1. CIXP short updatePaolo Moroni (Slide 1) SwinNOG-3 September 19th 2001 CIXP: short update l Industry consolidation: some ISP have merged, but the average router size has increased l Industry competition: first non-Cisco router expected soon this year l Gigabit Ethernet demand is coming: first non- CERN connection expected this year

2. CIXP short updatePaolo Moroni (Slide 2) SwinNOG-3 September 19th 2001 Steady things l Steady growth in WDM equipment installation in the telecom room l Steady growth in traffic l Steady growth in demand for back-to-back peerings and cabling l Steady number of member ISP (mainly because of industry consolidation, but two withdrawals) l Continued successful partnership with Telehouse (Suisse) S.A.

3. CIXP short updatePaolo Moroni (Slide 3) SwinNOG-3 September 19th 2001 New things l More Gigabit Ethernet capacity (the only price difference is on the installation charge) l Euro-IX has started, with the CIXP as founding member l Interest in IPv6, also from non-research members l New DNS domain cixp.ch l Improvement of the WWW site is ongoing