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Equinix to buy IXEurope (TIX Telehouse in Zürich)
by Andre Oppermann 29 Jun '07

29 Jun '07

Today Equinix announced their intent to buy the whole IXEurope Group including the Swiss operations in Zurich and Geneva. I don't expect any changes other than a new logo and new email addresses (with forwardings from the old ones). TIX will just continue to operate as it did since I built it eight years ago. It's nice to see my baby TIX (Telehouse Facilities AG, Zürich -> IXEurope Switzerland AG) having grown so much and now becoming part of the (now) global Equinix data center and Internet exchange operator. For all newcomers to the telco scene in Switzerland. I founded the data center known as TIX or Telehouse Zürich in 1998 with financial help from my friends Oliver Küpfer and Christoph Lautenschlager. From 1998 till November 1999 when Nicole Bernet (actually my wife since two weeks ago) joined I did almost every- thing as a one-man show. It was very exhausting but it worked out nicely. With Nicole we quickly accelerated the build out of new space, first 3rd floor in Hard 235 and later 3rd floor in Josef 225 and hired more employees to get all the work done. The demand for space was incredible and was driving us to our financial limits. At the same time we got approached by a number of other venture financed pan-European data center operators. Eventually IXEurope prevailed and made the best and most interesting offer so we merged in October 2000. An IPO was planned for November and I still remember the IPO preparations and procedures I had to participate in as Country Manager of the Swiss operations. Due to the detoriating market situation the IPO was cancelled and not attempted again until April 2006. In December 2000 I decided to move on with a new interesting project and to vacate my job as IXEurope Switzerland Country Manager by February 2001. My bosses at IXEurope gave me the task to select my own successor. I opted for Frits van der Graaff (he's still the Country Manager) and Nicole Bernet for Data Center Operations Manager (which she has excellently done since she started). I moved to the Chairmain of the Swiss board position until March 2003. I want to thank all current and former IXEurope Switzerland (and the other countries as well) for their hard work and dedication to their job making it a huge success. PS: Nicole got her own business now called Angelfood doing catering, really nice team events and having a cooking lounge in Zollikon/Zürich. It's really worth a visit: http://www.angelfood.ch. -- Andre Oppermann Press Release: EQUINIX TO ACQUIRE EUROPEAN NETWORK-NEUTRAL DATA CENTER OPERATOR IXEUROPE IN $482 MILLION DEAL Equinix Continues Expansion Efforts to Further Strengthen Position as Leader in Colocation and Network Exchange Services Market, and to Provide Customers with Comprehensive Global Solution Foster City, CA – June 27, 2007 (11:00 PM PT) – Equinix, Inc. (Nasdaq: EQIX), the leading provider of network-neutral data centers and Internet exchange services, announced today its firm intention to make an offer for the entire issued share capital of IXEurope Plc (“IXEurope”, AIM: IXE), a provider of colocation services in Europe. The acquisition comes as Equinix is in the midst of a more than $450 million expansion program in the U.S. and Asia-Pacific since 2006, and it is expected to strengthen Equinix’s market leading position by enabling the company to offer a comprehensive global solution for customers. Equinix will integrate IXEurope’s network-neutral data center business and operations under the Equinix brand. IXEurope’s business includes 14 data centers comprising more than 380,000 square feet of net sellable space throughout Europe, including centers in London, Zurich, Frankfurt, Munich, Paris, Dusseldorf and Geneva. The company’s more than 450 enterprise and Internet customers include Merrill Lynch, Avis Europe, Deutsche Boerse, Citigroup, Rackspace and SurfControl. With the addition of IXEurope to Equinix’s announced expansions, Equinix will have a total footprint of more than three million square feet of data center space across 17 markets in the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific, making it the most comprehensive, network neutral, global service provider in the market. Equinix is targeting completion of the transaction in mid-September 2007. The closing and its timing are subject to the approval of IXEurope’s stockholders and the UK courts as well as satisfaction or waiver of other closing conditions. The acquisition will allow Equinix to immediately expand into the European market, and it will enable Equinix to provide customers with a single-source global solution for their data center and network connectivity services. Despite the differences of the European market and the existence of multiple network-neutral players in the market, this acquisition offers Equinix a variety of benefits as the company builds upon its market leadership in the U.S. and Asia-Pacific. According to Tier 1 Research, global demand has outpaced supply by a factor of nearly three to one over the last 12 months. The European supply and demand imbalance is more than double the global rate with demand outpacing supply by a factor of more than six to one. “The strategic acquisition of IXEurope by Equinix will solidify Equinix’s position as the world’s market leading colocation provider with high-quality data centers across the United States, Asia-Pacific and Europe,” said Steve Smith, CEO of Equinix. “Customers are increasingly demanding global solutions as the colocation industry continues to grow at double digit rates, and IXEurope has become one of the top providers of colocation services in Europe, operating high-quality data centers in key markets. Its integration into Equinix will continue our growth and allow us to meet the increasing expansion requirements of our global content, network and enterprise customers. We look forward to welcoming the customers and employees of IXEurope into Equinix.” “Since its launch in 1999, IXEurope’s management has successfully established 14 IXDatacentres in four countries (4 IXDatacentres since its initial public offering in 2006), providing colocation services to many blue-chip, international customers,” said Guy Willner, CEO of IXEurope. “The combination of IXEurope’s European reach and operational expertise with Equinix’s existing global operations will further extend Equinix's market leading position and allow it to further leverage the tremendous growth opportunities that exist in the colocation market worldwide.” The current management team, including Guy Willner, IXEurope CEO, and Christophe de Buchet, IXEurope COO, will join Equinix and continue to operate the European business. Equinix and IXEurope will assemble an integration team comprised of senior managers to ensure a seamless integration. Equinix’s European regional headquarters will be located in London. Financial Terms of the Transaction The acquisition and related transaction costs are being financed out of Equinix corporate cash reserves and unsecured debt financing under committed facilities from Citigroup. Under the terms of the acquisition, IXEurope shareholders will receive 125 pence, or approximately $2.50 per share in cash (at current exchange rates), for each IXEurope share held at the Scheme Record Time, valuing the existing issued share capital of IXEurope at approximately £241 million, or $482 million. The Directors of IXEurope have agreed to recommend that IXEurope shareholders vote in favor of the resolutions to approve the Offer at the relevant shareholder and court meetings. Primary Shareholders representing in aggregate, 120,460,826 issued IXEurope Shares, (representing approximately 67 percent of the existing issued share capital of IXEurope) have agreed, subject to customary limitations, to vote in favor of the Offer at the relevant court and shareholder meetings. Equinix will hold an investor conference call today at 8:00 a.m. Eastern Time (5:00 a.m. Pacific Time) to discuss the details of this announcement. To hear the conference call, please dial 773-799-3263 (domestic and international) at 7:50 a.m. (ET) and reference the passcode (EQIX). A simultaneous live Webcast of the call will be available over the Internet at www.equinix.com, under the Investor Relations heading. A replay of the call will be available beginning on Thursday, June 28, 2007, at 11:00 a.m. (ET) through July 30, 2007 by dialing 203-369-3287. In addition, the Webcast will be available on the company's Web site at www.equinix.com. No password is required for either method of replay. About Equinix Equinix is the leading global provider of network-neutral data centers and Internet exchange services for enterprises, content companies, systems integrators and network services providers. Through the company’s Internet Business Exchange™ (IBX®) centers in 10 markets in the U.S. and Asia, customers can directly interconnect with every major global network and ISP for their critical peering, transit and traffic exchange requirements. These interconnection points facilitate the highest performance and growth of the Internet by serving as neutral and open marketplaces for Internet infrastructure services, allowing customers to expand their businesses while reducing costs.

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spamhaus.org
by Andreas Anderson 27 Jun '07

27 Jun '07

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Re: [swinog] spamhaus.org (Ich bin abwesend ...)
by Markus Schlup 22 Jun '07

22 Jun '07

.. von Montag, 25. Juni 2007 bis Freitag 6. Juli 2007. Bei dringenden Fragen oder Problemen wenden Sie sich bitte an meinen Stellvertreter, Herrn Christoph Aeschbacher (061 264 1689). Freundliche Grüsse, Markus Schlup Confidentiality Notice This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to which they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete all copies from your system. BANK CIAL (SWITZERLAND), its employees, associates and subsidiaries do not accept liability for any unintentional damage caused by this email, its contents or any attachments nor any unauthorised access to, or interference with this email as a result of it. All emails to and from this address may be subject to interception or monitoring for operational reasons or for lawful business practices. BANK CIAL (SWITZERLAND) is not obliged to treat any order transmitted by email. The notice of cancellation of any contract where BANK CIAL (SWITZERLAND) is a party is not valid if transmitted by email.

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Fwd: You can say NO to the Microsoft Office format as an ISO standard
by Per Jessen 22 Jun '07

22 Jun '07

Please sign the petition here : http://www.noooxml.org/petition/ (cookies have to be enabled for this site) /Per Jessen, Zürich -- http://www.spamchek.com/ - your spam is our business.

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blackholed network 212.243.197.6
by Adrian Senn 20 Jun '07

20 Jun '07

Hi all Traceroute over ip plus to 212.243.197.6 seams to be dropped. tracert ns0.space4u.com Any idea what else is happening? Routenverfolgung zu ns0.space4u.com [212.243.197.6] über maximal 30 Abschnitte: 1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms smc.senntec.ch [10.1.1.1] 2 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms eth0.r1.senn.ch [213.144.132.49] 3 2003 ms 107 ms 161 ms lo0.lns2.bbcs.init7.net [213.144.128.206] 4 138 ms 25 ms 12 ms r4.core.init7.net [213.144.128.4] 5 61 ms 45 ms 47 ms r1zrh.ce.init7.net [82.197.168.17] 6 31 ms 41 ms 329 ms i79tix-015-gig2-17.bb.ip-plus.net [164.128.22.97 ] 7 153 ms 190 ms 220 ms i79zhh-015-xxx1-4.bb.ip-plus.net [138.187.129.73 ] 8 15 ms 14 ms 14 ms i75sgw-000-gig0-1.bb.ip-plus.net [138.187.130.42 ] 9 * * * Zeitüberschreitung der Anforderung. 10 * * * Zeitüberschreitung der Anforderung. 11 ^C same from switch traceroute to 212.243.197.6 (212.243.197.6), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets 1 swiCS5-V108 (130.59.108.5) 0.285 ms 0.208 ms 0.184 ms 2 swiCS3-10GE-1-3 (130.59.15.189) 0.251 ms 0.440 ms 0.221 ms 3 swiEZ2-10GE-5-2 (130.59.36.18) 0.267 ms 0.370 ms 0.229 ms 4 swiIX1-10GE-1-1 (130.59.36.250) 0.320 ms 0.309 ms 0.299 ms 5 tix-1.ip-plus.net (194.42.48.72) 0.777 ms 0.457 ms 0.357 ms 6 i79zhh-015-xxx1-4.bb.ip-plus.net (138.187.129.73) 0.456 ms 0.398 ms 0.388 ms 7 i75sgw-000-gig0-1.bb.ip-plus.net (138.187.130.42) 1.620 ms 1.723 ms 1.728 ms 8 * * * 9 * Adrian

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OT: job offer in zh
by friibii 20 Jun '07

20 Jun '07

hi all, if you're interestend in a new job as a (junior) SystemAdministrator have a look at http://www.lifeware.ch/company_job.cfm and/or contact me offlist (I'm the 'old' one.. ;-)) cu friibii

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RE: [swinog] vtx ADSL /30 subnet practice
by Jérôme Tissières 15 Jun '07

15 Jun '07

First usable, 01. Cu, Jerome > -----Message d'origine----- > De : swinog-bounces(a)lists.swinog.ch > [mailto:swinog-bounces@lists.swinog.ch] De la part de Daniel > Roethlisberger > Envoyé : lundi, 4. juin 2007 13:54 > À : swinog(a)swinog.ch > Objet : Re: [swinog] vtx ADSL /30 subnet practice > > Jérôme Tissières <jerome.tissieres(a)smart-telecom.ch> 2007-06-04: > > Yes, I confirm if you order a /30, /29, /28, etc to VTX, > the first IP > > of the subnet is assigned to the CPE with the right mask associated. > > The "first" being what is normally referred to as the network > address (ending in bits 00) or the first "normal" address > (end bits 01)? > > -Dan > > -- > Daniel Roethlisberger <daniel(a)roe.ch> > _______________________________________________ > swinog mailing list > swinog(a)lists.swinog.ch > http://lists.swinog.ch/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/swinog >

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VoIP fraud
by Zoran Brakus 15 Jun '07

15 Jun '07

Hi everyone, for some of you the topic of VoIP fraud might be interesting, especially if you are in VoIP/Telecoms industry. You an check the anti-fraud project at www.voipfraud.net. According to the feedback collected during recent GTM 2007 in Washington, many people from this global industry are still not aware of the VoIP fraud threat. From my own (or my companies) experience I can say that VoIP fraud is not something that "happens to someone else"; fortunately we have managed to discover fraud attempts early enough. However, there are many thiefs outside and they could be very dangerous (some of them managed to steal out several millions dollars and to harm dozens of companies). So, probably it makes sense to inform people at least about their existence, their names and schemes they are using. On the mentioned web-site you can find an interesting part about fraud schemes and also the list of already identified cheaters. Such information could be (at least partly) useful even for a people who are not strictly in VoIP/Telecoms business. -- Regards, Zoran Brakus Angel Telecom AG

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bluewin - hostcenter.com
by Rene Luria 14 Jun '07

14 Jun '07

Someone from bluewin hostcenter.com contact me off list please. or at +41 22 820 35 41

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OT: Intergenia AG is hiring an senior network engineer
by Gunther Stammwitz 14 Jun '07

14 Jun '07

Hello colleagues, I know this is partly OT so let's keep it short and simple: Intergenia AG is hiring an senior network engineer at it location in Hürth next to cologne, Germany. If you are interested have a look at the attached document and contact them. Sorry.. This document is available in German only. Thanks for your patience, Gunther

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