AMS-IX Organisation

The Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) is one of the fastest growing Internet Exchanges. We believe this is due to our unique profile and comprehensive portfolio of services.

AMS-IX is a non-profit, neutral and independent, professional exchange. The beginnings of the exchange can be traced back to the early 1990's. The name AMS-IX has been used since 1994. On the 29th of December 1997 AMS-IX was established as an Association in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, operating under Dutch Law.

Download one of the AMS-IX Annual Reports below or contact marketing at ams-ix dot net to request a hardcopy.

Annual Report 2007 in PDF format

Annual Report 2006 in PDF format

Annual Report 2005 in PDF format

Annual Report 2004 in PDF format

Annual Report 2003 in PDF format

• The AMS-IX Association

  In 1997 about twenty Internet Service Providers and Telecommunication Carriers formed the AMS-IX Association. At the moment there are over 280 members of the Association, the largest number of exchange connected parties worldwide. The member profile is increasingly international, in contrast to most other exchanges AMS-IX has a majority of international members (a 30/70 % distribution of national versus international). Of those international parties most have a European background, but we do have quite some North American and Asia/Pacific based networks connected as well.

  • The Executive Board

    The Executive Board of the Association forms the linking pin within the organization. They are responsible for managing the activities of the Association and are responsible for control of proper management of the AMS-IX Company and as such also act as the Supervisory board of the BV.. Current composition of the Executive Board:
    

    Name	Organisation	Exec member since
    Mark van der Laan	Vodafone	24 Sep 2003 (Chairman)
    Jan Paul Dekker	RTL Interactive	24 Sep 2003
    Wilfried Dudink	Deutsche Telekom	23 Nov 2005
    Simon Hania	XS4ALL	22 Nov 2006
    Christian Kaufmann	TeliaSonera	21 Nov 2007

    
    

  • The AMS-IX company

    AMS-IX B.V., which manages the daily operational duties for AMS-IX. AMS-IX B.V. acts as a first point of contact for the members. Further AMS-IX B.V. formulates strategy, handles the externa; relations, manages contracts with the colocation/housing partners, the hardware suppliers etc. The Chief Executive Officer of AMS-IX B.V. is Mr. Job Witteman. More details on the team can be found at the page www.ams-ix.net/about/team.html.
    AMS-IX B.V. can be contacted by e-mail: info at ams-ix dot net or by phone: +31 (20) 305 89 99.

    
    
  • A Network Operations Centre (NOC)

    The AMS-IX NOC is part of the AMS-IX B.V, and operates the technical duties for the Exchange. For more information, see under the item Technical.
    
    

  How are decisions made at AMS-IX?

  The majority of decisions at AMS-IX are made by the AMS-IX BV within the boundaries of the Association and/or Board approved annual and long term plans.

  The annual plan and budget, as well as items outside of the scope relating to management control, are approved by the Executive Board in Board Meetings. In these meetings the members of the executive board and AMS-IX B.V. management (CEO, CTO and CMO) are present. The Board meetings act as both the Associations Executive Board meetings as well as the Companies Supervisory Board meetings. Board elections are held annually during the member/shareholder meeting for the 5 board seats. The election is on a rolling basis, each year one or more seats have to be (re)filled.

  A General Meeting, in which all members have a seat, is held twice a year. Members are informed of strategic changes which are part of the AMS-IX companies strategy. The strategy is detailed in an annually updated Long Term Strategic plan. The strategic plan has to be approved by the membership by a majority vote and is the main way to influence the decision making process. The other main voting item at the GM is the Board election. All members at AMS-IX have equal voting rights (on ASN/legal entity basis).

  A Technical Meeting convenes twice per year in conjunction with the General meeting and advises both the General Meeting and the Executive Board on technical aspects.
  
  

  Commercial activities

  The AMS-IX company carries out several marketing activities, the team can be contacted by e-mail: marketing at ams-ix dot net or by phone: +31 (20) 305 89 99. For Member Relations purposes, general requests, orders and support the company has a team that can be contacted through: info at ams-ix dot net or by phone: +31 (20) 305 89 99. For the order process please see Connect to AMS-IX.

  In case you require one-stop-shop sales assistance including transport and/or colocation, AMS-IX also works with partners. Partners can resell the complete AMS-IX portfolio and will provide first line support and billing services. For more information, view the list of AMS-IX partners.