Upcoming Meetings and Events
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.
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.
The OhioIX did not meet in May. The next scheduled meeting is June 9, 2022 at 9:00 am at Cologix.
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
Marketing
Tech Committee / CTO Report
Waddell – circuit ordered
Old / New Business
Next meeting – June 9 2022 at 9:00 am at Cologix. We will also provide a dial-in
Meeting adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Nancy Tiemeier
March 11, 2022 Ohio IX Meeting
Attendees: Nancy Tiemeier, Luke Skidmore, Kim Gerhart, Doug Payauys, Rob Shema, Brian Riley, Brent Beatty, Matt Moran, Jason Gintert and Phil Maag
Roll call and Approval of Agenda – Completed
Secretary Report – Minutes Approved
Governance – N/A
Associate & Senior Member Applications –
Associate Membership – N/A
Senior Membership – Path Network, Inc. They do DDoS mitigation services. Jason talked about the company. They want a 100G connection and will pay optics and the higher membership fee. It was voted on and passed.
Content Committee
Marketing
Tech Committee / CTO Report
Old / New Business
Next meeting – April 8 2022 at 9:00 am at Aunalytics. 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 –
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
Tech Committee / CTO Report
Next meeting – March 11 2022 at 9:00 am at IFN. We will also provide a dial-in
Meeting adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Nancy Tiemeier
January 7, 2022 Ohio IX Meeting
Attendees: Nancy Tiemeier, Luke Skidmore, Kim Gerhart, Doug Payauys, Rob Shema, Brian Riley, Brent Beatty, Matt Moran, Chris Cameron, Todd Jackson, and Jason Gintert
Roll call and Approval of Agenda – Completed
Secretary Report – Minutes Approved
Governance – n/a
Associate & Senior Member Applications –
Associate Membership – N/A
Senior Membership – GeoStar Communications and FirstComm LLC – were discussed, voted and approved
Content Sourcing –
Marketing Committee –
Tech Committee / CTO Report
Old / New Business
Next meeting – February 4, 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 –
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 20th. 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
Old / New Business
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
November 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, Scott Verbus
Roll call and Approval of Agenda – Completed
Secretary Report – Minutes Approved
Governance – The first round of applications to build in Ohio are submitted for $250 million through Broadband Ohio. About $100 million in the capital fund has already been applied. This may be a marketing opportunity and funding opportunity for the IX. This could help to fund remote switches or transport.
Associate & Senior Member Applications –
Associate Membership – N/A
Senior Membership – N/A
Content Sourcing –
Marketing Committee –Nothing new t this point. Scheduling new times for the committee to meet. Jason has posted some the minutes and other items to the website. We discussed the press release on the Arista gear and gave the go ahead to pay for the press release.
Tech Committee / CTO Report
Old / New Business
Next meeting – December 10, 2021 at 11:00 am.
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.
October 15, 2021 Ohio IX Meeting
Attendees: Nancy Tiemeier, Luke Skidmore, Doug Payauys, Jason Gintert, Rob Shema, Kim Gerhart, Brian Riley, Brent Beatty, Matt Moran
Roll call and Approval of Agenda – Completed
Secretary Report – Minutes Approved
Governance – Funding is coming out and the states are determining how to spend it. There are aspects tied to broadband in the funding.
Associate & Senior Member Applications –
Associate Membership – N/A
Senior Membership – DSW – Discussed and approved
Content Sourcing – Matt was key to getting NetFlix. We will have a server directly and in our name. OCLC has shown interest. We discussed having Matt lead up the Content Souring committee going forward, he has been a huge help to this committee and welcome his help. We moved to have Matt take the lead on this committee and it was approved.
Marketing Committee – No new updates
Tech Committee / CTO Report
Old / New Business
Next meeting – November 12th 9:00 am.
Meeting adjourned.
Respectfully submitted,
Nancy Tiemeier