"As you all know, 2020 will have been a pivotal year as we have validated the merger of Rezopole with France-IX, and we are now France-IX Lyon.

This choice has been carefully considered throughout the year 2020, with you, our members, the Rezopole team and the Board of Directors.

This choice will allow us to pursue and develop our know-how around the Internet network, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and throughout France.

I would like to thank in this last "Annual Review" all those who believed in the Rezopole project and supported us despite the difficulties:

• Thanks to the founders of Rezopole, all pioneers and passionate about the Internet!
• Thanks to the members of the office (volunteers) who spent many evenings all these years to help us grow,
• Thank you to the team in Lyon, who kept Rezopole running 24/7,
• Thanks to the public authorities for their indispensable financial support,
• And thank you to all of you, our members, for whom we have created Rezopole in order to develop the industry.

See you at a future event."

Philippe Duby,

Former President of Rezopole

Vice President of France-IX

 Read the report

 "This text is written in Covid-19 confinement, which shows the enormous impact of the Internet in our daily lives, and its importance in helping us to continue our activities in telework or tele-education.

Exchange nodes such as those managed by Rezopole have a very important role in these periods of increased traffic. The first 100 Gbps client was set up on LyonIX at the very beginning of the Covid-19 crisis.

Looking back at 2019, the following highlights, detailed in the report, are worth noting:

• Migration of the core network to a new, latest-generation 100 Gb infrastructure,
• Securing links (redundancy) and BGP routing,
• Opening of new POPs related to their potential for new members,
• Reinforcement of the interconnection with the Swiss IXPs (CIXP & SwissIX),
• Survey on Telecom needs in the Alps with local players,
• First 24/7 BGP outsourcing services.

The IXP market is transforming towards increased service provision, and Rezopole will continue its transformation in 2020 to adapt to this evolution.

Thank you for your interest in our activities, I hope you enjoy reading. »

Philippe Duby,

President of the Rezopole Association

 Read the report

The session on November 21st was full! The meeting is scheduled with our network expert for this morning dedicated to improving Internet exchanges thanks to LyonIX infrastructures.

As a reminder, the program:

9h00 – 9h30 : Welcome over a coffee

9h30 – 10h30 : Presentation of LyonIX :

                         - Economic and technical advantages

                         - Connection solutions

                         - Questions and Answers

10h30 – 11h30 : Visit to a LyonIX Point of Presence

For those who couldn't register, don't panic!

Another session is already scheduled for December 13rd.

This completely free event allows you to discover the many advantages, for your structure, of being connected to the IXP/NAP of Lyon.

See you on May 17th, 2018 at the premises of Rezopole (16, rue de la Thibaudière - 69007 Lyon).

More details on this morning here.

 

Registration opens next week!

We invite you to discover LyonIX, the IXP/NAP of Lyon on December 13th, from 9:30 am.

This completely free event, called IXPloration, allows you to discover all the advantages to be connected on our network infrastructures.

Meet us at the Rezopole office: 16, rue de la Thibaudière - 69007 LYON

Attention: limited space.

Every time you visit a web page or send an email, data is being sent and received through an intricate cable system that stretches around the globe. Since the 1850s, we've been laying cables across oceans to become better connected. Today, there are hundreds of thousands of miles of fiber optic cables constantly transmitting data between nations.

Find here the animated map, made by Business Insider, which reveals the 550,000 miles of cable hidden under the ocean that power the Internet!

Pierre Col, Marketing Director at Antidot, a software publisher specialised in search engines and information access solutions, analyses and comments on the Internet infrastructure evolution.

Here is his article on the telecommunications infrastructure entirely in optic fiber and 3G / 4G Wi-Fi indoor antennas giving to the Lyon Congress Centre an exceptional quality of telecommunication services. Enjoy your reading!

The Ardèche and Drôme digital territory plan was unanimously voted by both departmental assemblies on june 24th for Ardèche and July 1st for Drôme.

The digital territory plan (SDTAN) is composed of two parts: an infrastructure part in which Rezopole is mentioned (p70) and a "use and services" part. And, they reflect concretly the departments political vision as regards upcoming actions to achieve for our digital territory plan.

To download pdf format document, clic here. 

In 2013, many new DataCenter have been created in Lyon. The Greater Lyon experienced a shortage a few years ago but is now in a position to insure the future. Besides public DataCenters (Education, Research, or local government services) and DataCenters dedicated to a single company, hosting commercial DataCenters are booming in Lyon and its region.

It is worth mentioning that the set back was important: till 2010, there were only 5 DataCenters that may host racks. Now nearly twenty players can offer hosting servers. Rezopole has produced a map of these centers. And several projects are still under construction near the capital of saplings. Lyon city has caught, up in less than 10 years, its delay in this field. An interesting detail: all DataCenters recently created (Maxnod, DCforDATA, FMI, CFI, One-System, SynAAps) joined Lyonix from the beginning of their activities !

In September 2013, Rezopole will organise its annual Advisory Board. On September, 9, members, financial supporters and other players will have a meeting in the association offices, to exchange strategic advice and recommendations for the Rezopole activity.