Cork Neutral Internet eXchange Association Limited
Cork Neutral Internet Exchange Association Limited (CNIX) is a not-for-profit association.
It was founded on June 30th, 2009, by leading members
of the Cork business community. Its fundamental aim is to support the local economy by building local
infrastructure to enable higher capacity, lower latency and lower cost data transfer to homes and businesses
in the Munster region.
Active Projects
- Cork IX: provides a high-speed, reliable and resilient Internet traffic exchange facility in Cork,
thereby providing faster, more reliable and lower-latency internet access.
- National IX: CNIX is, in turn, a peer to the national Internet Neutral eXchange (INEX)
and as a result offers its members cost effective aggregation of peering to the national Internet eXchange.
- Cloud Valley: is a high speed (160Gbps) wave
division multiplexed (WDM) fiber ring around Cork City to increase network capacity to that required
for emerging applications such as cloud computing,
big data and video on demand applications.
- Training: CNIX has a virtualised infrastructure which is used to simulate network configurations before deployment.
This resource is both a training tool for members and a test environment before deployment.
To date, all of the equipment, hosting and solution development effort required by CNIX has been contributed by members
without charge.
Membership
Application for Associate Membership of CNIX is open to any organisation (including a person or sole trader) that wishes
to observe or assist the activities of the Association. An application must be proposed by an existing member and accepted
by a minimum of 60% of the current members. More than one person from a member organisation can attend meetings.
All member organisations have a single vote to elect officers and to change rules. However it is expected that
individual projects are managed by active participants. An active participant is defined as a member contributing
effort or resources and sharing the cost of a project.
