Change Log

• 14.01.2000 Rewritten from a 1997 draft that was never made public.
• 26.04.2000 Pages were put online.
• 30.06.2000 Added EtherChannel as a possible connection method to explore.
• 04.06.2001 Changed the goals a bit to indicate eTampere orientation. Also removed EtherChannel from the connection method options and simplified the implementation a bit. Added a budget draft into the Administrative Implementation section.
• 10.09.2001 We have been chosen as an eTampere broadband project.
• 16.10.2001 Updated the budget draft and added more concrete information on how the company would work.
• 17.10.2001 TREX was represented at a high technology fair that was held in Pirkkahalli, Tampere.
• 23.10.2001 Added references to DWDM and WLAN roaming on the goals page. The "possible services" section should probably be moved elsewhere from that page ...
• 01.02.2002 eTampere selected eAccelerator to draft the necessary paperwork to create the company that will be TREX.
• 04.06.2002 eAccelerator's drafts are ready, but the summer arrives before they are approved by all initial parties, so progress is marred by vacations.
• 19.07.2002 Added a research page and changed the goals page to reflect the mutually accepted order and wording. Updated content on almost all other pages as well.
• 03.10.2002 TREX Tampere Region Exchange Oy (ltd) registered.
• 17.03.2003 New look and feel for pages. New domain.
• 25.06.2003 First core switch arrived and was installed.
• 08.07.2003 Added service descriptions.
• 01.09.2003 New domain name, trex.fi.
• 10.09.2003 Official press release in Finnish.
• 11.09.2003 Official press release in English.
• 17.09.2003 Added IP addresses and AS number.
• 07.10.2003 Added the Member Information Template on the Agreements page.
• 14.10.2003 Separated the BGP Peering Requirements on a page of its own, and linked it to the Unicast, BMTU and Requirements pages.
• 17.10.2003 Added IPv6 address generation algorithm for peering VLANs.
• 16.02.2004 Moved address assignments to separate pages from the member list page and added links to it around the site.
• 08.03.2004 There is now an RDF feed for news about the exchange.
• 13.04.2004 Added Q-in-Q and MPLS-in-Q services.
• 24.05.2004 TREX joined a new workgroup created by Ficora. This workgroup will define the interfaces that broadband access network operators use to give Internet service providers access to their networks.
  TREX's aim is to create a neutral interconnection point for this purpose.
• 13.08.2004 Added the street address for the first switch on the Contact Info page.
• 2005-2006 TREX took part in Dependability Evaluation Methods for IP Networks, a research project coordinated by VTT.
• 01.10.2006 Capnova and Tavitex/Nebula left TREX.
• 01.12.2006 FUNET joined TREX.
• 15.01.2009 Started preparing TREX Workshop 2009.
• 12.02.2009 Hosted TREX Workshop 2009. Power point slides available.
• 31.08.2009 Second switch installed.
• 29.12.2009 New fee structure for next year onwards.
• 19.02.2010 Hosted TREX Workshop 2010. Videos and power point slides available.
• 11.03.2010 Added multicast peering details and removed Big MTU service, after the MTU in the normal unicast peering service was changed. Also removed sub-gigabit connection options while adding 10GbE.
• 15.06.2010 Added Single European Payments Area account number.
• 04.07.2010 Created pages describing the Teredo and recursive DNS servers.
• 11.08.2010 Added new PI IPv6 block 2001:67c:2b0::/48.
• 12.08.2010 Third switch installed, this one with 10GbE support.
• 12.08.2010 Cybercom Plenware joined TREX at 10GbE.
• 15.11.2010 Added a side menu to printable versions.
• 30.11.2010 Gave a presentation at Funet's technical days.
• 20.12.2010 Elisa's connection speed upgraded to 10GbE.
• 13.01.2011 Capnova connected to TREX.
• 19.01.2011 FNE Finland connected to TREX.
• 31.01.2011 CommunityDNS connected to TREX.
• 01.02.2011 Added a column for the Route Server in the members list.
• 02.02.2011 Started providing Route Server service to members.
• 01.03.2011 Added anycasted services to the members page.
• 06.03.2011 Started providing DNS64/NAT64 service.
• 08.03.2011 Seclan connected to TREX.
• 17.03.2011 Revamped public statistics.
• 23.03.2011 Academica connected to TREX.
• 29.06.2011 Announced TREX Workshop 2011.
• 29.06.2011 Changed the old RDF/RSS feed into an Atom news feed.
• 04.09.2011 Added traffic statistics link on the front page.
• 12.01.2012 CSC/Funet upgraded their connection to 10GbE