Britain becomes global internet hub
1 October 2004
The London Internet Exchange (Linx) has reportedly become the largest independent internet hub in the world.
The exchange is now processing around 40 gigabits of data a second at peak times, with total peak rates hitting 55 gigabits a second when Linx's private peering services are including.
The UK's net firms swap traffic between each other's networks via Linx, located in London's Docklands, and the huge volume of traffic now being processed puts the UK ahead of similar exchanges in the US and Japan.
The non-profit London Internet Exchange handles the "peering" systems that link all the networks of the UK's net firms to each other. About 150 net firms swap traffic via Linx private peering systems - data cables that directly connect two internet firms.
The data flowing across the Linx network includes email messages, data from web browsing sessions and content such as images and video.
"Commercial competitors can deliver internet data from one customer to another faster and more cost effectively than switching it through several different networks," said Linx sales and marketing manager Vanessa Evans.
"Collectively, our members have access to around half of all the world's internet routes."
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