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The LINX UK-wide Peering Initiative

The LINX UK-wide Peering Initiative. John Souter CEO, LINX Scotland (Edinburgh) Peering Event March 2013. A presentation in two parts. A presentation in two parts. A little about LINX The LINX UK-wide peering initiative. A presentation in two parts. A little about LINX

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The LINX UK-wide Peering Initiative

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  1. The LINX UK-wide Peering Initiative John SouterCEO, LINXScotland (Edinburgh) Peering Event March 2013

  2. A presentation in two parts

  3. A presentation in two parts • A little about LINX • The LINX UK-wide peering initiative

  4. A presentation in two parts • A little about LINX • The LINX UK-wide peering initiative Many thanks to Clive Downing for helping us to make this happen!

  5. A little about LINX

  6. A little about LINX • Established: 1994 • A not-for-profit mutual Internet exchange • One of the three largest in the world • More than 460 members • 80% of the global routing table visible @LINX • More than 6.75Tb/sec of connected capacity • Peak traffic (public+private) >3Tb/sec

  7. To facilitate Internet interconnection, especially through public peering To represent the interests of our members in matters of public policy LINX: dual mission As a neutral, mutually owned membership association

  8. LINX in practice • Commercially strong, growing fast • 10 points of presence in London data centres (connected together by LINX) • Two networks in London, powered by equipment from Juniper & Extreme • A new exchange in Manchester • Around 45 staff in two offices

  9. International LINX

  10. LINX Public Affairs

  11. UK-wide peering initiative

  12. UK-wide peering initiative

  13. UK-wide peering? • LINX mission: “keep traffic local” • Which, from a UK-vs-the-world perspective, LINX has done • But there is little or no UK peering outside of London • So can we keep traffic more local?

  14. Why UK-wide peering? Many benefits accrue from this: • Keep traffic local (lower latency, lower costs etc.) • Reduce dependency on London • Boost for local network operators • Boost for local economy around exchanges

  15. So what have we done? • We launched IXManchester in June 2012 • ~36 members are connected • Significant peering traffic

  16. Where is IXManchester? • Initially in Telecity Williams House • Telecity have made a generous offer: • First 50 orders from Telecity customers receive a free (for ever) cross-connect from Kilburn House to the LINX PoP • We are planning to extend to other locations…

  17. IXManchester services • Just like LINX in London: • Existing order process • 100Mb, 1G, 10G peering ports • Ports stats & sFlow • Monitoring & OoH NOC • support@linx.net • And to come: • ConneXions partnership scheme • Probably private interconnect

  18. Pricing in Manchester • Single membership fee • No matter how many LINX exchange networks a member connects to • No charge for 100Mb & 1G ports during establishment period • This could be long (~ 2 years?) • 10G ports at £750/month

  19. IXManchester: big networks? • Five existing members connected on 10G ports: • Ask4, C&W, Janet, M247, VirginMedia • Several large access networks connecting at 10G: • BT, O2, TalkTalk • Several large content networks connecting at 10G: • Akamai, BBC, Netflix • Several more network potentially connecting at 10G: • We’ve identified a further 9, and are in discussion with them • That is potentially 20 networks with 10G ports at IXManchester in 2013/2014

  20. IXManchester resources • Mailing list • IXManchester@linx.net (local community discussions) • Traffic graph (public): • https://stats.linx.net/cgi-pub/exchange?log=manchester.bits • Looking glass (public): • https://stats.linx.net • https://stats.linx.net/cgi-pub/xlg.pl?run=true&site=IX-Manchester1&query_type=+BGP+Summary&address=&Submit=Submit • Prices, other resources, etc: • https://www.linx.net/service/publicpeering/ixmanchester.html

  21. Where next? • This will be demand driven • So needs a local community of interest • Northern Ireland & Scotland? • For obvious geographic reasons • But we’ve had discussions with many more areas (Liverpool, Birmingham, East Midlands, South East etc.) • Perhaps 10 exchanges in the longer term? • Will need local data centre operators…

  22. Style of our approach • Use the established LINX membership structure • Respect local ‘ownership need’ • Keep it simple & straightforward • Take the long term view about economic viability • Separate stand-alone exchanges • Not connected back to London

  23. Exchange template • Sales, billing, admin • Existing process to order ports etc. • Single bill, no new agreement to sign • Engineering support • Lessons learnt from 2008 new PoPs project • support@linx.net • Infrastructure • ‘LINX in a rack’ (switch, monitoring server, route server, management network)

  24. ‘LINX in a rack’

  25. Exchange template • Architecture • Mostly start with a single PoP • Potential to expand to more connected sites in the longer term… • Local guidance is important • Each new exchange will need a local community of interest to guide and nourish it…

  26. Establishing local viability • This is the key issue • We are trying very hard: • Not to be prescriptive • And to take the long term view • But: • It does need a local community of both network content and access providers • It does need supportive local data centres

  27. Questions?

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