History of the Tanzania Internet eXchange -- TIX
TIX is a project of TISPA. TISPA was registered as a non-profit organisation in December 2002. Main motivation was to get an organisation to support the creation of a local Internet Exchange Point. This is only a short term goal and TISPA functions are not limited to that.
- September 05, 2003
- sending request for /24 to Bill Manning
- September 09, 2003
- got answer from Bill Manning and we can use 198.32.179.0/24 for TIX
- September 10, 2003
- sent req for ASNs to Bill "Woody" Woodcock
- September 13&14, 2003
- meeting to agree on setup and implementation (Sendoro&Frank)
- September 2?, 2003
- TCC meeting
- September 26, 2003
- TCC letter instructing all ISPs to connect to TIX
- October 13, 2003
- Afol & Raha did router work, stats server delivered&install started
- October 14, 2003
- sent email requesting ASN to ARIN
- October 17, 2003
- 1st successful BGP session between RR and AfOL border router. At same time also with raha.com border router
- October 27, 2003
- outage for one minute
- October 28, 2003
- outage for 3 hours (11 - 14 hrs EAT) for electrical installations.
- same time
- started to produce beautiful statistics at http://stats.tix.or.tz/ and http://stats.tix.or.tz/detail.html . Updated every 5 minutes. Traffic statistics also backed up daily.
- same time
- visits to TIX get boring since TIX is working perfectly, but noone exchanging traffic.
- October 29, 2003
- updated website to conform to XHTML 1.1. Logo&links on main page only.
- November 6, 2003
- 19:26 hrs raha.com was peering with TIX. Noone else to exchange traffic with.
- November 7, 2003
- Africa Online was peering with TIX.
- November 19, 2003
- Africa Online advertising all and ready for traffic. Some traffic around noon.
Later: Since raha.com down, noone else to exchange traffic with.
- December 8 or earlier, 2003
- raha.com peers BGP, but does not (yet) advertise routes. That means: traffic raha.com -> Africa Online working
- January 9, 2004
- CATS-Net connected, working --> 4 traffic flows working
- January 12, 2004
- added status text to http://stats.tix.or.tz/. Also archiving of routing info.
- January 13, 2004
- new and extremely beautiful version of http://www.tix.or.tz/how2connect.html
- January 13, 2004
- SimbaNet is peering with a test-phase
- January 13, 2004
- evening: raha.com fully peering: 4 ISPs fully peering = 12 traffic flows (6 duplex)
- January 17, 2004
- all ok & working. All peers satisfied with results.
- January 20, 2004
- testing routing updates if link drops. Test successful (though unplanned).
- March 23, 2004
- BoT connected.
- June 4, 2004
- SatCoNet connected (100Mbps).
- June 5, 2004
- COSTECH connected
- June 11, 2004
- Africa Online connects first _real_ AS - 31810
- June 19, 2004
- UCC connected
- July 6, 2004
- over 1 Mbps transferred !
- November 2, 2004
- Meeting with most ISPs to (re-) found TISPA the association
- end November 2004
- we had a bad week - power outages at Posta house
- February 15, 2005
- Benson Online joins TIX!
- March 3, 2005
- we had 2.4Mbps transferred - first time over 2Mbps!
- April 5, 2005
- AfSat have connected to TIX! Congratulations. They are the 9th peer joining up!
- April 29, 2005
- The University Computing Centre enabled their link (again) and is the 10th peer at TIX! Welcome!
- June 1, 2005
- Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology has connected as 11th peer to TIX.
- June 22, 2005
- Tanzania Telecommunications Company Limited has connected as 12th peer to TIX.
- August 2, 2005
- We received AS 33791 from AfriNIC we will soon change over peering to the new AS.
- September 5, 2005
- We configured AS33791 and peered with Africa Online and others
- September 15, 2005
- Most ISPs using eBGP now and official ASNs - very beautiful.
Also: first time over 1Mbps as 2-hour average!
- September 16, 2005
- the average transfer for the whole day of September 15th (24h) was >500kbps (5.5GByte transferred) !
Traffic for September 15, 2005.
- April 2, 2007
- Official TIX launch.
- June 11, 2007
- received our IPv4 PI assignment 196.223.5.0/24 from AfriNIC
- July 6, 2007
- applied for IPv6 addresses at AfriNIC
- July 11, 2007
- We received our IPv6 /48 assignment 2001:43f8::/48 from AfriNIC
- September 17, 2007
- Vodacom joined TIX
- October 22, 2007
- Zanlink joined TIX
- October 23, 2007
- Statistics server reachable on IPv6 as http://stats.ipv6.tix.or.tz/ (Thanks, Rikunj)
- November 7, 2007
- Celtel joined TIX
- June 25, 2008
- TRA joined TIX
- October 24, 2008
- WIA joined TIX
- November 11, 2008
- TISCAN joined TIX
- December 20, 2008
- Switch-over to the new switch donated by NSRC.
- March 20, 2009
- The aggregate traffic over TIX was greater than 20GB.
- March 27, 2009
- ALINK connected to TIX.
- May 29, 2009
- tzNIC connected to TIX.
- June 9, 2009
- average 24-h traffic was over 2 Mbps, but not for the first time.
- July 9, 2009
- Two new peers in one day! Both Vizada and Zantel have started peering.
- July 30, 2009
- average traffic of more than 2.5Mbps in last 24hours! Which means: more than 27GB transferred in this time.
- August 20, 2009
- our instance of the K-Root DNS server was activated, reducing latency to this DNS root server for all TIX peers.
- February 1, 2010
- Tigo connected to TIX.
- June 1, 2010
- SimbaNet enabled IPv6 on TIX.
for more info, please contact us at info@tix.or.tz.
TISPA
PO Box 80449
Dar es Salaam
Tanzania
WWW: http://tix.or.tz/
Email: info@tix.or.tz