Attendees:
Randy Epstein – Treasurer and Secretary
Michael Costello – Chair
Michael Still – Vice Chair
Tyler Coates
Savvas Bout
Not in attendance:
Graham Paul Wooden
Meeting commenced at 3:02pm Eastern.
Michael Costello moved to accept the minutes from the December meeting. Randy seconded, and the motion passed.
The Board discussed the AGM, Peering Forum and the NANOG meeting. The AGM was attended by ~20 people and they were pretty engaged during the meeting. Additionally, one party mentioned an extension to Montgomery, AL. Randy mentioned that this has been discussed in the past and determined to be quite costly and difficult to scale. Randy added that if someone with plenty of 400G wave capacity would like to donate, it might be considered.
Randy provided an update on the server install and OpenGear upgrade at CoreSite in Atlanta that Michael Still completed. Michael Still also installed a new Arista switch at QTS to expand our 400G capacity at that site as we’re out of 400G ports there. Randy will work with QTS on migrating the members during a scheduled maintenance window and then Michael Still can pick up the old switch to install it at Digital Realty, where we have run out of 100G ports.
Randy also added that he went to Miami and installed a number of additional 100G optics and patched them to the MMR panel and then went to DataBank where he installed a new Arista switch to be migrated to during a maintenance window as well as a Dell we recently purchased. The old Arista switch will be moved to Colohouse as we are out of 100G capacity there and would like to add 400G capacity as well.
Michael Costello mentioned that he will work on the servers soon to prep them for the ProxMox install.
Randy provided a finance update. He provided a year-to-date Statement of Activity and went over the numbers with the Board. He also updated the Board on the completion of the FL-IX fictitious name filing in Florida.
Michael Costello brought up the social media initiatives we’re in the process of completing, updating our presence online. Randy and Greg Hankins have been actively working on this, as well as Greg’s CIX presentations at various upcoming events like Apricot and GPF.
Michael Costello mentioned that he won’t be able to make the April 1st meeting and asked Randy to change it to April 8th after the call.
Michael Costello moved to adjourn, Michael Still seconded. Meeting adjourned at 3:34pm Eastern.