An interesting bit of Manitoba networking history from Curtis Coleman. Curtis mentioned he implemented multihoming at Pangea between MBnet and PSINet on May 8th, 1997. The following year he added connections to UUNET and Sprint Canada. Pangea was the first local ISP to implement multihoming. MBnet was multihomed between Bell and Sprint in early 1999.
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Part of our missed-post-at-the-time series. Story should have been posted 2021-05-01 MBIX has added a peering switch on the 8th floor of 355 Portage. This switch resides within LES.NET colocation, and Fastnet can also provide optical cross-connects to the MBIX switch. This expansion is a Cisco Nexus 3064-X switch, with 4x10Gbps links to […] Part of our missed-post-at-the-time series. Story should have been posted 2021-05-10 Flex Networks (AS19523) has joined MBIX. Flex is a Canadian ISP which has recently expanded into Manitoba. They operate a fibre optic network in several cities to service their customers. Another local peer means more local peering, which is the goal of […] Part of our missed-post-at-the-time series. Story should have been posted 2020-11-15 MBIX is pleased to announce that MERLIN (AS16796) has joined MBIX, connecting to our 167 Lombard switch at 10 Gbps. MERLIN is an specialized ISP providing service to many educational institutions in Manitoba, including school boards and post-secondary institutions. This Manitoba network […] |
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