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.
• 05.12.2003 Added Eunet Transit On Demand.
• 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.
• 31.08.2009 Second switch installed.