Morning everyone, You all remember the NZIX OpenFlow project I've been posting about of late. Well we've just ticked off Phase 3, and as far as we can tell it's another world first. Phase 3 was to implement a distributed SDN controlled fabric and pass production traffic over it. Today, with considerable support from Citylink, REANNZ and others in the SDN community. We have managed to extend our existing fabric across the city, provision our first customer link and pass their production traffic across the fabric and onto the WIX. I'll be giving some of the technical details at the NZNOG conference this week, but suffice to say that we're not about to stop here. We've got a distributed fabric now, and we're looking to extend this even further. 1) More locations. I still want Auckland and we're very close to having this be a reality 2) Look at further services this enables at Layer3 (going to working closely with Citylink on developing this) 3) Look at the auto-provisioning options this can provide at Layer2 So a couple of things to take away from this. . Remember that if you have a WIX peering session currently, I've already configured you a test session on my route server for you. Turn up a test session and convince yourself that it works router bgp 9483 bgp router-id 202.7.0.119 . If you have any suggestions of things we can be working on in the future then now's the time to get in touch and let us know your thoughts. What are the things that you always wished you could do on the exchange but couldn't? We can build those tools. . Thank you to all the people who made this success possible. If you've been a supporter since the beginning then we know who you are and thanks. See you that the conference! Regards, Dean