| 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 request for ASNs to Bill "Woody" Woodcock |
| September 13 & 14, 2003 |
Meeting to agree on setup and implementation (Sendoro &
Frank)
|
| September 22, 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
|
| 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
|
| 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)!
|
| 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 24 hours!
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 |
| November 1, 2010 |
UhuruOne connected to TIX |
| February 24, 2011 |
Aptus Solutions connected to TIX |
| February 8, 2012 |
Six Telecoms Company Limited (AS37149) connected to TIX
|
| June 13, 2012 |
TRA now connected with IPv6: *> 2001:43F8:610::/48 |
| October 24, 2012 |
67Mbps traffic spike across TIX |
| May 9, 2013 |
Bell Communications Ltd (AS37126) connected to TIX and
immediately had over 6Mbps traffic!
|
| August 15, 2013 |
Tanzania Ports Authority (TPA) (AS37362) connected to TIX
|
| August 7, 2014 |
Smart (AS33772) connected to TIX |
| January 20, 2015 |
e-Government Agency (eGA) (AS 327795) connected |
| April 7, 2015 |
Verisign RIRS (AS 26415) connected, providing a DNS root
server (J.root-servers.net) and a GTLD DNS server for .com
and .net zones (B.gtld-servers.net)
|
| April 18, 2015 |
SEACOM (AS 37100) connected, providing a local GGC to TIX
peers
|
| June 8, 2015 |
PCH (AS 42 & AS 3856) connected, providing "E" DNS Root
server and DNS for several TLDs
|
| September 15, 2015 |
Liquid Telecom (AS 30844) connected, first international
network to do so
|
| December 18, 2015 |
Akamai (AS 20940) connected |
| March 10, 2016 |
CTV (AS 327728) connected |
| April 11, 2016 |
Smile Communications (AS327692) connected |
| August 16, 2016 |
Atemi Data Networks (AS 37423) connected |
| August 18, 2016 |
CMC Networks (AS 25818) connected |
| August 30, 2016 |
Halotel (AS 327885) connected. First Tanzanian peer
(non-CDN) connected with 10G!
|
| January 25, 2017 |
SIMPLYCONNECT (AS 327900) connected. |
| August 20, 2017 |
Capital Technologies (AS 327859) connected. |
| October 10, 2017 |
SEACOM (AS 37100) connected. Not just a GGC, whole AS37100 network. |
| October 31, 2017 |
AfriNIC DNS services (AS 37177 and AS 37181) connected. |
| May 2, 2018 |
TERNET (AS37182) connected to TIX. |
| October 24, 2018 |
Implemented Large BGP Communities (RFC8092) at the TIX route servers. |
| February 8, 2019 |
Reached a new record of 20Gbps. And then a utility power outage affected consumers :-( . |
| June 15, 2019 |
created ROA for TIX management IP blocks. |
| July 18, 2019 |
created ROAs for all of TISPA's IXP peering LAN IP blocks. With AS 0. |
| July 18, 2019 |
Net Solutions (AS328514) connected to TIX. Same day they got ASN and IP! |
| September 9, 2019 |
TISPA submitted a position paper to the Ministry for Works, Transport and Communication as input for the SADC Ministers' meeting. |
| February 13, 2020 |
passed 10Gbps of traffic. |
| February 24, 2020 |
Finally the last peer (BoT) stopped using as private ASN and changed to their public one (AS327778). |
| May 17, 2021 |
AS31810 re-connects as EchoTel. |
| September 14, 2021 |
AS63293 - Facebook connects to TIX. |
| September 17, 2021 |
AS328895 - Wincable connects to TIX. |
| February 3, 2022 |
Akamai enabled a new cluster. |
| September 12, 2022 |
Dimension Data (AS3741) connected to TIX. |
| July 11, 2023 |
Cybernet - Arusha Art Ltd - AS37143 connected to TIX. |
| March 26, 2024 |
upgraded Akamai TIX connection to 10x 10Gbps |
| April 5, 2024 |
TIX has over 90 Gbps of traffic, of which more than half is from Akamai |
