[see-regional] BHIX = Bosnia and Herzegovina IXP = opening soon!

Great news!!

 
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On 5/31/18, 5:19 AM, "see-regional on behalf of Vesna Manojlovic" <see-regional-bounces at ripe.net on behalf of BECHA at ripe.net> wrote:

    Dear all,
    
    I'm happy to share the news I got from Emir Beganovic,
    about the BHIX (Bosnia and Herzegovina IXP) opening soon!
    
    Regards,
    Vesna
    
    
    This is what Emir Beganovic, founder of BHIX initiative, let me know:
    
    > I am glad that it is finally done after 8 years of me as a student
    > speaking about the idea, and then it getting traction now.
    
    In the end, as it goes, all really positive things that occurred in a a
    relatively short timespan:
    
    - IGF (Internet Governance Forum) meeting was held in December last
    year, mentioning importance of IXP
    (http://www.intgovforum.org/multilingual/index.php?q=filedepot_download/3568/979)
    
    - a really nice Minister from the Ministry of Communications & Transport
    understands the importance of IXP
    
    - NIC in Bosnia and Herzegovina gets selected as neutral point
    
    - three biggest providers gather together, as they have ever-growing
    traffic, and IXP makes sense for them
    
    - NIC managed to sign a founding Memorandum with three ISPs
    
    - 4G is finally coming to the country this year after so many
    unreasonable delays and law changes!
    
    Name is BHNIX, website will be available at bhnix.ba, nothing there yet
    except a default placeholder, but it should be a main page for all the
    news and statistics in future.
    
    Looking forward to see changes in the matrix at
    
    http://sg-pub.ripe.net/emile/ixp-country-jedi/latest/BA/geopath/index.html
    
    :-)
    
    
    Here is the official news statement in Bosnian, use Google Translate:
    http://www.utic.unsa.ba/2018/04/17/memorandum-o-uspostavljanju-prve-neutralne-tacke-za-razmjenu-internetskog-saobracaja-u-bosni-i-hercegovini/
    
    
    All the best,
    Emir
    
    
    
    
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