London Internet Exchange

London Internet Exchange
Point Update

Keith Mitchell

NANOG18 Meeting, San Jose

Recent New Members

BBC

C&W Europe

Concert

InterRoute

IS Internet

Mannesman

RML
Roka
Saunalahti
Telenor Nextel
Viag

Gigabit Ethernet

Deployed inter-switch 98Q4

Deployed inter-site 99Q1

Available to members:

pilot 99Q4

service 00Q1 - 8 members

needed !

Poor availability and support of Cisco GigEth router interfaces has hindered member take-up

LINX Switches

Packet Engines

2 x PowerRail-5200

1 x PowerRail-2200

1 x PowerRail-1000

Extreme

1 x Black Diamond

3 x Summit 48

Multicast Exchange Switch

PR-1000

http://www2.linx.net/stats/

Expansion Sites

Primary sites at:

Telehouse, TeleCity

Major co-lo provider growth in London Docklands & City area

Dark fibre Gigabit MAN with WDM

By early March:

Redbus Interhouse

Telehouse Eastern extension

By end Q1:

Guardian DR, InterXion, IX Europe

Peering Facilitation

Help reduce legal bills !

Template Peering Agreement

http://www.linx.net/joininfo/peering/agreement-v4.html

Sample inter-provider contract

Non-mandatory

Dispute Resolution Procedure

http://www.linx.net/joininfo/dispute_resolution.html

e.g. peering

Voluntary, non-binding

Other Infrastructure

Route Servers

Pilot Multicast Exchange

~10 participants

Bid to host gTLD server for NSI

3 Cesium NTP Stratum 1 atomic clocks

"Greenwich e-Time" (really UTC)

http://www.GeT-time.org