We are pleased to inform you that we have concluded a partnership with SwissIX, the largest Swiss Internet node. SwissIX provides our Rheintal IX – participants with a free direct connection to SwissIX via the SwissIX Outreach AS (AS58115). This unique option enables all our Rheintal IX participants – without an own membership at SwissIX…
We are pleased to inform you that we will move into another location at the RZO Rechenzentrum Ostschweiz in Gais – St. Gallen (CH) at the beginning of July. At this point, we would like to thank the responsible persons of the data center Ostschweiz as well as our partners for their support and we…
We have recently launched a new service status page for the Rhine Valley IX. From now on, all disruptions, impairments and planned maintenance work will be listed on the page. With this new offer we hope to continuously improve the service quality and attractiveness of our Internet Exchange for our participants. The new status page…
We would like to welcome our newest participant the RIPE NCC (AS25152) to the Rheintal IX! From now on, the RIPE NCC operates its own K-DNS root server (ns1.at-fkt.k.ripe.net) directly in the Rhine Valley IX peering LAN, which drastically reduces the response times of queries to the DNS root zone for our peering participants. The…
Last week, our IXP Manager at Rheintal IX was upgraded to the latest version and our Route Servers have been migrated to bird2. After the test operation in the last weeks, the Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) extension was successfully rolled out and activated on our route servers in the course of the upgrade. Since…
After another three years of almost smooth operation of the Internet Exchange Point in the Rhine Valley, enough innovations have accumulated that it is time to hold another Rhine Valley Internet Exchange Event for and with you. We therefore cordially invite all participants, sponsors and interested parties to our next event: RIX#2Date: 6th of June…
