LINX New PoPs

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LINX New PoPs

• Bigger, Wider, Faster

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Why have new PoPs at all?

• Bring the benefits of LINX to more AS!
• Bring the benefits of more AS to LINX members
• Colocation operator demand
• Member demand for locations fitting their
  business
• Maturity

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Who are we talking about?

• Beauty Parade LINX60, Feb 2008
• Three selected by LINX board
• Interxion, West of Docklands

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An additional 1250m2 in the Phase 1
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Interxion
Rare daylight sighting of LINX engineer
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Who?

• Beauty Parade LINX61, Feb 2008
• Three selected by LINX board
• Interxion, West of Docklands
• Telecity Powergate, Even wester of Docklands

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5000m2 development
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Who?

• Beauty Parade LINX61, Feb 2008
• Three selected by LINX board
• Interxion, West of Docklands
• Telecity Powergate, Even wester of Docklands
• Equinix Slough, Very very west of Docklands

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5000m2 development
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Where are these POPs?
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How did we go about it?

• Three new PoPs at the same time is a bit greedy!
• External project manager contracted
• Generic Top Level Agreement agreed
• Nitty-gritty took 3 months
• Selection of vendors
• Implementation

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Topology?
Each new POP is connected to Foundry and Extreme
LANs
Telehouse North
Equinix
4 other existing PoPs
Interxion
Telecity Millharbour
Telecity
Existing network
Telecity Sovereign House
DWDM over Geo
DWDM over Level3
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Business as normal at new PoPs

• 100Mb n10Gb ports
• (Copper/Fibre access via Meet-Me rooms)
• IPv4 Unicast LANs on Foundry and Extreme hardware
• IPv6 Unicast LANs on Foundry and Extreme hardware
• Multicast LAN
• (Route Server/NTP/BENTO/Sflow)

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So when can you connect?

• Interxion Sept
• Equinix Oct
• Telecity Nov
• Special offers from all colo site operators

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Hurdles ........

• Foundry software problems
• Level 3 contracted to deliver a small change to
  an existing ring in one month
• ...but delivered one month late ?!?
• Various cabinet delivery issues
• 10G optics

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Remember...

• Legals always take longer than you think
• Commercial terms are a 2 way street
• Build big enough to succeed
• Manage the technical aspects
• Communicate to the engineering staff
• Ask for feedback from members as you go along

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Thank You

• Questions?
• raza_at_linx.net