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54 lines
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title: 'About'
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date: 2024-07-28
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name: "About"
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IPng is more than just a company. We operate a privately owned collection of
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hosting software and network services. As such, we can make decisions quickly.
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The roots of IPng go all the way back to the 90s, when IPv6 was called the
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_next generation internet protocol_, or _IPng_ for short.
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Rather than dazzle you with pictures of clouds, grandiose projections of our
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"global IP backbone", and other claims that small businesses make to appear
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larger than they are, we're happy to show what we know, what we own, and how we
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can help you accomplish your goals if you want to work with us.
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Our mission is to make networking and hosting services available to our
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customers, partners and users with a flexible yet uncompromising quality.
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## Our story
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As most companies, it started with an opportunity. We got our hands on a
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physical location which had a raised floor at 60m2 and a significant power
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connection of 3x200A, and a metro fiber connection at 10Gig. We asked ourselves
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'what would it take to turn this into a colo?' and the rest is history. Thanks
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to our partners who benefit from this infrastructure as well, making this first
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small colocation site was not only interesting, but also very rewarding.
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The networking and service provider industry is quite small and well organized
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into _Network Operator Groups_, so we work under the assumption that everybody
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knows everybody. We'd definitely like to pitch in and share what we have built,
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both the physical bits but also the narrative.
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## Our Founder
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We have been operating autonomous systems and corporate networks for decades.
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In Switzerland, we incorporated in early 2021 into a limited liability company.
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**Pim van Pelt** -
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[PBVP1-RIPE](https://apps.db.ripe.net/db-web-ui/query?searchtext=pbvp1-ripe&rflag=true&source=RIPE&bflag=false)
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started his career as a network engineer in the Netherlands, where he worked
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for Intouch, Freeler, and BIT. He helped raise awareness for IPv6, for example
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by launching it at AMS-IX back in 2001. He also operated
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[SixXS](https://www.sixxs.net/), a global IPv6 tunnel broker, from 2001 through
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to its sunset in 2017. Since 2006, Pim works as a Distinguished SRE at Google
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in Zurich, Switzerland. In his free time, he goes [Geocaching](https://geocaching.com),
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contributes to [open source](https://github.com/pimvanpelt) projects, and flies
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model helicopters.
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