WHO WE ARE
Timeline
1999 – CATNIX is born
The creation agreement was signed in April 7, 1999 with the support of the former Information Society Commission.
12 founding members: BT Telecomunicacions; Catalana de Telecomunicacions SOX (Al-Pi); Datagrama; Fundació Catalana per a la Recerca; Infase Comunicaciones; Institut Català de Tecnologia; Internet Network Services; Menta; Retevisión; Sarenet, the Generalitat de Catalunya and the former CESCA.
10 participants, more than 3 TB of traffic
New Multicast service.
Founding member of the EURO-IX
Association
New Out-of-band access router
1st Euro-IX Forum, in Barcelona.
15 members, 30 TB of traffic.
CATNIX renews its equipment
New switches at 1 Gbps.
New IXP-Watch server to monitor traffic.
Traffic up to 1,015 TB
NTP server in operation.
First IPv6 peerings
Second point of presence, in Telvent.
F-root name server from ISC, installed.
20 connected entities
The European Peering Forum, in Barcelona
2nd ESNOG Meeting: CATNIX hosts the ESNOG meeting for the first time
New CATNIX image to celebrate the 10th anniversary
New services in CATNIX
Root name servers A and J of VeriSign and TLD .com i .net, in operation.
New website with online statistics.
Looking Glass incorporates IPv6.
Speedtest installed at CATNIX
25 participants, 2,632 TB of traffic.
L root name server from ICANN, hosted at CATNIX
Link between switches upgraded to 2 Gbps.
F-root server, renewed
The founder and president of ISC, Paul Vixie, visits F-root server at CATNIX.
RIPE Atlas probe, installed
Link between switches upgraded to 10 Gbps.
1st 10 Gbps connection
RIPE Route Collector from RIPE RIS, in operation.
K-root name server from RIPE NCC, installed.
bitNAP, third point of presence
30 members, 19,939 TB of traffic.
New monitoring panel in operation.
New services router
M-Lab node, installed.
35 members, 41,400 TB of traffic.
30th Euro-IX Forum, in Barcelona.
30 Gbps connection between nodes
PCH/Quad9 node, installed.
CATNIX, member of MANRS.
20 years of internet exchange in Catalonia
43 peers.
CATNIX. The Catalonia Neutral Internet Exchange Point