Sylvie LaPerrière of Google Elected to AMS-IX Board

AMSTERDAM, November 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

AMS-IX Association chooses Google's interconnection expert to be part of the AMS-IX Board

Members of the Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) Association have appointed Sylvie LaPerrière, Program Manager Network Content Distribution at Google, as the newest Executive Board member during the Community Meeting of the 21^st of November held in Amsterdam. She is the first woman ever to be part of the AMS-IX board, and this means the first steps have been taken towards gender balance on executive level, which is especially challenging in this technical oriented industry. Sylvie succeeds Reinart Wellinkvoorde of Vodafone who has served his maximum of two terms. It will be decided later who of the Board members takes over Reinart's role as vice-chair/secretary.

The peering and interconnection world, in which AMS-IX plays an important role, is very familiar to Sylvie. She is part of Google's global interconnection team as a strategic negotiator managing the network edge and content delivery programs. In her former jobs at organisations like Tata Communications and Teleglobe she has gained much experience in developing peering partnerships and negotiating commercial agreements with telecom and Internet operators worldwide.

"Sylvie's long history in the global Internet community makes her a valuable addition to the AMS-IX Executive Board", says Job Witteman, CEO of the AMS-IX Company. "The Board can make good use of a peering and interconnection professional like Sylvie in making the right decisions for the strategy and mission of AMS-IX and its further development."

"I'm delighted that the AMS-IX Association trust me worthy to serve as a member on the Board," comments Sylvie. "It's great to be an important part of an organisation that build its reputation on strong engineering, operational stability and commercial user friendliness. With my understanding of the Internet ecosystem and my first-hand knowledge of peering and commercial arrangements I can help AMS-IX moving in the right direction and retain its position as the world's leading Internet exchange."

"I'm thrilled about the appointment of Sylvie and the opportunity to work with her", says Christian Kaufmann, chairman of the AMS-IX Board. "As the first female AMS-IX board member she contributes to its diversity. Also she brings along a lot of experience, because of her working history at both Tier 1 networks and CDNs".

About AMS-IX

AMS-IX - Amsterdam Internet Exchange - is a neutral and independent Internet Exchange based in Amsterdam - The Netherlands since the early 1990's. AMS-IX interconnects more than 530 IP networks, making it the largest Internet Exchange in the world. The traffic peak of the interconnected networks is more than 2 Terabit per second. The AMS-IX platform provides a professional, high quality, non-blocking peering service for all types of IP traffic, be it regular IP data such as email or web content, to also video/TV and voice. AMS-IX additionally hosts the first mobile peering point worldwide, the Global GPRS Roaming Exchange (GRX) and the first interconnection of IPX networks (Inter-IPX). AMS-IX deploys two Internet Exchanges abroad - AMS-IX Hong Kong in the Asia Pacific region and CAR-IX, soon to be AMS-IX Caribbean on Curacao. http://www.ams-ix.net

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