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+{{< image width="16em" float="left" src="/assets/logo/render-400px.png" alt="IPng Networks logo" >}}
+
+**IPng** -- a common abbreviation for _Internet Protocol next generation_. 
+The only promises you'll find here are those that we can keep. We are a small
+group of professionals who know a bit about IPv4 and IPv6 routing, physical
+and virtual machine hosting.
+We're also proud to be connected to the industry both physically, in terms of
+software defined networking, hardware and software companies, and socially, to
+the Swiss and European networking community.
+
+Rather than dazzle you with pictures of clouds, grandiose projections of our
+"global IP backbone", and other claims that small businesses make to appear
+larger than they are, we're happy to show what we know, what we own, and how we
+can help you accomplish your goals if you want to work with us.
+
+***Keywords: SDN, WDM, IP, Network Design and Consultancy, Hosting, and
+Colocation.***
+
+We are proud of our network and the services we operate, because they allow us
+to provide predictable and reliable performance. We maintain and grow the
+network judiciously and with the utmost of care, using a combination of physical
+(dark fiber, WDM), carrier ethernet services, and uplink diversity and
+redundancy. We implement service best practice configuration techniques, latest
+software defined networking and of course competent hardware and strong partners
+to complement our services for larger requests for hosting, cloud computing and
+networking reach.
+
+# How can we help you?
+
+Please take a look at what we have [in our service offering](/s/services/). From
+time to time we also opine, take a look at our [articles](/s/articles/), and if you
+are curious, or if you'd like to work with us on a project, please [reach out](/s/contact/)!
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+IPng is more than just a company. We operate a privately owned collection of
+hosting software and network services. As such, we can make decisions quickly.
+The roots of IPng go all the way back to the 90s, when IPv6 was called the
+_next generation internet protocol_, or _IPng_ for short.
+
+Rather than dazzle you with pictures of clouds, grandiose projections of our
+"global IP backbone", and other claims that small businesses make to appear
+larger than they are, we're happy to show what we know, what we own, and how we
+can help you accomplish your goals if you want to work with us.
+
+Our mission is to make networking and hosting services available to our
+customers, partners and users with a flexible yet uncompromising quality.
+
+## Our story
+
+As most companies, it started with an opportunity. We got our hands on a
+physical location which had a raised floor at 60m2 and a significant power
+connection of 3x200A, and a metro fiber connection at 10Gig. We asked ourselves
+'what would it take to turn this into a colo?' and the rest is history. Thanks
+to our partners who benefit from this infrastructure as well, making this first
+small colocation site was not only interesting, but also very rewarding.
+
+The networking and service provider industry is quite small and well organized
+into _Network Operator Groups_, so we work under the assumption that everybody
+knows everybody. We'd definitely like to pitch in and share what we have built,
+both the physical bits but also the narrative.
+
+## Our Founder
+
+We have been operating autonomous systems and corporate networks for decades.
+In Switzerland, we incorporated in early 2021 into a limited liability company.
+
+**Pim van Pelt** -
+[PBVP1-RIPE](https://apps.db.ripe.net/db-web-ui/query?searchtext=pbvp1-ripe&rflag=true&source=RIPE&bflag=false)
+started his career as a network engineer in the Netherlands, where he worked
+for Intouch, Freeler, and BIT. He helped raise awareness for IPv6, for example
+by launching it at AMS-IX back in 2001. He also operated
+[SixXS](https://www.sixxs.net/), a global IPv6 tunnel broker, from 2001 through
+to its sunset in 2017. Since 2006, Pim works as a Distinguished SRE at Google
+in Zurich, Switzerland. In his free time, he goes [Geocaching](https://geocaching.com),
+contributes to [open source](https://github.com/pimvanpelt) projects, and flies
+model helicopters.
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+At IPng, we understand that teams are built with more than one player. We try
+to think out of the box, and have an extensive technical understanding of the
+ISP industry and the experience to know when we can solve problems or when we
+need to ask for help to solve problems in any of your hosting and network
+needs. Why don't you use IPng to:
+
+* Host directly physical machines or virtual machines at a competetive rate, or
+* Use our direct contacts to host a rack, a set of racks, or a cage in a
+  datacenter.
+* Provide internet access to your network, or
+* Connect you to best in class network providers of high pedigree for larger
+  needs.
+* Ask us a question or two about the things, companies and people we know, or
+* Connect you to other professionals who mitigate IT risks and advance your
+  business.
+
+{{< contact-box >}}
+
+As you can see, we are not necessarily posessive of our customer relationship.
+We're good at some things, are opinionated on how things ought to be, and have
+a sorting hat of contacts, partners and providers that can pitch in to solve
+problems. We can of course coordinate, redirect, or partner directly.
+
+**IPng Networks GmbH** \
+**Chamber**: CHE-290.311.610 \
+**E-Mail**: [info@ipng.ch](mailto:info+www@ipng.ch)
+
+**Languages**: Dutch, German, French, and **English** (preferred).
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+title: 'Services'
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+
+## Network 
+
+{{< image width="15em" float="right" src="/assets/dwdm.png" alt="DWDM spectrum" >}}
+
+Our network consists of routers and interconnections in two main sites in the
+Zurich metro: eShelter (NTT) in Ruemlang (next to the airport), and Interxion
+ZUR1 in Glattbrugg. These two locations are connected with dark fiber, and we
+have access to several local loop providers in both locations. For example, we
+can arrange connectivity to Colozueri, Equinix ZH4 and Equinix ZH5 directly,
+and using our partners (such as IP-Max, Init7, Openfactory), domestically and
+to most european cities.
+
+You can read more about our network in this [informative post]({% post_url 2021-02-27-network %}).
+
+### IP Transit
+
+We operate [[AS8298](https://as8298.peeringdb.com/)] which announces `AS-IPNG`
+for ourselves and our transit customers. We're pretty firmly connected in and
+around Zurich, with a 10Gbit link to SwissIX, CommunityIX and CH-IX. We have
+a diverse set of transit providers which give us good reach to the world,
+including via Cogent AS174, Hurricane Electric AS6939, and for strong european
+presence, we receive transit from OpenFactory AS58299, Meerfarbig AS34549, and
+IP-Max AS25091.
+
+Gaining access to this wealth of IPv4 and IPv6 coverage is as easy as finding
+an L2 connection to one of our points of presence, establishing a BGP session
+to us, and announcing your netblock(s). We'll take it from there!
+
+You can read more about our BGP capabilities in this [informative post]({% post_url 2021-02-27-network %}).
+
+### Local Loop Ethernet
+
+Apropos, getting onto the internet is pretty easy if you are in a commercial
+colocation facility. Of course, any internet provider will offer various
+quality IPv4 and IPv6 connections with or without a static IP address. However
+getting from your house to the datacenter is often the most complicated and
+expensive project. At IPng, we had this challenge too -- and considering
+we solved it for ourselves, we can certainly also solve it for you! With our
+residential last-mile ISP collaboration (for example, ConnectionPoint, Init7,
+Solnet, and Swisscom BBCS), L2 services directly to your residence or office
+become easily possible.
+
+## Colocation
+
+We operate a private colocation facility in Zurich Albisrieden. The facility
+has 3x200A of power and about 60m2 of floor space. Hosting one or several
+machines, including Layer2 connectivity either to your own home, or to the
+main internet hubs of Zurich, are easily accomplished in our colocation
+facility. If more space is needed, we are regulars in most all Swiss carrier
+housing facilities, and can help broker a deal that is tailored to your
+needs.
+
+You can read more about how we built our own colocation from scratch in
+this [informative post]({% post_url 2022-02-24-colo %}).
+
+## Project Design / Execution
+
+{{< image width="15em" float="right" src="/assets/pdu19.png" alt="19 inch PDU" >}}
+
+We design things, both logical and physical. Be it two dimensional or three
+dimensional, as life long tinkerers, we have a fair bit of experience in
+mechanical and electrical engineering. Of course, as a network business,
+designing and deploying autonomous systems and networks of any size is our home
+turf. Also fundamentally understanding how a network should perform, be it
+throughput, bandwidth, latency or jitter and packet loss: we've seen it all,
+from ADSL lines to 300km DWDM spans.
+
+For some good examples, take a look at these case studies:
+* [Fiber7 on LiteXchange]({% post_url 2016-10-07-fiber7-litexchange %})
+* [SixXS Sunset]({% post_url 2017-03-01-sixxs-sunset %})
+* [Coloclue Loadtesting]({% post_url 2021-02-27-coloclue-loadtest %})