News

• launch of www.muntinternet.nl

  14/05/2009

  We are happy to introduce the new design of our website to you, for now only in Dutch, but soon the english version will be launced also. This will replace the current website. If you are dutch, please visit www.muntinternet.nl

• IPv6 enabled! MuntInternet = IPv6 ready

  22/12/2008

  We are delighted to announce that IPv6 is enabled on our network. We have enabled Ipv6 both on the AMS-ix and transit connections. A /32 was assigned by RIPE to us and we will allow our customers to request for subranges in that range. We are now IPv6 ready!! Please contact your accountmanager for more information.

• office address change

  21/10/2008

  as of today our new address is : Rypwei 5 8511 AM Goïngarijp The Netherlands telephone and fax numbers will not change !

• 10Gbit routers Introduction to the network

  31/01/2008

  Dear Customer,
  
  We are very pleased to inform you that the ordered 10Gbit routers are finally arriving!
  
  This is a very important step for our company, since this upgrade will give us almost unlimited expansion possibilities(10gbit, ipv6,mpls,vpn).
  
  Juniper introduced the MX960 in quarter 1 2007, and got our attention right away. We already use Juniper products in our network (m20's) and they have proven to be very reliable. Together with the famous Junos software it's an almost unbeatable combination.
  
  Together with the introduction of the Juniper MX960 we'll introduce the Foundry MLX platform to our network. These also have proven themselves at, for instance, the AMS-ix. We are very familiar with the Foundry product lines (we currently use fourth generation BigIrons and ServerIrons GTS 450's) which made the new MLX to a logical choice.
  
  Together with this router upgrade we'll upgrade our 1Gbit AMS-ix connection to 10gbit and shortly after that we'll upgrade our 1Gbit NTT/Verio to 10Gbit.
  
  We expect to start implementation friday 1 februari 2008.
  Preperations already started, and we don't expect large impact for the network, other then a couple of large route updates.
  
  This upgrade will replace the routers at EUnetworks , we decided to phase-out the Foundry Bigirons at EUnetworks because they can't meet the expectations of today.
  Customers connected to these BigIrons (Internally known as globalvoice1 and globalvoice2) will be moved to new 1000BaseT/10-Gbit HP switches. For customers with a VRRP connection to both routers this should be a hitless move. For customers with only one uplink this will cause a 5 to 20 seconds interruption (the cable needs to be physically moved to another patch-panel)
  The single-connected customers will get a VRRP connection shortly after the phase-out of the BigIrons. VRRP will give them more protection against network/cable/port failure and our noc more freedom to implement software upgrades to the routers.
  
  We are very happy to announce this and gradually move our network into the future.
  
  If you have any questions please contact Jaap Harmsma,
  
  With Kind regards,
  
  Jeroen Wouda

• introduction ServerIrons 450 to the network

  28/09/2007

  Today MuntInternet introduced ServerIrons to the network. Foundry's ServerIron family of application delivery and traffic management switches is the industry leader in high availability, acceleration, security and scalability for business‐critical IP, Web and VoIP applications. The ServerIron provides a total solution for server load balancing, application (Layer 7) switching, server farm and application security, SSL acceleration, compression, and multi‐site redundancy. The ServerIron products are almost exclusively used by over 2,000 of the world's most demanding organizations. MuntInternet will use a dual ServerIron 450 setup with management 7 (WSM7 module). Both units will be equipped with dual power supplies for optimized uptime. Customers will be connected to both load balancers. If one of the ServerIron 450’s will have a problem the other one will take over immediately.

• added smokeping and looking glass tools

  07/03/2007

  Since we have nothing to hide about our network we opened a public smokeping script. You, as a customer or potential customer can see now with your own eyes that we have a packetloss-free network and that we have very low latency to places all over the world.
  
  We also added a looking glass to let you check our connections and peers. Also you can do traceroutes from our network to other networks.
  
  check out: http://smokeping.muntinternet.net/ or
  http://lookingglass.muntinternet.net/

• mirror server online

  06/03/2007

  MuntInternet is using a lot of open-source software. That is why we like to give the community something back. We have setup a mirror server that at the moment is mirroring:

  • kernel.org
  • gentoo.org
  • slackware.com
  • mozilla.org
  
  
  we'll add a couple more projects soon !

• Patched webmail function

  04/12/2006

  We have patched our webmail.muntinternet.net online webmail service against the recently discovered problems reported by Webwereld

• Globalvoice becomes EUnetworks

  24/07/2006

  Global Voice Announces Branding of European Operations to “eunetworks”

• Promo-ware page added

  14/06/2006

  We have added a special page that contains a selection of our promotion buttons and banners.

• Globalvoice datacenter

  14/06/2006

  We are happy to announce that we are able to host customers in a new datacenter. The GlobalVoice datacenter is one of the last datacenters in Amsterdam that are able to furfill the current and future needs in terms of electricity, cooling and rackspace.
  
  
  
  If you want to see more of the new location, would like a quote or more information, please e-mail to sales@muntinternet.net or phone: +31 513 41 66 16

• AMS-IX Outages

  08/12/2005

  Yesterday (07-12-2005) the Amsterdam Internet Exchange experienced some major problems. Because of this some of our clients experienced slow connections or fluctuating connections. AMS-IX statement: Investigations so far learned that a high cpu load situation on several switches in the platform caused loss of VSRP keep-alives between the core switches; this caused the platform to become unstable. We are not yet clear on the actual cause of the high cpu load. We will schedule some lab work to further investigate this to find the root cause of the issues.
  
  
  
  After about 2 hours the problem was fixed.

• PX Publishing chose for MuntInternet

  27/11/2005

  PX Publishing and MuntInternet are proud to present a multiple year contract between both parties. PX Publishing will be using one of our well known cluster solutions containing over 15 high speed servers. We will also design and setup a 12TB backup solution for PX Publishing and other clients.

• Globalswitch PoP

  18/11/2005

  Last week we succesfully installed some new core equipment at Globalswitch Amsterdam. We can now deliver ip-transit from this location. Our core equipment at Globalswitch will supply bandwidth for our ADSL clients.

• I-med Internet Services

  10/09/2005

  MuntInternet will be the host of I-med Internet solutions websites for the upcomming years. We will supply I-med with full management hosting of a custom made cluster solution. Part of I-med is the well known website spele.nl. This website attracks more then 1 million unique visitors every day.

• Redbus PoP

  01/09/2005

  We opened a new Point of Presence at Redbus Interhouse, Amsterdam. We will attach 1Gbit of Level3 and 2Gbit ams-ix to our core router at Redbus. More news will be released soon on this website.

• SPF added to dns-records

  15/09/2005

  We started using the SPF technique for all our domains. SPF stands for "Sender Policy Framework". For more information about SPF you can visit the global SPF website here.

• Blue Cactus Media

  01/08/2005

  As of today we will host one of the biggest, and multi award winning website of Australie. Blue Catus Media will host their websites on a custom made MuntInternet cluster solution that contains about 12 dual Xeon servers.