It’s Official, I’m Not the Only Political Anorak in Ireland

INEX, Ireland’s Neutral Internet Exchange Point, saw a new Irish Internet traffic record of just under 14Gbps today coinciding with both Enda Kenny’s nomination and the announcement of the new ministers.

It’s nice to know I’m not the only anorak!

Thoughts, ramblings and rants of a husband, father, network engineer, sysadmin, coder, company owner, employer, accounting geek, sci fi fan, political anorak, impatient grump...

I live in Dublin, Ireland with my wonderful wife and darling daughter.

Co-founder of Island Bridge Networks - a company specialising in internet infrastructure providing mission critical network engineering, system administration, VoIP and development services to the ISP market.

Outsourced IXP expert, management team and operations team with INEX, the internet peering point for the island of Ireland. Project manager and lead developer of IXP Manager, a free and open source platform powering over 200 IXPs around the world. IXP advocacy and consultant in both commerical and pro bono capacities.

Creator of a SaaS service bringing telecom and utility billing into the 21st century. Live with a number of telcos - see Island Bridge Billing Systems.

Expert PHP programmer, trainer, interviewer and consultant. Creator of many PHP applications - see the projects page.

Likes to talk - see my previous talks and presentations.

Provides an outsourced CTO resource and other consultancy via Open Solutions (including to INEX above).

B.Sc. (Hons) Computing and Mathematics 2001, NUI, Galway. Currently in Chartered Accountants Ireland's ACA program, FAE level. Member of the Irish Computer Society (MICS). Chartered IT Professional (CITP) in the specialist area of solution development and implementation.

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