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Up Front

LINX CEO John Souter comments on the recent announcement that Juniper Networks are to be LINXs primary switch equipment vendor.

Inside Stories
World IPv6 Day and the IPv6 World Congress are just two of the events which have promoted the new protocol. Patrick Gilmore comments on a big month for IPv6.

Reflecting on the New LINX Network Architecture

Membership

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The members covered in this issue include NetBenefit and Cerberus Networks. We also look at the geographical spread of the LINX membership in Asia.

LINX Network
In a special two page feature we reveal the plans for the new LINX network architecture from Juniper. Tony West provides analysis of the latest developments.

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Industry News

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New reports on Intellectual Property and peering agreements are among the topics covered in our detailed industry news section.

Events
Our industry events section previews the sixth European Peering Forum in Hungary and the new venue for the upcoming LINX74 meeting later this summer.

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Staff News

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New LINX CTO, Derek Cobb, is profiled on our LINX staff page. Also featured is new IT recruit Ararat Smutkochorn and LINXs work with IPv6.

Up Front
Juniper agreement demonstrates LINXs commitment to a more resilient network architecture
There can be little doubt that the big LINX story this year has been the announcement I made at LINX73 that we have decided to base our architectural refresh on products and services from Juniper Networks. During 2010, and after extensive consultation with members, we decided that we should move from our current ring-based topology to a VPLS architecture. LINX is the first large Internet exchange to decide to work with Juniper, but perhaps we will see more exchanges consider using VPLS in the future. Juniper were very enthusiastic about working with us, and clearly see this an opportunity to showcase their products in another demanding environment. The architecture refresh programme is now well underway and we have appointed Tony West as Programme Manager to ensure the success of all aspects of the work. You can find out John Souter LINX CEO more about Tony on page seven of this issue, together with an update on the latest developments and a high-level timeline for the programme. We have much to do during this summer and autumn, but we are being well supported by both Juniper and Telindus (their reseller). Our Juniper resident engineer arrives shortly, and we are holding weekly project review meetings with Telindus. The first hardware has already arrived and is being staged at Telindus.

Jeremy Orbell
HotLINX Editor

Editorial
Network architecture refresh programme now underway
May I welcome you all to issue 26 of the LINX membership magazine, HotLINX. This years Internet industry news has been dominated by the passing of the remaining IPv4 addresses to the five regional registries, and the push towards the implementation of the new IPv6 protocol. For those that have been prepared, and in some cases prepared for many years, this is no longer news but just plain common sense. The issue now is ensuring that those who have been late to the party are now able to become fully part of it. The past few months have seen a number of events geared towards IPv6 with two in particular - World IPv6 Day and the World IPv6 Congress - both featured in-depth in HotLINX26. World IPv6 Day was an exercise in industry co-operation witnessing key large and smaller scale networks around the world trial the protocol on the same day. The fact that the day itself passed largely without incident demonstrated that a significant part of the industry has been quietly getting on with the job of simply making the system work. How representative this is of the industry as a whole only time will tell. Closer to home there is potentially something else of even greater significance to the LINX membership. This is the announcement of LINXs new network architecture programme which John Souter has already covered elsewhere on this page. Two further pages on the subject have been included to explain the current position and future plans for the transition process. In addition there are profiles of LINX CTO Derek Cobb, and Tony West, LINXs new Architecture Refresh Programme Manager, who will both be playing a major part in ensuring the change goes without a hitch. There are many more great stories and articles in this issue which we hope you will enjoy. As ever, if you have any comments or content ideas we would very much like to hear from you. Jeremy Orbell, HotLINX editor

Future Goals
Our goal is to build an even more resilient and capable exchange that satisfies the needs of the membership, and this will require effort, imagination and incredible attention to detail. As always, we want to keep our members informed, and to keep talking to you about developments. So please watch the email lists and social media feeds for details of how you can keep up to date with progress, starting with a member conference call scheduled for later in July. If you have any specific questions, please feel free to contact us in the usual ways.

As well as the high-end MX range that we will be utilising during the first stages of deployment, Juniper have shown us their next generation products - which are attractive to us as we continue to grow.

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Inside Stories
IPv6 Events
IPv6 World Congress backs the ideals of World IPv6 Day
The World IPv6 Congress was held at the Thistle Marble Arch Hotel in London on the 14th and 15th of June. Its close proximity to World IPv6 Day ensured that delegates were still digesting the results of the trial and what would that mean for their Comment businesses. LINX was one of the endorsing associations at the Congress event which attracted over 200 attendees to its conference and exhibition. The detailed and varied agenda covered a multitude of topics including how IPv6 affects differing operators and markets around the world. On day one the content stream covered strategic directions for IPv6 deployment, a panel discussion dedicated to World IPv6 Day itself, plus sessions focussed on content providers and operators sharing their IPv4 and IPv6 networking experiences. The second day of the event looked at government and regulatory leadership on IPv6, transition to IPv6 and techniques for deployment, and the practical issues that need to be considered.

World IPv6 Day

International Networks Collaborate in Ground-Breaking Event
World IPv6 Day was an event organised by ISOC, the Internet Society, to test IPv6 across international networks. Leading websites and ISPs such as Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Akamai and Limelight Networks were all directly involved along with another 1000 Internet organisations who had all signed up to take part. In the trial, each one enabled IPv6 on their main services for 24 hours - from 00:00 UTC on Wednesday 8 June - to highlight any potential problems with the protocol. As the tests were made under controlled conditions, it would become that much simpler to pick up any issues and act upon them. Comment Patrick Gilmore, LINX Vice Chairman and Akamais Network Architect, provided a preview for World IPv6 Day at LINX72 back in February. Patrick said, World IPv6 Day is not about turning off IPv4. The goal is to motivate organisations across the industry - whether they are an ISP, hardware maker, operating system vendor or web company - to prepare their services for IPv6. Its necessary purely because it ensures that when the time finally does come, there will be a successful transition to IPv6 once IPv4 addresses finally do run out. but there were still rare occurrences of issues with some participating websites during the test. However, despite this, World IPv6 Day was considered a qualified success. Bigger problems may arise when IPv6 goes mainstream as many networks are currently not set up for IPv4 and IPv6 to coexist. For now, the uptake of IPv6 is still expected to be slow but its time is coming. Part of the problem is that IPv6 needs to be enabled end-to-end which means there is little advantage in making the switch alone - this is merely delaying adoption further. It has been stated that it could be five years before we see even 5% of Internet traffic passed over IPv6 but even that would be a stark improvement on the current position. Procera, a deep packet inspection vendor, recently published a report claiming that IPv6 accounts for just 0.2% of all traffic. There is clearly some way to go. The collaboratory process of World IPv6 Day is still expected to lay the groundwork for larger scale IPv6 adoption. Over the course of the 24hour test, it was proved that major websites are already well-positioned for the move to a global IPv6-enabled Internet and this can only lead to its continued exponential growth. Information For further information on World IPv6 Day please visit: www.worldipv6day.org

The second annual IPv6 World Congress is already being advertised to take place on 12-13 June 2012. This time the event is expected to attract over 250 attendees, 40+ operator case studies, 70+ speakers and over 20 exhibitors. Information To find out more about the IPv6 World Congress, and the 2012 event, please visit: www.ipv6event.com

As technology and systems can vary greatly from area to area it was vital that every continent was involved in the process. Overall the vast majority of users were able to access services as normal

Member News NetBenefit and World IPv6 Day

Managed hosting provider, NetBenefit, was one of hundreds of websites and Internet service providers around the world participating in World IPv6 day on June 8 the first global trial of the new IPv6 Internet protocol, organised by the Internet Society. Darren Wiltshire, Head of Technical Engineering at NetBenefit, has been preparing for IPv6 for several months, ensuring that both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses can co-exist within the NetBenefit hosting environment. Comment Although IPv6 represents a whole new world of opportunities, there are still a lot of devices, websites and networks that rely on IPv4 and we will continue to support both standards, though customers can now start to experiment with IPv6 hosting says Wiltshire. According to a recent Cisco report, its expected that there will be 15 billion devices needing Internet connectivity by 2015 two for every person on the planet. When the 32 bit IPv4 standard was introduced in 1980, it was not envisaged that the estimated 4.3 billion addresses available would ever run out. IPv6s 128 bit addressing system theoretically allows for 670 quadrillion IP addresses, which will sustain growth demands for IP addresses for future years. Comment Wiltshire continued: Due to the large, almost infinite, number of IPv6 addresses, NetBenefit will now offer our customers a larger pool of IP number choices, such as an IP address for every Internet connected device, removing the need for network address translations. With the growing proliferation of Internet connectivity on devices from cameras to mobile phones, we are confident that IPv6 will satisfy any new emerging technical demands. As a result of extensive planning and project delivery, both IPv6 and IPv4 addresses can now co-exist within the NetBenefit hosting environment. Although IPv6 represents a whole new world of opportunities, there are still a lot of devices, websites and networks that rely on IPv4 and will continue to do so, so customer support for both is essential. Its customers can now start to experiment with IPv6 hosting on NetBenefits managed hosting platform. NetBenefit reviewed all of its systems and infrastructure from provisioning and billing to network and router configurations in order to cope with the IPv6 extended addressing system. NetBenefits technical team completed thorough training and were all fully conversant in the new IPv6 protocol in time for World IPv6 Day. Information You can learn more about NetBenefit by visiting their website: www.netbenefit.com

LINX Member Case Studies

LINX recently published two case studies, in print and online formats, promoting the benefits of networks joining LINX. Italian ISP E4A, and Euroweb Romania, are the first two members to be featured, with each organisation focussing on the advantages particular to them. These include decreased transit spend as well accreditation within the Internet industry. Comment Our network is now completely different to when we joined and has improved dramatically. We may well have remained a very limited ISP had we not taken the leap to join LINX. In fact, I hate to say it, but we might not have even still existed if we hadnt joined. Ricky Losselli, Founder and CEO of E4A Both studies have been used as handouts at various events, and have been well received. Documents of this type are a useful method for highlighting the benefits of membership and explaining how the concept of Internet exchanges could boost their businesses. LINX are keen to develop their case study library. If you think you have benefited from joining LINX, and would like to share your experiences then please get in touch with us via marketing@linx.net. Alternatively, If you would like to view and download the existing case studies, please visit www.linx.net/publicity/case-studies.

The Benefits of Joining LINX

This case study was produced to demonstrate how E4A benefitted from becoming a member of LINX. The company originally joined in the summer of 2008 and has seen substantial growth ever since. This document highlights the issues that E4A initially had to overcome and the successes they have subsequently achieved.

Joining LINX from Central & Eastern Europe

This case study was first used at the Capacity Balkans event in Bucharest in April 2011. It describes how joining LINX helped Euroweb Romania meet some of their core business objectives including reducing expenditure, improving their service and their business reputation.

Member News
Joining LINX
By Erik Carlson, Operations Director at Cerberus Networks
As a cloud service provider and ISP to businesses across the UK, maintaining high quality, low latency connectivity whilst managing our cost base is vital. Consequently, peering is an important consideration when managing our traffic. While we already had peering arrangements elsewhere, there were many big networks that we had limited access to. LINX was the best option for us to resolve this and to ensure that our traffic was routed as efficiently as possible. The joining process could not have been made easier. We received prompt answers to our questions, paperwork was exchanged quickly and the engineers were extremely knowledgeable and helpful. When our second connection to LINX hit some delays on our side we were checked on regularly and offered assistance when we needed it. After connection, our biggest concern was to set up peering quickly and we were really pleased that peering with the route collector alone provided access to so many prefixes. After speaking at LINX73, the rate of peering increased dramatically. Even before I had left the podium the emails were coming in. LINX73 was our first LINX meeting, and we were made to feel really welcome. The presentations were informative and interesting, and it was extremely useful to be able to discuss common issues face to face with other members. LINX provide us a professional and valuable solution, and I would strongly recommend them. Information You can learn more about Cerberus Networks by visiting: www.cerberusnetworks.co.uk.

LINX Membership - Asia Pacific

One of the major strengths of the LINX membership base is the extent of its geographic reach. Beyond the traditionally strong UK, European and US markets, LINX has seen a remarkable increase in the number of nations represented at the exchange over the years. In recent times several networks from Africa and the Middle East have joined plus others from as far away as Oceania. For the basis of this article however, we are going to look at one area in particular - the Asia Pacific region. This inspiration for this piece was the recent connection of Chinese network, Pacnet. Pacnet were formed in 2008 following the merger of Asia Netcom and Pacific Internet, two of the largest telecommunications service providers in the region. This area of the globe has hugely diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds. That said, the desire to be connected, whether as a business like Pacnet or as an individual, continues to grow here like anywhere else in the world. The following list features the 10 different countries and 12 LINX members who are based around Asia Pacific region.

The Far East

China Pacnet, PCCW Global Indonesia Biznet Networks Malaysia Telekom Malaysia Berhad South Korea Korea Telecom, SK Broadband Company Taiwan ChungHwa Telecom Thailand True Internet Gateway Vietnam Digicom - VTC The increasing demand for bandwidth is clearly a key motivator for many Asian networks wanting to peer and pass traffic. This applies not just in their own area, but with the leading exchanges in Europe and the Americas. While this doesnt tell the whole story its clear that the benefits of peering over transit are increasingly attractive to the business models of these organisations.

Central Asia
Bhutan Bhutan Telecom India Bharti Airtel Pakistan Pakistan Telecommunication Company

Network Architecture

Juniper Networks:
The New Network, LINXs New Network
Connect everything, empower everyone was the vision of Juniper Networks founder and CTO, Pradeep Sindhu, when the company began in 1996. This statement is arguably more relevant today than ever before, as business and consumer users alike put the Internet, applications and anywhere access at the heart of their daily lives. Were also confident that our vision resonates very strongly with LINX, whose own tagline is working for the Internet. Reliable, consistent and secure connectivity to data and applications is what the membership is all about. Juniper has recently been chosen by LINX to create a new network infrastructure consistent with our shared vision. Juniper Networks is all about disruptive innovation, having developed and brought to market some of the industrys most ground-breaking, disruptive innovations across many aspects of networking technology. Because we invest more in R&D as a percentage of revenue than any of our industry peers, we believe this focus on meaningful innovation enables us to transform the experience and the economics of the network for our customers, and for their customers. The legacy network approach - proprietary, siloed, complex - simply doesnt cut it in todays alwayson world where ubiquitous data and applications are accessed via any device. Juniper offers the new network: open, simplified, virtualized, automated and secure; designed for productivity and empowerment, enabled to control misuse and unlawful access.

A Short History
To understand the strength and validity of our position today, Juniper watchers need to appreciate the companys roots and its journey to the present day. The company was founded 15 years ago to give service providers an alternative approach to core routing - the fundamental building block of the network. Junipers differentiated approach was our modular use of software and custom silicon, brought together to create a flexible, high-performance routing platform designed to be programmed and upgraded while in service, and to provide a longterm migration path with cost-effective CAPEX and OPEX. Junipers software, the Junos operating system, remains at the heart of our strategy today. The code ran on those first routers, the revolutionary M40 (many of which remain in production worldwide), and still serves as the integrated platform for our routers, switches and security devices. It is maintained on a single release train, with a regular, predictable upgrade cadence that enables our customers to plan and manage their networks very effectively. Running Junos OS improves the reliability, performance, and security of existing applications. It automates network operations on a streamlined system, allowing more time to focus on new applications and services. And its scalable both up and down providing a consistent, reliable, stable system for developers and operators. This, in turn, delivers a more cost-effective solution for our customers. Junos has developed into a family of on-the-box, beyond the box and client-based development tools and environments that are open to third party developers, too.

High-Performance Culture
15 years on, with a lot of organic development complemented by thoughtful acquisitions, the company has grown into a multi-billion dollar revenue organisation trading on the NYSE exchange, with more than 9,000 employees and 47 offices globally. We continue to bring systems and software together through innovation and engineering excellence to create solutions that solve our customers most pressing networking challenges, in line with their commercial objectives and market imperatives. Our initial focus on core networks for service providers has expanded in several dimensions today, our business focus encompasses service providers (fixed and mobile, plus content providers; in total the worlds top 130 SPs are among our customer base), and enterprise customers, including 96 of the Global Fortune 100, as well as hundreds of federal, state and local government agencies and higher education organisations throughout the world. Combining these two sectors, Junipers customers are organisations for whom the network is a critical success factor in their business, and who demand high performance, reliability, security, simplicity and efficiency from their infrastructure. We believe this is a good fit for LINX, its members and your shared business aspirations! Information Further information on Juniper Networks and their products and services can be obtained from the companys website: www.juniper.net

Network Architecture
LINX Architecture Refresh Programme update
By Tony West
LINX Architecture Refresh Programme Manager As Programme Manager I have joined LINX to assist the team in delivering the complex introduction of the new Juniper network. Working in this dynamic environment is proving to be very rewarding and it has been great to start defining in detail all the key milestones and deliverables with the help and support of all the staff. The governance process has now been implemented which includes a steering board; weekly progress meetings and detailed action register against each internal work stream. A base timeline has been established which covers continued business as usual activities, the new MRV optical platform deployment and the Juniper network delivery. A high level view of the timeline milestones is below. The LINX team continue to drive the detailed space, power and fibre plans in order to ensure smooth transition to the new network. Training has commenced to ensure we acquire all the additional technical knowledge to manage both the new optical and data networks effectively. The MRV Optical platform is also moving forward rapidly with the equipment required to start building the core element already being shipped from the manufacturer. Initial staging and testing has begun with site deployment and base builds ongoing. These are set to be completed on schedule. Juniper is currently in the low-level design phase. Work continues closely with both Juniper and Telindus to agree detailed configurations and establish test and acceptance schedules. The new switches should be with us by middle of July and staging has been planned at Telindus facility in Camberley. The plan is to fully test fail-over, traffic flows and interoperability with Brocade within the Telindus testing facility before deploying equipment to site. The new Juniper core is still on schedule to be built and accepted into service by the end of August. This is a critical step to enable the Juniper edge build and member migrations to start in September. System developments have already started to ensure we can bring both MRV and Juniper devices on to our existing management platform. This work will ensure alarms and statistics are captured and the support teams can monitor the platform performance and diagnose any service impacting events.

Tony West
LINX Architecture Refresh Programme Manager
LINXs new Programme Manager, Tony West, has been brought in to oversee the timely implementation of the new Juniper architecture. Tony has 20 years of IT and Telecoms experience, initially as a Systems Engineer working on Ministry of Defence and NHS programmes, before moving into Telecoms with NTL. In this role he ran the design, plan and build functions for what was the second biggest IP network in the UK. His recent engagements include a position as Head of IT at BBC Broadcast where he was responsible for delivery of over 60 live channels and the implementation of a complex Operational Support model for BT Operate. Comment Tony told HotLINX, As a technical programme manager I am experienced in working across complex environments and bringing teams together to deliver key business objectives. This new position is an exciting one and Im delighted to be involved in the implementation of such an important part of LINXs infrastructure.

Brocade LAN
The Brocade network will be taken out of service and decommissioned by the end of this year, once all member migrations have been successfully completed and a period of stable operation achieved on the new platform. If you require any further information on the network architecture refresh programme I can be contacted via tonyw@linx.net.

Architecture Refresh Programme Timeline

Activity MRV Optical Core Built MRV Optical Core Accepted into Service MRV Optical Edge Accepted into Service Juniper Low Level Design, Configuration and Functional Testing Juniper Core Staging Juniper Core Accepted into Service Juniper Edge Staging Juniper to Brocade Lan Interconnect Juniper Edge Accepted into Service and Member Migrations 28 Days Stable Running Programme Closure May-11 Jun-11 Jul-11 Aug-11 Sep-11 Oct-11 Nov-11 Dec-11

Public Affairs
Hargreaves Review releases findings in new Intellectual Property Report
and innovation. The IPO would be charged with investigating the economic impact of IP, and empowered to demand access to the data necessary for making independent, evidence-based policy recommendations. The IPO would also be able to issue statutory opinions, which the courts would be required to take into account, and to make official recommendations to the competition authorities. If the government has the courage to implement these proposals it would be a significant step towards a modernised intellectual property system, but it is likely to face resistance from conservative copyright incumbents.

Malcolm Hutty
Head of Public Affairs

In Brief
The Latest Stories on the LINX Public Affairs Website New breach notification requirements under the revised EU Electronic Communications Framework
Europe, Ofcom, Regulatory Framework
The revised EU Electronic Communications Framework came into force in May, bringing with it new security breach notification requirements for ISPs. The Framework requires ISPs to notify the national regulator of any security breach that has had a significant impact on the operation of networks or services. Ofcom has set the lowest possible threshold for significant impact, requiring ISPs to notify the regulator of all security breaches, regardless of scale or impact. However, networks will only have to notify customers if they believe that the breach will cause them harm or infringe their privacy. The revised Framework grants Ofcom a number of additional powers and duties. These include new duties relating to network security and resilience, additional enforcement powers and new powers in relation to traffic management and network neutrality.

May saw the publication of Professor Ian Hargreaves long-awaited report into Intellectual Property and Growth. The report was commissioned by Prime Minister David Cameron with a brief to refocus intellectual property on its contribution to economic development. Although Hargreaves disappointed some by arguing against the wholesale adoption of a USstyle Fair Use defence, he is certainly no apologist for the status quo. Unflinching in his criticisms of governments past and present, he derides the flawed evidence base which informs existing policy as consisting chiefly of lobbynomics - selfserving statistics created by a group of incumbent businesses - rather than credible scientific research. If the Hargreaves Report is more critical than its predecessors, it is also more constructive. The report recommends a number of important reforms, including legalising CD and DVD ripping for personal use, licensing orphan works, and allowing the use of copyrighted material in parody. He also argues that the UK should fully implement the copyright exceptions permitted by European law and work with EU Member States to create new exceptions. Hargreaves is also critical of the ever expanding scope of enforcement measures such as the Digital Economy Act, which was granted on the promise of the development of new business models that have yet to appear. He proposes that rightsholder access to new and stricter enforcement should be made conditional on participation in a Digital Rights Exchange that would enable entrepreneurial use of copyright works. Less radical is a proposal to equip the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) with an overarching legal mandate to promote economic growth

UN pushes Human Rights on the Internet

Human rights on the Internet have shot up the international agenda in recent months, with two high profile reports calling for nations to respect human rights online and off. In a report to the UN General Assembly, the Special Rapporteur to the UN Human Rights Council denounced laws which sanction disconnection from the Internet as a punishment for unlawful file-sharing. Such laws are disproportionate, said the Rapporteur, and violate the right to freedom of expression enshrined in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. He also warned against imposing liabilities on Internet intermediaries, which are inclined to err on the side of safety by over-censoring potentially illegal content. Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt later led 40 countries in endorsing the reports recommendations. The Council of Europe also raised the issue, producing a set of draft Internet Governance Principles - a first step towards an international soft-law framework for Internet freedoms. The principles emphasised the importance of fundamental rights and multi-stakeholder governance, while seeking to elevate architectural features such as the end-to-end principle to the level of governance principles. Information To read more regulatory news please visit the LINX Public Affairs blog: https://publicaffairs.linx.net/news

Commission evaluates Data Retention

Data Retention, Europe
The European Commission has published its Evaluation Report on the Data Retention Directive. The Commission recommends that the EU should continue to support a data retention requirement, pointing out that most Member States do not believe that targeted data preservation would be sufficient for law enforcement purposes. However, the Commission report does make a number of recommendations that industry will welcome. On the subject of costs, it recognises that small and medium sized operators are disproportionately affected by the costs of complying with the Directive, while larger, multinational operators suffer from inconsistent cost recovery provisions between Member States. The report also appears to accept that the direction of travel should be to limit the Directive and regulate retention more tightly, rather than expand the scope of the imposition on operators. The Commissions conclusions will be important in a forthcoming amendment review of the Directive.

Industry News
Valued Added Benefits for LINX Members from Renesys
We at Renesys are always looking for ways that we can provide value to the service provider community, and our partnership with LINX is a key part of our outreach efforts. Here are highlights from a couple of the benefits available to you as LINX members right now

RIPE NCC
Monitoring and Measuring the Effects on World IPv6 Day
The World IPv6 Day, a global event in which organisations around the world offered their content over IPv6 for a 24-hour period, took place on 8 June 2011. The goal was to motivate organisations across the industry - Internet service providers, hardware makers, operating system vendors and web companies - to prepare their services for IPv6 to ensure a successful transition as IPv4 addresses run out. The RIPE NCC provided a range of measurement activities as part of monitoring efforts to assess the results of World IPv6 Day. These included: Measuring connectivity to World IPv6 Day participants - the IPv6 Connectivity Chart tested the visibility of all World IPv6 Day participants and other sites that are already dual-stacked and presented the information on a single web page. This was used to find out if there were problems accessing these websites, both before and during World IPv6 Day. Testing connectivity and performance to World IPv6 Day participants using the RIPE NCC Test Traffic Measurements infrastructure, CAIDAs Ark platform and other volunteering measurement nodes. Monitoring performance of the 6to4 transitioning mechanism in comparison to native IPv6 in collaboration with BBN. Please visit: http://labs.ripe.net/ Members/rbarnes/world-ipv6-dayasymmetric-6to4-measurements to find out more. Information More info on these measurements can be found on the RIPE Labs website (http://labs.ripe.net), at the RIPE NCC World IPv6 Day website (http://v6day.ripe.net) and at the World IPv6 Day Connectivity Chart (http://ipv6eyechart.ripe.net).

Market Intelligence v6
Beta testers wanted! Were planning a new release of our competitive research and sales prospecting tool - Market Intelligence, with new market analytics for IPv6. A beta should be available late summer and were looking for a few good testers. If you are a current user and are willing to provide feedback wed love to hear from you. Drop me a line - psimpson@renesys.com. Finally, Renesys is always looking for additional sources of data that bring us unique perspectives on the internet. We currently peer with many providers for the purpose of collecting BGP updates, and each peer helps us derive a more accurate picture. If you have an interesting perspective on the Internet we may ask you to peer with us, and well share with you a copy of our BGP routing analysis tool - Routing Intelligence. Renesys peers for the purposes of route collection only; we never advertise any routes, and do not send any traffic to peer networks. Contact us at peering@renesys.com for more information. The WhoPeers report and Renesys route collection and analysis will soon be available for members in the LINX website member area.

By Phil Simpson, Product Manager, Renesys

WhoPeers
In the next few months you will be able to see a new example of Renesys route collection and analysis in the LINX portal. We are developing a WhoPeers report that summarizes the differences between registered peering policies (as specified in RPSL records) and observed routing. Youll be able to view a list of exchange members and see the extent to which your peering policies agree with Renesys global view of the routing table. I suspect that youll be surprised at how often these disagree. A good opportunity to get those registrations updated!

Renesys is also looking for Beta testers for a new release of its research and sales prospecting tool Market Intelligence.

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Peering News
New Peering Agreements Report to be discussed at LINX74 Meeting
The results of a new survey focussing on the characteristics of Internet carrier interconnection agreements has just been published by associate LINX member, Packet Clearing House (PCH). The detailed report, written by Bill Woodcock and Vijay Adhikari, includes a great deal of relevant and useful information for members so LINX has scheduled a presentation to discuss the survey at the LINX74 meeting in August. Bijal Sanghani, a Solutions Engineer at Reliance Globalcom, has kindly agreed to host the talk on LINXs behalf. She has a wealth of industry experience and is currently PC at the UK Network Operators Forum (UKNOF) as well as a Working Group Chair for the RIPE NCC. Prior to this she held network and technical support engineering roles with LINX members Sohonet and FLAG Telecom, which later became Reliance Globalcom. Comment Talking about the survey and the upcoming presentation Bijal said, This report is the most comprehensive look at peering agreements weve ever had and the findings, Bijal Sanghani particularly on multiReliance Globalcom lateral peering, are absolutely fascinating. LINX and I certainly believe the data gathered deserves wider analysis which is why we are so keen to find out what will come out of the discussions at LINX74. The peering agreements surveys report was introduced as follows: Introduction The Internet, or network of networks, consists of 5,039 Internet Service Provider (ISP) or carrier networks, which are interconnected with one another in a sparse mesh. Each of the interconnecting links takes one of two forms: transit or peering. Transit agreements are commercial contracts in which, typically, a customer pays a service provider for access to the Internet; these agreements are most common at the edges of the Internet. Transit agreements have been widely studied and are not the subject of this report. Peering agreements the value-creation engine of the Internet are the carrier interconnection agreements that allow carriers to exchange traffic bound for one anothers customers; they are most common in the core of the Internet. This report examines and quantifies a few of the characteristics of Internet peering agreements. For each agreement PCH sought answers to the following three questions: Questions Is the agreement formalized in a written document, or is it a handshake agreement? Does the agreement have symmetric terms, or do the parties exchange different things? What is the country of governing law of the agreement? This was followed up with supplementary question asking if the agreement was bilateral or multilateral. In just over 1,000 cases, both parties to the same peering agreement responded to the PCH survey and almost every case both parties answered each of the three questions identically. This was believed to indicate that respondents fully understood the questions asked and were able answer accurately. The surveys findings will likely largely confirm LINX members understanding of the global peering environment, but certain results may be surprising in their degree, particularly the number of peering adjacencies that are implemented through multilateral peering agreements like the one offered by the LINX - www.linx.net/service/additional and the predominance of informal handshake agreements. The full PCH Peering Agreement report can be downloaded from the PCH website here: https://pch.net/resources/papers/peering-survey

Survey Background
Packet Clearing House analysed some 142,210 Internet carrier interconnection agreements in the preparation of this report. The data was collected over a six month period between October 2010 and March 2001 using a globally distributed survey of all regional Network Operators Groups. In all, in excess of 4,300 different ISP networks from 96 different countries provided feedback for the study and these accounted for approximately 86% of the worlds Internet carriers.

Packet Clearing Houses survey on Internet peering agreements has been well received in the industry. A presentation by Bijal Sanghani of Reliance Globalcom will discuss the reports findings and implications in detail at the LINX74 member meeting in August.

European Peering Forum

EPF6
Agenda announced for 6th European Peering Forum
As in 2010 this years peering forum will last for three days instead of the former two. Below is the provisional agenda for the event.

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Sunday 18 September
Registration opens Welcome reception at Spoon Caf

Monday 19 September
Registration Welcome Note Harald Summa, DE-CIX Moderator: Serge Radovcic, Euro-IX Keynote Presentation Speaker from the European Commission Content & Eyeball Presentations and Panel on Net Neutrality Mike Blanche, Google Falk van Bornsteadt, Deutsche Telecom Moderator: Frank Orlowski, DE-CIX Bilateral / Pre-scheduled Meetings Cocktail Reception at Minyon Bar

Hungary for Peering at the 6th Annual EPF event

Tuesday 20 September
The ideal Interconnection and Peering Environment Frank Orlowski, DE-CIX Hassan Al Naqbi, UAE-Exchange Topical LINX presentation John Souter PUE - The Planning Challenge and Digital Media & Gaming Trends - Interxion Topical AMS-IX Presentation Bilateral / Pre-scheduled Meetings Dinner at New York Boscolo

The sixth European Peering Forum will take place in Budapest, Hungary, between the 18th and 21st of September. The event, which was first held in Frankfurt in 2006, now attracts some 250 peering managers and other industry professionals. The event hosts; LINX, AMS-IX, DE-CIX and Netnod, are confident that EPF will be another successful event and are working hard to ensure that the entire event is beneficial for all delegates.

Venue
Situated on the banks of the river Danube, Budapest is one of Europes most beautiful cities. It is famous for its thermal springs and the Royal Palace which was used as the residence of Hungarian kings for over 700 years. Today it houses the Budapest Historical Museum, the Hungarian National Gallery and the National Library all under its roof. EPF6 will be held at the Intercontinental Budapest. When the weather allows the Corso terrace, on the Danube embankment, has stunning views over the Buda Hills. The fitness centre is opened 24 hours a day and gives you access to a modern gym and a relaxation area with saunas and steam rooms.

Agenda
Split over three days, the event will cover a range of topics designed spark debate amongst the delegates. As well as the expected informative presentations on peering developments there will be panel debates and tutorials. The side panel on this page has a basic overview of the agenda.

Wednesday 21 September
Introduction of new Peers DE-CIX next generation architecture Arnold Nipper, DEC-IX Topical NETNOD presentation VOIP-Exchange and Peering Presentations and Panel Moderator: Gerd Simon, DE-CIX Presentation on Traffic Management Anja Feldman, T-Labs RIPE tutorial - Routing Registry and Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) In addition to the organised meeting agenda, the popular meeting tool that allows delegates to schedule their own face-to-face meetings with other attendees will again be available. To facilitate these meetings the EPF organisers will provide separate bilateral meeting tables that can be booked through the meeting tool. You will receive a log-in for the separate meeting tool by registering for the event at: www.peering-forum.eu/registration

Accommodation
Event organisers have negotiated special rates for EPF attendees at the Intercontinental Budapest. Prices are 160 Euros per night including breakfast and Internet connectivity from the 18th till the 20th of September. To book at EPF rates follow this link listed in the Registration section below.

Networking Opportunities
A key part of the EPF experience is the chance to meet with peers and discuss new peering opportunities. There will be a number sessions that will make this possible including a welcome reception on the Sunday before EPF begins plus socials and dinners planned over the coming days. The main event dinner will take place on Tuesday evening at the luxury Boscolo New York Palace Hotel.

Registration
Registration to EPF6 opened at the end of June and places are filling up fast so sign up today. Registration

Sponsors
Lead sponsor for the event is Interxion, with Atrato Networks and Brocade filling the silver sponsor slots. Associate sponsors include Ancotel, Google, Telecity, Force10 and Equinix.

If you would like to attend this years EPF and take advantage of the special delegate rates and bilateral meeting tool, please visit www.peering-forum.eu/registration to register.

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LINX Meetings
LINX74
New venue and expanded agenda for Summer meeting
The LINX74 meeting is a LINX meeting with a difference. As you will see from our article on page 13, LINX are temporarily moving away from what has become its regular home at Londons Congress Centre, to a new venue in Windsor. While that article focuses on the why, this piece will look at the what of the events agenda.

LINX Council Elections: Edwin Punt (KPN), James Blessing (Limelight Networks), Grahame Davies (LINX Chairman), Alex Cruz Farmer (Nestsumo) and Steve Wilcox (IX Reach) all stood and took part in the election hustings.

LINX74 Agenda
After the welcome and round-the-room introductions, John Souter will provide his regular quarterly CEO update and LINX stats overview. Next up will be CTO, Derek Cobb, who will announce the latest developments regarding the network architecture refresh programme as part of his Engineering presentation.
Three of the presenters from the LINX73 AGM meeting in May: Dan Rees of Silver sponsors MRV Communications, Thomas Weible of flexOptix and Steve Groombridge of event Gold sponsor, Systems & Network Training

LINX73 AGM and Council Elections with new X Factor Technology

The 73rd member meeting and LINX council elections took place in May 2011 at The Congress Centre in London. It was a memorable meeting not least because of the introduction of a new electronic voting system fat the AGM. Each voting delegate was issued with a hand-held device that allowed instant push button decision making on AGM topics and the council election itself. The results of the LINX council voting are detailed below. Technician courses available from LINX73 Gold sponsor, Systems & Network Training. Presenter Steve Groombridge tested the audiences knowledge with a quick-fire quiz. The first day concluded with a preview of World IPv6 Day by Dave Freedman of Claranet.

The second part of day one will be passed over to LINX Head of Public Affairs, Malcolm Hutty, for the latest regulatory news before an eagerly anticipated discussion on the Extreme LAN completes day one. Day two will see the introduction of two separate presentation streams that will allow delegates the opportunity to decide whether to break out of the normal agenda and choose a talk in the adjoining Syndicate Room. This is a new innovation for LINX and will take place after Interxions sponsor presentation on Tuesday morning.

Day Two

(Tuesday 17 May)

Day One

(Monday 16 May)

Patrick Gilmore oversaw the first session, Getting the most from LINX membership. This was aimed primarily at new members and first timers to LINX meetings. This was followed by John Souters regular LINX stats update and Malcolm Huttys Public Affairs review. Ofcoms Tony Holmes was invited to speak as part of Malcolms session on the subject of DNSSEC deployment. Next up was Derek Cobb, LINXs new CTO, who provided a formal introduction as a prelude to his first Engineering update scheduled for day two. Thomas Weible of flexOptix then gave an interesting talk on Link Aggregation which preceded an overview of the LINX Internet

There was a strong focus on Engineering on the second day with a detailed network architecture update from Derek Cobb plus separate talks on IPv6 and Engineering Operations by Mike Hellers. Ben Hedges provided the Marketing & Business Development presentation which covered the new Member Relations team while Michael OReirdan spoke on Comcasts work on Botnet Detection. Dan Rees gave a presentation on behalf of Silver sponsor MRV Communications and John Souter provided his CEOs update. Finally, just before lunch, it was the eagerly awaited Council election hustings. The AGM featured motions on the annual accounts and a consultation on an amendment to the LINX MoU. Then followed the council election - after a hard fought contest, both Grahame Davies and Steve Wilcox were re-elected for another term.

Syndicate Room
The Syndicate Room will feature a short talk on LINX Member Relations and a new member introduction presentation by Ben Hedges. There will then be a series of lightning talks and a discussion on the PCH peering agreements survey hosted by Bijal Sanghani. A taster of the latter session can be found on page 10 of HotLINX.

Main Hall
In the main meeting room John Souter will again take to the stage, this time to give a detailed run down of the seven LINX associate members. David Freedman will then introduce a section dedicated to IPv6 ending with a panel session moderated by 6UKs Richard Yule. Further details on LINX74 can be found at www.linx.net/LINX74

Ben Hedges
Head of Marketing & Business Development

Industry Events

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Meet with LINX

Events to be Attended by LINX Representatives
LINX staff attend a number of industry events around the world every year. Please take a look at the list below to see where you can meet with LINX representatives over the coming months.

LINX74

15-16 August 2011 Windsor, United Kingdom

Attended by: LINX staff and Board

www.linx.net/LINX74
Web page will be now available

A Right Royal LINX Meeting

As LINX members will know, LINX hold four member meetings every year in the months of February, May, August and November. Traditionally these have been held in London with only occasional trips away from the capital. Since the first LINX meeting was held on the 5th of August 1994, only nine meetings have been held outside London and none since LINX33 in May 2001. On that occasion the Edouard VII Conference Centre in Paris was the venue. For LINX74 in August, LINX is heading out west to the Beaumont Estate near Windsor. In choosing the new venue for the Summer meeting LINX had one eye on the future with the London Olympics and Paralympics taking place in August 2012. LINXs standard meeting dates would mean LINX78 would be scheduled to take place in between the London Olympics and Paralympics when accommodation and venue prices are likely to be at a premium. For that reason LINX

LINX Heads to Windsor for LINX74

is planning to use the opportunity to change the standard format for its future Summer meetings which includes the way content is presented and even dates for the meetings themselves. The aim is to encourage even greater attendance and participation from the membership. One of the added benefits of LINX74 being staged at a new location is that allows the entire meeting, including social and delegate accommodation, all to be held under one roof. Sponsors so far confirmed are Interxion and MRV Communications with more expected to follow. The Congress Centre in Central London will continue to be LINXs preferred venue for standard meetings for the time being.. Registration Registration for LINX74 will opened on Wednesday 13 July. To find out more about the event and see the agenda please visit: www.linx.net/linx74

UKNOF20

6 September 2011 Bristol, United Kingdom

Attended by: LINX staff TBC

www.uknof.com

EPF6

19-21 September 2011 Budapest, Hungary

Attended by: John Souter, Ben Hedges, Megan Nisbet and Emuobor Dafimu

www.peering-forum.eu

PLNOG7

28-29 September 2011 Krakow, Poland

Attended by: Bartek Raszczyk

www.plnog.pl

Capacity Russia
3-4 October 2011 Moscow, Russia
Attended by: Jennifer Atherton and Katrina Readshaw

www.capacityconferences.com

NANOG53

9-12 October 2011 Loews, Philadelphia, USA

Attended by: John Souter

Events Round Up
It has been a busy time for LINX, both at home and abroad, as the exchange seeks to maintain and develop new peering opportunities for its members around the world. The importance LINX attaches to face-toface meetings at events such as RIPE, GPF and NANOG is well known, and it is trend that is set to continue. Added to this LINX has been attending more industry trade shows such as Capacity Balkans in Bucharest and ITW in Washington DC with more planned over the coming months.
Jennifer Atherton and Ben Hedges were at ITW to discuss peering opportunities with new potential LINX members

www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog53

Capacity North America

26-27 October 2011 Toronto, Canada
Attended by Ben Hedges

www.capacityconferences.com

RIPE63

31 October - 4 November 2011 Vienna, Austria

Attended by: LINX staff TBC

www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-63

The 19th UKNOF in Leeds was another recent opportunity to meet with members who are usually unable to attend the regular LINX meetings in London. A special lunch was arranged as part of LINXs continuing outreach program.

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Meeting Sponsors
edpnet
Connecting Russia and Europe with new DWDM fibre channel
Russian and European users can now exchange data at massive speeds of up to 6.4Tbps. Independent telecoms provider edpnet has deployed a new external and fully Comment redundant DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) channel between Saint-Petersburg and Stockholm, connecting Russia and Europe. This new connection, which enables speeds up to 6.4Tbps (160 waves x 40Gbps) between Russia, Europe and North America, is the next major milestone in edpnets expansion in Russia.

Open Cloud Networking from Force10

Datacentre owners and operators building large and small facilities are tasked with creating faster, more scalable datacentres while continually addressing the need for lower power and space consumption. Smarter devices, new applications and traffic patterns - moving from north/south to east/west traffic - are driving the need for new datacentre architectures. Force10 Networks Open Cloud Networking (OCN) framework, a new vision for cloud and conventional datacentres, represents a new and open way to build, scale and manage existing and next generation datacentres powered by a new family of centralised and distributed core switches, a new top-of-rack (ToR) switch and an extension to the open automation software that delivers powerful new capabilities for the next generation of datacentres. A key component of Force10s new OCN framework, the S-Series S7000 Open Cloud Switch which is a new type of ToR node that combines storage and application processing capabilities in a single non-blocking 2RU unit, it enables cloudin-a-rack capabilities and brings a new level of convergence and functionality to the top-of-rack. S7000 supports Data Center Bridging (DCB), Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), TRILL, User Port Stacking, and Virtual Link Trunking (VLT). Using the appliance module, users could perform a wide array of functions like load balancing, firewalling, packet sniffing, caching, etc. directly on the switch, eliminating the need for an additional external server for that function. A second key part of Force10s new OCN framework, the new Z-Series ZettaScale core switches, a generational technology leap in density and performance, they offer a choice between centralised and distributed core infrastructure.

Advantages
The biggest advantage of the new DWDM channel between Saint-Petersburg and Stockholm is that edpnet can now easily offer 10Gbps (STM-64, OC-192c, 10GigE WAN PHY, 10GigE LAN PHY) and 40Gbps wavelengths not only in strategic points of presence in Europe and North America, but also in Russia. For Russian and European end-users the new DWDM channel means much faster speeds to the main foreign hosting resources.

Deployment
The deployment of the DWDM channel took from December 2010 till March 2011 and was divided into two stages. The first stage was setting up fully equipped points of presence along the route from Stockholm to Helsinki. The second stage was extending this route from Helsinki to Saint-Petersburg. All operations were executed simultaneously by edpnets Russian and European network specialists, which resulted in a rapid completion of this project. In the future edpnet will expand its DWDM channel further towards central Russia. Information You can find out more about edpnets complete range of products and services by visiting their website at www.edpnet.com/en

The new Z9000 distributed core switch is available in one of the smallest, greenest, densest footprints with disruptive price/performance, ever introduced. The Z9000 with its 2.5 Tbps non-blocking switching capacity designed to meet the requirements for high density 10/40 GbE aggregation in a datacentre End of Row, or core network. The product can support 32 ports of 40 GbE or up to 128 ports of 10 GbE realised through breakout cables. All solutions support a full suite of Ethernet switching and Routing protocols in the hardened FTOS operating system to enable layer 2 or layer 3 network architectures. More information on Force 10 Networks can be found at: www.force10networks.com

The S7000 supports 36 ports of 1/10 GbE, 12 ports of converged Ethernet/Fibre Channel and 4 ports of 40 GbE. The 40 GbE ports can be realised as 4x10 GbE ports through breakout cables. The

Staff News
Recruitment
Information Technology Team Ararat Smutkochorn
Trainee Systems Administrator
Ararat Smutkochorn has joined LINX as a Trainee Systems Administrator. She graduated from The University of Essex in 2009, with a Masters Degree in Computer Network Security. After graduating, she became a system analyst at True Corporation, a dominant telecommunication company in Thailand, working on network traffic analysis based on IDS (Intrusion Detection Systems). Ararat had the responsibility here to identify and block malwares and suspicious traffic. Occasionally, she had the opportunity to assist the network engineers in their network configurations. After 6 months at True Corporation, Ararat moved to the UK and began her career at LINX in March 2011. Comment Ararat comments, LINX offers me a great opportunity to join a strong team and work in the core of the Internet network. I am training with an expert in Unix server development who guides me to work with the servers properly and neatly. Everyone at LINX works as a team and seeing my colleagues working in their area of expertise drives my enthusiasm to stay on top in this role.

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Derek Cobb In the Spotlight

LINXs New Chief Technical Officer Interviewed
Derek Cobb recently joined LINX as Chief Technical Officer. HotLINX caught up with Derek to ask about his career, his impressions of LINX and the future plans for the exchange. First of all can you tell us about your career to date in the telecoms industry? I began my career as a 16 year old apprentice at BT. This eventually led to me joining their International Division and then Cellnet before it became O2. At that time I was the head of the GSM Network Development Team which was a role I held for about four years. After 23 years with BT, I joined AT&T UK as Head of Capacity Management and Architecture, helping build their first wholly owned network outside of the US. I later spent eight years as Architecture Director at ntl and eventually Virgin Media. I was responsible for the strategy and development of all the network platforms within ntl. I left after completing the design and business case for integration of the ntl and Telewest networks into Virgin Media. I then returned to BT where I headed up their VoIP and contact centre build and spent the last two and a half years working on the London 2012 Olympics. Had I stayed I wouldve been one of the operations directors at games time but for the call asking if I would be interested in becoming LINX CTO. What are your initial impressions of LINX? Speaking as someone with my background the role appealed as an exciting opportunity and also a great honour. I was aware of the plans for the network architecture refresh but, even so, I probably didnt fully appreciate the intensity of work that would be needed right away! Its been a terrific learning curve. Im very impressed with the commitment of all the Engineering Team who have put in an awful lot of hard work under pretty trying circumstances. What do you see as Derek Cobb, the primary targets in LINX CTO the immediate future? The most important things to me are that we sustain the service we deliver to our members at the level of quality they expected from us and that we deliver the new Juniper LAN platform in a timely and efficient manner with minimal disruption to our members. Im a great advocate of teamwork and responsibility. I believe everybody in my team is responsible for delivering service to our members and managing the technology. We are all accountable to each other. We also need to maximise the input from our partners whether thats our vendors, our outsourced NOC or the membership. Something else I think is important is Engineerings relationship with the Marketing & Business Development team and IT. We have to ensure that what we are doing is communicated well, timely and accurately to the membership and getting feedback on that is a critically important thing to do. In the end I personally want to be visible and available to all the members. I want to make sure that what were doing is meeting their service needs and that we are performing to a level that is expected of us. With the secure perimeter in place, Bernd and Steve began testing on LINXs internal websites and this yielded some surprising results. Some users were seen to be switching between IPv4 and IPv6 and while the DNS configuration was RFC compliant, it became clear that simplifying it further would resolve the problem. Once the initial hurdles were overcome, the successful roll out of the remaining services was relatively straight-forward. Between April and June 2011 the following websites and services were enabled over IPv6: www.linx.net stats.linx.net ns0.linx.net smtp.linx.net sflow.linx.net publicaffairs.linx.net

Enabling IPv6 on the LINX Network

LINX recently undertook a project to make its member facing services and internal network compliant over IPv6. This was jointly run by Project Co-ordinator Bernd Marienfeldt and Steve Harrison who began by completing some in-depth analysis of LINX systems. In initiating this project Bernd and Steve first tested a series of code bases in the lab. They also entered into a firewall vendors beta program which helped them debug some of the issues that had to be overcome for LINX to proceed. Another problem was that a number of the standard features of IPv4 networking, like BGP and OSPF, were still not available for IPv6 in the firewalls software. Centrally managed host based firewalls, using ip6tables, were deployed across the entire LINX service platform. As stated, a major objective of the project was to deploy IPv6 over the various LINX office networks. With Bernd and Steve both being located in Peterborough, this location was chosen as the first to be enabled and this was achieved in late 2010. The deployment of IPv6 in the London office and other sites is now nearing completion.

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Membership News
New Members Connected
ASN: Country: Network: Policy: IPv4 Address: Website: Email: Tel: Peering DB:

Jennifer Atherton
Business Development Executive

Sales Update
For the Period April - June 2011
LINX is pleased to announce the connection of ten new members since the beginning of April. This is three more than the seven who joined the exchange over the first three months of the year. A glance at the flags opposite shows that red, white and blue are the dominant colours clearly indicating that the attractiveness of peering in London remains strong in the United Kingdom, US and French markets. What is particularly interesting is the depth of differing network types. Content, VoIP, NSP, Hosting, Cable, DSL and ISP providers are all represented by new LINX members this quarter. Other new members include Pacnet, an NSP network from China, Vectra, a cable, DSL and Internet Service Provider from Poland and Telekom Srbija, LINXs first member from Serbia. A complete LINX membership list is on the LINX website: www.linx.net/about/memberlist

Blinkmind

40739 USA NSP Open 195.66.224.26 www.blinkmind.com peering@blinkmind.com +1 408 648 4806 Yes

ASN: Country: Network: Policy: IPv4 Address: Website: Email: Tel: Peering DB:

Runiso

44099 France Content Open 195.66.225.164 www.runiso.com peering@runiso.com +33 362 138371 Yes

ASN: Country: Network: Policy: IPv4 Address: IPv6 Address: Website: Email: Tel: Peering DB:

Cerberus Networks

51918 United Kingdom Cable/DSL/ISP Open 195.66.225.163 2001:7f8:4::cace:1 www.cerberusnetworks.co.uk peering@cerberusnetworks.co.uk +44 845 257 1333 Yes

ASN: Country: Network: Policy: IPv4 Address: Website: Email: Tel: Peering DB:

Telappliant

34066 United Kingdom VoIP Unavailable 195.66.224.249 www.telappliant.com peering@telappliant.com +44 845 004 4040 No

ASN: Country: Network: Policy: IPv4 Address: Website: Email: Tel: Peering DB:

Currenex

17088 USA Content Unavailable 195.66.225.170 www.currenex.com network@currenex.com +1 203 395 7930 Yes

ASN: Country: Network: Policy: IPv4 Address: Website: Email: Tel: Peering DB:

Telekom Srbija

8400 Serbia NSP Selective 195.66.225.166 www.telekom.rs peering@telekom.rs +381 113 069145 Yes

Member Relations Update

LINX has now recruited two new people for its new Member Relations team with Katrina Readshaw and Emuobor Dafimu both joining LINX as Member Relations Representatives back in June. LINX Head of Marketing & Business Development, Ben Hedges, had this to say about the new appointments: Comment We are delighted to welcome Kat and Em to LINX family. They will both be based in our Peterborough office along with the rest of the Marketing & Business Development team, but members will be sure to see them around at LINX member meetings and other industry events. The new team will work closely with all parts of the company as well as acting as an interface between members and the exchange itself. The role will involve dealing with specific enquiries from the membership and directing requests and any issues to relevant departmental colleagues. Both Kat and Em will be profiled in a future issue of HotLINX.

ASN: Country: Network: Policy: IPv4 Address: IPv6 Address: Website: Email: Tel: Peering DB:

Pacnet

10026 China NSP Selective 195.66.225.168 2001:7f8:4::272a:1 www.pacnet.com peering@pacnet.net +852 2121 2828 Yes

ASN: Country: Network: Policy: IPv4 Address: Website: Email: Tel: Peering DB:

Vectra

29314 Poland Cable/DSL/ISP Unavailable 195.66.225.167 www.vectra.pl p.karny@vectra.pl +485 874 26224 No

ASN: Country: Network: Policy: IPv4 Address:

Rightnow Technologies
15179 USA Content Open 195.66.225.172

ASN: Country: Network: Policy: IPv4 Address: Website: Email: Tel: Peering DB:

Webfusion

20738 United Kingdom Hosting Unavailable 195.66.225.171 www.webfusion.co.uk noc@webfusion.com +44 208 587 7238 No

Website: www.rightnow.com Email: peering@rightnow.com Tel: +1 866 630 7669 Peering DB: Yes