30 minutes
Starting an Exchange in a nutshell. What you should know before you decide to start an exchange.  Also, what you can do to grow your smaller exchange into a larger one. Presenter: Bill Woodcock. PCH

30 minutes (or less)
Updates
EURO-IX update - Kurt Eric Lindqvist

The Federal GigaPOP and the Ottawa Internet Exchange - Confessions of a Siamese Twin -- Presenter: William F. Maton Sotomayor

IX.PR - Internet Exchange Puerto Rico, "In Peer We Trust" -- Presenter: Mehmet Akcin

DE-CIX Internet Exchange Frankfurt/Germany - "Your Gateway to Central and Eastern Europe" - Speaker: Frank Orlowski

30 minutes
Discussion Points

Exchange Point Tools
   -Network Monitoring and Alerts
   -VLAN management
   -Auditing
Hardware wishlists
Reporting and Measurement

About the Moderators
Joe Abley is Network Architect at Afilias, a DNS registry company. He was previously an engineer at ISC, responsible for ISC's network, and still helps out as a volunteer. Before joining ISC, he chased packets at MFN/AboveNet and various Internet companies in New Zealand. Joe is involved in organising and presenting at operator meetings and workshops in the Asia Pacific and Africa, and is an active participant in the IETF. He holds a BA (Hons) in Physical and Computer Science, having narrowly avoided failure at the University of Cambridge whilst young and foolish.

Celeste Anderson is the Manager for several projects at the University of Southern California including the Los Nettos Regional Network and USC Co-location (external). She manages both the Pacific Wave and CIIX internet exchange nodes in California on behalf of the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC). She has been involved with peering exchanges since the formation of the LAAP with MFS' MAE-LA in 1996 and networking since joining USC's Information Sciences Institute back in 1987 and the formation of Los Nettos in 1988.

Euro-IX Update
DE-CIX Internet Exchange
IX.PR
Ottawa IX
IXP in a Nutshell