The Real Internet JUNKIE

NYIIX , the east costs largest public peering exchange experienced some performance troubles today from 05:30 EST thru 16:00 EST. As of writing this post things seem to be back to normal.

My company Atlantic Metro saw a large influx of support requests relating to network performance to many ISPs that we peer with us on this peering exchange. Our engineers we able to quickly drain traffic and pass it over alternate routes. It seems we were not the only network to do this, as we got several notifications from GOOGLE who we also peer with, saying they were draining traffic from all peers until the issues were resolved.

As you can see from the traffic graphs something was clearly going wrong.

The following is a list of peering exchange members that were affected by todays outage.

Belgacom
AS6774

IIJ
AS2497

Tele2
AS1257

Microsoft 2nd
AS8075

Highwinds
AS12989

Abovenet
AS6461

C&W
AS1273
nLayer
AS4436

Terremark
AS23148

Swisscom
AS3303

Freedom
AS36692

TDS
AS4181

Eze Castle
AS14717

Megapath
AS4565

Verisign
AS36619

DataPipe
AS14492

Layer42
AS8121

Comstar
AS8359

Steadfast
AS32748

PCH
AS3856

RETN
AS9002

Telenor
AS2119

Microsoft
AS8075

Google
AS15169

WBS
AS19080

Voxel
AS29791

Cablevision
AS6128

BT networks
AS5400

Yahoo
AS10310

Time Warner
AS4323

Mzima
AS25973

Limelight
AS22822

Akamai
AS20940

Bharti
AS9498

Cox
AS22773

Internap
AS22212

Cavalier
AS16810

Bandcon
AS26769

UPC
AS6830

1&1
AS8560

IPnetzone
AS20077

Integra
AS7385

Reliance Globalcom
AS15412

Edgecast Networks
AS15133

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Atlantic Metro Communications is proud to announce that it will be sponsoring the Web Hosting Industry Review Networking Event in San Francisco on February 11th 2009.

Event Location: ICON Ultra Lounge
Start time: 7 PM PST

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Full event information can be found here: http://whirevents.com/sf.html

re-blog from my new friend Jess Eddy over at ARC90

We arrived at Mashable’s New Year NYC Networking Event at 212 Restaurant and Bar last night around 7:30, prepared to spread the good news of our first product launch, Kindling. Much to our surprise, there was a pretty significant line already forming. We thought, ok – cool, we’ll just wait in line with everybody else and chit chat to pass the time. Who says you can’t wait and network at the same time? Someone started passing out cookies (always a plus). At this point it’s about 10 degrees on 65th Street. After a few minutes, word gets out that the restaurant is full to capacity and no one is allowed to enter until more people leave. Needless to say, this was not good news.

This is when things started to get interesting. We were already with a great group of people that we wanted to hang out with and get to know better, we just needed warmth, space and alcohol. There was clearly only one option in this scenario: host an alternative party.

Jen, our in-house, one-woman, PR-machine took this task very seriously and paired up with someone else (Frederick) who was standing in line. They immediately started scouting the area for bars. The area seemed to lack a nightlife… all they could find was a hair salon called “Blow” (and even if it was a bar, probably wasn’t the kind of place we were looking for, as comically noted by Frederick). Meanwhile, Rich was searching the Internet on his iPhone and had a short list of possibilities, one of which was the Carriage House, a semi-short walk away. We knew this was our place. Jen and Chris rounded up the troops and started corralling everyone downtown. Once the word got out, the masses took followed us towards our new prospect of a bar. It was hard to tell at the time, but there appeared to be a steady stream of people up and down the sidewalk. We were almost to the bar when we were split up by a miscalculated green light. This is where we really bonded; it was cold, the walk was longer than we thought, and the Carriage House wasn’t exactly where the Internet promised it would be. Doubt was starting to set in and we feared losing some of the group, but Jen quelled the dissension and we forged on.

When we finally arrived at the Carriage House, it was like walking into heaven. Aside from finding warmth, it was the perfect place. There was empty space in the back of an otherwise busy bar and it just seemed to be waiting for us to arrive. We coordinated with the hostess and told her to direct anyone looking for the Mashable event towards the back. When we saw the long line of people streaming in, it finally hit us. We were hosting a party!

There were so many amazing people there. Between Twitter and word of mouth, the word had spread and Mashable’s own Adam Hirsch even joined us for awhile. What was particularly surprising was the sheer diversity of reasons that people came to last night’s event. Some were affected by the recession, some were scouting new talent, some were pandering their recent inventions to the Tech World Elite. There were writers and accountants and programmers and bloggers and radio DJs and VCs. Jeremy showed photos of his 10-month old daughter. Lucius demonstrated a recent iPhone app he’d written. Lauren crossed out the info on her old business cards and scribbled her new info on the backs. Our own Josh challenged people to games of darts and snapped some pictures on the side. In short, it was exactly the way you want a networking to be: connective.

The night was great for a variety of reasons, but mainly because of the people. We could have thrown in the towel and headed home, but we soldiered on, made friends and new connections. But we couldn’t have done it without the goodwill of the others; we were excited to have spontaneously gathered a group of new friends.

To put a perfect end to a perfect story, the Carriage House sent us flowers this morning…seriously, they did. Big thanks to the Carriage House who was not expecting us, but took great care of us. We had a fantastic time!

Several Companies will soon be bringing online a new Network Transport link between New York & Chicago. This new route will have a overall round-trip latency of 16-17 milliseconds which is 5 milliseconds less than some current paths being utilized by major network providers and trading firms.

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For more information about low-latency network transport please contact Atlantic Metro Communications

Vote for the Chicago Internet eXchange (ChIX) for the Telecom Associates Member Choice Award

We are happy to report that The Chicago Internet Exchange has been nominated for a Telecom Associates Member Choice Award in the following category:

IP Exchange

But we need your help! VOTE FOR ChIX Please! The more votes we accrue, the better our chances. And the form is fast and easy.

IP Exchange | Chicago Internet eXchange (ChIX)

In the first space provided on the form, please cut and paste the above category, and include ChIX as your choice next to each category. Then include your contact details as requested, and click “submit”.

Who can vote? Active and independent telecom agents, auditors, consultants, VARs and/or other individuals who distribute or recommend telecom or data solutions directly to businesses and who have an informed opinion about which solution providers do the best job. If this describes you, please go to: http://www.telecomassociation.com/TAvote/2009_files/ballot_page.htm

For any further information or questions, please contact Stephen Klenert or James Cornman – support[at]chicagoix.net

Thank you for your continued support of the Chicago Internet Exchange.

Sincerely,

Stephen Klenert, Founding Member Metro Xchanges NFP

James Cornman, Founding Memeber Metro Xchange NFP

As some of you know I currently live on a beautiful 3 block st in the West Village of Manhattan. Recently this area has started to become more active to tourists area and businesses. There are currently 7 hotels in a 5 block radius that are already open or will be opening soon. Here is a brief overview of them

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Four Points by Sheraton
66 Charlton St – NYC
150 Rooms
Currently Open

Unamed hotel
68-74 Charlton St – NYC

Viceroy Hotel
330 Hudson St – NYC
168 Rooms
Opening 2010

Wingate Inn
179 Varick St – NYC
123 Rooms
Opening 2009

Trump Soho “Condo Hotel”
410 Rooms
Opening 2009

Hampton Inn
52 Watts St – NYC
158 Rooms
Currently Open

Unnamed Hotel
140-150 6th Ave – NYC

Grand St Hotel
27 Grand St – NYC
114 Rooms
Opening some time in the future

MEDIA ALERT:

ATLANTIC METRO COMMUNICATIONS SPONSORS WORDCAMP NY OCTOBER 6, 2008

New York, NY, October 2, 2008: Atlantic Metro Communications (AMC), a managed Internet service provider offering colocation, IP transit, nation-wide transport and New York metro area dark fiber solutions, is pleased to announce they are sponsoring WordCamp New York 2008. The event is being held on Sunday, October 6, 2008 and will feature the following speakers:

- Matt Mullenweg (Keynote speaker) — Talking on “The State of WordPress”
- Michael Hampton – WordPress Security
- Jeremy Clarke – Blogging Networks
- Jen Simmons – Video Blogging
- Aaron Brazell – Making it into the Big Leagues
- Shay David – Interactive Blogging

WordCamp is a conference that focuses on WordPress technology and platforms. Attendees range from casual end users to core developers. The New York event, being held at Sun Microsystems’ offices at 101 Park Avenue, is currently oversold at 152 tickets.

The event is made possible by sponsors that include: Kaltura, an open source video solution for any site; Margaret Roach Inc.; Atlantic Metro Communications; and Sun Microsystems. The NY event will be held Sunday, October 5, 2008 from 9:30am-6:00pm. The $30.00 entrance fee includes a catered lunch and a WordCamp NY 2008 t-shirt.

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For more information about WordCamp:

Socialize:

Facebook http://www.new.facebook.com/event.php?eid=77881775421

Meetup: http://newtech.meetup.com/21/calendar/8816208/

About Atlantic Metro Communications

Since 2002, Atlantic Metro Communications has operated state-of-the-art Internet Data Centers and networks throughout the New York Metropolitan area and Chicago. The company also provides managed Internet Service Provider (ISP) solutions, colocation, metro transport, IP bandwidth, managed hosting & voice solutions. Atlantic Metro Communications provides services to many ISPs, web hosting solution providers, enterprise financial networks, Web 2.0 startups, VoIP suppliers, and carriers. Currently, Atlantic Metro Communication’s global network includes multiple PoPs in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, New York, Toronto, Canada and London, UK. For more information on Atlantic Metro Communications, please visit www.atlanticmetro.net.

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As reported by Tiscali International Network: http://www.tiscali.com/our_news/press/2008/TINET_and_Chicago_IX.html

Milan, Italy and Chicago, IL USA, 23rd September 2008 – Tiscali International Network (TINet), the world’s only carrier exclusively dedicated to the wholesale IP-MPLS market, and The Chicago IX (ChIX), the first non-profit Internet Exchange platform operating in Chicago, Illinois, today announced that TINet’s Remote Peering solutions are now available to the ChIX member community. This groundbreaking peering arrangement will open up TINet’s Remote Peering Solutions to an anxious new market segment and further solidify the Chicago IX’s role as a key Internet exchange Point in the Mid-West.

TINet’s Remote Peering product offer customers a variety of choices that include point-to-point and point-to-multipoint solutions as well as dedicated bandwidth and bandwidth on-demand options. These IP ‘flavours’ are specifically engineered to be optimized over TINet’s global MPLS network where latency is guaranteed and Class of Service (CoS) is monitored and enforced through their world-class 24×7 pro-active monitoring and help desk.

The ChIX, a non-profit platform, is a unique service model. ChIX is managed and delivered by some of the leading minds in the industry and provides the IP community with a network neutral platform focused on providing quality of service while simultaneously focused on creating a community that works together.

“TINet is an ideal partner who brings a valuable product and solution to the ChIX community,” commented James Cornman, Chief Technical Officer of Metro Xchanges, the managing company of the ChIX. “To enable fast, simple, Ethernet connectivity to a global leader providing quality MPLS solutions is a value add, not only to members of the ChIX, but any network provider looking to enter the Chicago market.”

“The ChIX offers TINet a unique experience to offer our quality class of service, products and solutions to a sophisticated market-place,” added Paolo Gambini, CMO of Tiscali International Network. “ We see this as an opportunity to expand our reach, while participating in ground-breaking chance to be part of a growing community.”

The ChIX platform was made possible by donations from Atlantic Metro Communications, Steadfast Networks, Bit Gravity, Townsend Asset Group, James Cornman and Stephen Klenert. The platform is located at 350 East Cermak Road, Suite 240 in Chicago, Illinois.

For more information on TINet please visit www.tiscali.net

As most of you know, in January 2008 I helped found Metro Xchanges NFP. Metro Xchanges NFP is a non-profit organization dedicated to operating stable internet exchanges across the globe for the greater good of the internet community.

Our first exchange point is located in Chicago Illinois and called ChIX “The Chicago Internet eXchange”

We will be launching more exchange points over the next 90 days, but we need your help. Please make a donation to Metro Xchanges NFP to help us expand. All donations are tax deductible.

A big “THANK YOU” to all those who have donated money, hardware, and time to us in the past.