(L-R): Yves Schaaf – Claude Demuth – Marco Houwen – Carlo Richartz – Peter Sodermans – Didier Wasilewski;

Last week, LU-CIX ASBL held its Annual General Meeting and elected a new Board of directors; these meetings were hosted by Security Kade in Lëtzebuerg (SMILE) which leveraged the opportunity to present their new offices, 16 boulevard d’Avranches in Luxembourg City, and to draw attention to, for the numerous decision-makers present, on its cyber-attack simulation game, Room#42.

Just before the General Meeting started, Claude Demuth, LU-CIX Secretary, highlighted the most recent evolutions operated at LU-CIX. He pointed out the fact that 8 new members joined LU-CIX ASBL in the last year, growing the effectives up to the record number of 72 companies now members of LU-CIX. As always, the last LU-CIX ASBL members were given the opportunity to introduce themselves and present their company to the audience. Important technical changes also happened over the year with a new Point of Presence at European Data Hub, the LuxConnect data center at Bissen was included in the ring infrastructure, POST Luxembourg upgraded its connexion with 2 x 100 GE and LuxNetwork upgraded to a 100 GE. With its renewed backbone and all the efforts here above, LU-CIX has reached traffic records during the last few months, representing twice as much as last year’s average traffic, with peaks over 134 Gbps.

Right after the General Meeting, where several LU-CIX ASBL Board of directors members were re-elected, the newly constituted Board of directors assigned the responsibilities as follows: Marco Houwen, re-elected as Chairman; Didier Wasilewski and Peter Sodermans, elected as Vice-Chairmen; Claude Demuth, re-elected as Secretary; Didier Wasilewski, re-elected as Treasurer; Carlo Richartz, member; Gilles Mulheims, member; Yannick Doyen, member; Yves Schaaf, member.
 
The next big LU-CIX meeting will be on 13 & 14 November with its recognised annual event, the Luxembourg Internet Days to be held at the Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce in Luxembourg-Kirchberg. The two hot topics that will be discussed will be “Network Security and Monitoring” and “Cloud Security”. The event will be accessible to any IT decision maker under registration and approval only.