MICE Parting Thoughts
Written on February 18, 2013 – 2:53 pm | by Jay Hanke |My tenure on the MICE Steering Committee is coming to a rapid close. On Wednesday I will vacate my seat due to very reasonable term-limits for at least a year. Thankfully, a number of very qualified candidates are peacefully, at least so far, contending for the open seat. Looking back, it seems recent that Steve [...]
MICE Legal Docs
Written on October 3, 2012 – 9:52 am | by Jay Hanke |Here are the initial legal docs giving the steering committee power to operate the exchange. http://mankatonetworks.com/MICE/MICE-Legal-Info.zip
MICE UG 7 Speakers Announced
Written on September 5, 2012 – 12:48 pm | by Jay Hanke |William Hoffman and Diane Wells will be speaking about broadband deployment in Minnesota and the Connect Minnesota project. William Hoffman, III currently serves as State Program Manager for Connect Minnesota. In this role, Mr. Hoffman provides management of Connect Minnesota’s efforts with Minnesota public and private sector partners; including supporting the work of the Governor’s Broadband Task Force and [...]
MICE UG 7
Written on August 9, 2012 – 5:09 pm | by Jay Hanke |We’re making rapid progress at MICE. This is a critical meeting as we are hoping to perhaps ratify our member control agreement and boot someone off the steering committee. Our meeting will be at 3 PM October 3rd, 2012 AD in the 511 Cafeteria. 511 11th Ave S Minneapolis, MN Park in the “dome” lot [...]
Mice 5k GE port 250 Member Dues Model
Written on July 23, 2012 – 9:53 pm | by Jay Hanke |MICEportFeesModel-v2 This is a model for the “jay’s third proposal” Members each pay $250 to be connected to MICE, paid by everyone with an IP, paid members get voting rights. $5000 setup charge on 10GE ports on main switch, no setup charge for existing port
MICE Port Fees Model
Written on July 23, 2012 – 12:53 pm | by Jay Hanke |Attached is a link to a basic excel sheet analyzing options for port fees on MICE. MICEportFeesModel-v1
MICE June Optical Promotion
Written on June 8, 2012 – 5:10 pm | by Jay Hanke |Mankato Networks is offering 10 packs of 1000baseLX 1310nm optics for $780 with free shipping. For every 10 pack we sell we will donate one SFP to the Midwest Internet Cooperative Exchange. The optics are MSA compliant and designed for single mode fiber cable and will carry up to 10 km. They also can be [...]
Check out the MICE article!
Written on June 16, 2011 – 10:16 am | by Jay Hanke |Tech.mn did a little write up on the MICE exchange. http://tech.mn/news/2011/06/15/midwest-internet-cooperative-exchange-mice/ I just got back from the Denver NANOG and people are starting to know about MICE. We’re really not that far away from becoming a major regional exchange point. We need some more local eyeballs and content! We’ve went from 0 to 2 Gb/s in [...]
Kudos ipHouse for serving up a heaping plate of stats v6 style!
Written on May 21, 2011 – 7:26 pm | by Jay Hanke |C:UsersJayTV>ping stats.micemn.net Pinging stats.micemn.net [2001:4980:0:1000::133] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 2001:4980:0:1000::133: time=87ms Reply from 2001:4980:0:1000::133: time=89ms Reply from 2001:4980:0:1000::133: time=58ms Reply from 2001:4980:0:1000::133: time=62ms Ping statistics for 2001:4980:0:1000::133: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 58ms, Maximum = 89ms, [...]