Progress Report

• Location selected: Wolfpaw
  Located along the LRT line in downtown in Scotia Place, this datacenter is in a very fiber rich environment.
  Wolfpaw is neutral and not associated with any Alberta-based carrier.
• YEGIX Internet Exchange Community Ltd. is an Alberta Not-for-Profit.
  Please call us either YEGIX or YEGIX Edmonton Internet Exchange.
• Memorandum of Understanding has been signed between Wolfpaw and YEGIX.
  Our agreement creates a safe framework so a neutral IX can operate in a neutral datacenter.
• The Exchange Participation Rules are now available.
• We are in the process of requesting an exchange AS, and requesting the allocation of a Critical Infrastructure IPv4/IPv6 prefix.
• We installed our switch, route servers, and oob management equipment at Wolfpaw on January 30th. . Our switch, quarantine route servers, route servers are now accessible to our volunteers via our remote oob management. It will be a bit yet before we finish configuring and are ready to accept peers. - In particular we need the CI space assigned by ARIN.
• We have obtained CI space from ARIN, paid for by Bob Beck. We are ASN 62502
• We have obtained switch firmware updates, and are registered with peeringdb We are awaiting cross connects for our first peers and are ready to accept requests to peer to peering@yegix.ca
• Cross connects are setup and our first peers are online. We are ready to accept requests to peer via peering@yegix.ca
• AS112 DNS sink is online
• Initial peers now active include AXIA Connect, Cybera, Edmonton Public Library, Hurricane Electric, and University of Alberta.