher traffic levels at the Internet Exchange points operated by Ohio IX.  

“We are thrilled to build our network infrastructure with Arista switch platforms at Ohio IX, which are helping us address increasing demand and add greater value to our membership,” said Jason Gintert, board member and CTO of Ohio IX. “Optimizing the Arista technology will allow us to achieve our core mission of interconnecting networks throughout the state of Ohio while reducing costs and improving performance–benefiting the Ohio Internet community and beyond.”

Deploying the new Arista switches provides the Internet Exchange the capacity to support up to 20Tbps of total throughput in the exchange fabric, nearly 3x the amount of the previous infrastructure, affording the Ohio IX much more room for growth. 

“We’re excited to partner with the Ohio Internet Exchange to bring innovation, scalability, flexibility and performance to their network as their participants’ needs continue to increase,” said Chris Kane, Systems Engineering Lead at Arista Networks. “Ohio IX is a valued client for us, in the company of many other exchanges around the world that rely on Arista’s leading-edge platforms to operate in demanding technology environments where high performance is essential.” 

About Ohio IX

Ohio IX is a not-for-profit corporation that operates an Internet Exchange led by an experienced group of network and business professionals from prominent businesses throughout Ohio. Ohio IX provides internet and network-based businesses to connect confidently to a professional and responsive local Internet exchange. The Ohio IX member community of peers is a strong, dependable, and diverse group of organizations dedicated to improving Ohio’s internet through collaboration and cooperation. For more information, please visit https://ohioix.net or follow Ohio IX on LinkedIn and Twitter.