[3564] in North American Network Operators' Group
[fwd] CIX announces relocation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Mon Jul 22 10:10:53 1996
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 1996 10:02:57 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
I may have missed discussion on this earlier, but I see that CIX has
decided to relocate to the Digital exchange.
- paul
[excerpt: 07-19-96 at 08:48 EDT, Business Wire]
>
>HERNDON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE) via Individual Inc. -- The Commercial
>Internet Exchange (CIX), a non-profit trade association representing
>160 Public Data Internet Service Providers, announced today it is
>relocating its router from Santa Clara, California, to a Digital
>Equipment Corporation (Digital) facility in Palo Alto, California.
>Relocating the router, which provides many of CIX members with an IP
>interconnection, is designed to provide the membership with reduced
>operating costs and a higher quality of service at a co-location
>facility with "hands-on" technical support.
>
>CIX's router and related facilities have been replicated at the Digital
>facility, called the Digital Internet Exchange. Testing is currently
>underway, with the cutover scheduled for July 18, 1996. The interconnection
>will continue to be called the CIX NAP. The CIX router, currently located
>at the Wiltel facility, will be maintained as members are transitioned to
>the new facility.
>
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