Attendees:
Randy Epstein – Treasurer and Secretary
Michael Costello – Chair
Michael Still – Vice Chair
Graham Paul Wooden
Savvas Bout
Not in attendance:
Meeting commenced at 3:11pm Eastern.
Michael Costello moved to accept the minutes from the April meeting, Randy seconded, and the motion passed. Savvas abstained.
Michael Costello presented his redlines for the Corporate Bylaws, and the board discussed the changes. Four Bylaw amendments were put to a vote, Michael Still seconded, and the amendments passed. Randy, as Corporate Secretary, will certify the vote and post to the website.
Randy provided a financial update. Bank balance is quite healthy. Collections are pretty much up to date with a few stragglers like last month. Only one past 30 days and that one should be in within the next few days. Nothing of concern. The last Arista payment
for the switches in Atlanta have been paid. Still waiting on an invoice for the switches in Miami. That should arrive in a month to be paid by the start of Q3. One of the past due members from last year was served, and that case is pending in the court. No updates on the other yet. There’s another member we may have to file against as well. We’ll see. It’s a small amount. The 990 is ready to file with the IRS. The board has reviewed it and no vote is needed. Randy will sign and have the CPA submit.
Randy provided a sales update. Lots of activity, including a very large upgrade order that was just signed and provisioned. A discussion was had about adding more switch redundancy in Atlanta. We will look at options. Randy noted that there are now 36 400G member ports, which is a huge jump from the 3 less than a year ago.
Randy noted that the Digital Realty Miami contract is still in the works and should be resolved shortly.
Randy provided a technical update. He swapped out the switch in EdgeConneX Miami with a 32D4, to support a recent 400G member port upgrade there. Backbone links were upgraded as well. Randy reported that he and Michael Still have been adding backbone capacity in Atlanta as we revisit each site. There are more pending over the next few weeks. We’re making good use out of the DWDM gear at all the sites.
Randy and Savvas discussed potentially putting a switch in his cage at Equinix to support some of his customers connecting to FL-IX. This would be considered a new node. We have a spare available for this project. Will discuss in the future.
The board approved the Smartoptics maintenance renewal for 1 year in the amount of $11,322. This was already budgeted for the year. Next year we’ll revisit with a longer renewal when we work on the multi-year Arista renewal.
A discussion was had regarding an MUA that Randy provided to the board for review. This will be used for a couple of new products that will be introduced at a later date. The board liked the language, so Randy will clean it up and send for a final review in the next month or two.
The board then had a discussion on the EOR agreement with Vensure to handle payroll moving forward. The board liked the proposal, and asked next steps. Randy explained the process. An electronic vote will be held in the very near future on this subject.
Lastly, Randy provided an update from Greg regarding his presentations at both Apricot and GPF. He said there was some interest at Apricot, but way more at GPF, which makes sense due to the regions the meetings were held in. A discussion was had regarding Layer 3 services which will be discussed at a later date once we have a chance to put together some proposals.
Michael Costello moved to adjourn, Michael Still seconded. Meeting adjourned at 3:58pm Eastern.