History of NIX

The first version of "NIX" was established in March 1993, and powered up on Tuesday March 30th. The interconnect was at this point a piece of thin coax, and the first customers each connected to this coax cable with a Cisco IGS router.

The first companies at NIX were:

• Uninett (IGS connected via ethernet to their AGS located at USIT)
• TelePost Communications (IGS connected via fiber to their router at Forskningsparken)
• EUnet (IGS connected via fiber to their router at Forskningsparken)

A while later (around 1994) the coax was replaced by a SMC TigerSwitch, and the following companies were connected:

• Tele2
• Oslonett