New Look Website for IXP Manager
New Look Website for IXP Manager
Barry O'Donovan, June 24, 2020
<ul>
<li>92 IXPs around the world are Powering Peering with IXP Manager</li>
<li>110 community individuals have contributed to the IXP Manager project through GitHub</li>
<li>104 software releases over ten years</li>
<li>New website located at <a href="https://www.ixpmanager.org/">https://www.ixpmanager.org/</a></li>
</ul>
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There are nearly one hundred internet exchange points (IXPs) around the world who are Powering Peering using <b>IXP Manager</b>.
In recognition of this upcoming milestone, we have just launched our new website which provides a better insight to the world’s favourite IXP platform.
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<p>
<b>IXP Manager</b> was released as free and open source software in 2011 by <a href="https://www.inex.ie/">INEX</a>,
the internet peering point for the island of Ireland, for the good of the internet and INEX continues to oversee the project.
Together with the financial support of industry patrons; sponsorship from IXPs using the platform; and community support,
<b>IXP Manager</b> has facilitated the opening and continued development of IXPs right around the globe.
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<p>
Ongoing development of <b>IXP Manager</b> is focused on delivering the functionality to meet the evolving
requirements of IXPs who use the platform so they, in turn, can meet their members' peering needs. We would
like to thank our existing patrons for helping us to continue Powering Peering: the Internet Society (ISOC);
Facebook; APNIC and the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA).
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<p>
The continued success of the <b>IXP Manager</b> project is best realised when those IXPs who use it, and benefit
the most from it, support the project. Our current IXP sponsors are INX (South Africa), STHIX (Stockholm, Sweden),
GRIX (Greece), NaMeX (Rome, Italy) and InterLAN (Romania). We would welcome
<a href="https://www.ixpmanager.org/sponsor-now">further sponsorship</a> from other IXPs using the platform.
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<p>
“As an open source project, IXP Manager promotes an <em>out in the open</em> support model through public
mailing lists and GitHub issues,” said Barry O'Donovan, the lead development of IXP Manager and a senior member
of the INEX Operations Team. “The new site has an improved support area which provides a consolidated summary of
the available resources including the mailing lists, official documentation, and presentations by the core team.
We have reinforced this support for those implementing IXP Manager at their exchanges by creating a video
training syllabus which is now available via our website and is being added to regularly.”
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<p>
You can find <a href="https://www.ixpmanager.org/community/user-list">the full list</a> of the nearly one hundred IXPs
using <b>IXP Manager</b> worldwide, and <a href="https://www.ixpmanager.org/community/world-map">a world map</a> showing
the global reach of the platform on the new site. We would welcome any other IXPs using the platform to let us know
through the new <a href="https://www.ixpmanager.org/community/users/submit">submission form</a>.
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<p>
With this new website, we want to recognise the wider community who contribute to the project with code, documentation
and opening and working on feature and support requests. In all, 110 individuals, thus far, have worked with the project
through <a href="https://github.com/inex/IXP-Manager">GitHub</a> and we welcome all those that have made at least five
contributions to <a href="https://www.ixpmanager.org/about/team">our new team page</a>.
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<p>
This new website reflects the professionalism and maturity of the platform itself and the essential internet services it
helps enable and we would encourage any user of <b>IXP Manager</b> that is not listed or any IXP who would like to sponsor
the project <a href="https://www.ixpmanager.org/about/contact">to get in touch</a>.
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