London Internet Exchange

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London Internet Exchange

• Keith Mitchell
• Executive Chairman
• keith_at_linx.org

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Overview

• 5th Birthday coming upLINX started October 1994
  !
• Staff changes
• Over 1Gbps total traffic !
• Some MoU changes
• Expansion beyond 2 sites planned
• Future offerings

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Principles

• Neutral locations
• Not owned by ISPs or telcos
• Neutral management
• By association of members
• Neutral operation
• By dedicated autonomous staff
• Should not compete with members services
• No retail members, only ISPs
• Well-funded quality facilities and infrastructure

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Principles (continued)

• Natural national monopoly should be
• Not for profit
• Efficient
• Accountable
• Routing policy is purely a matter for members,
  though some constraints
• Members must peer with at least 1 other
• Direct bilateral connections also permitted

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Membership

• Restricted to ISPs
• Main Criteria
• Independent path to 4 root name servers
• Sell Internet service
• RIPE NCC contributing local registry
• Publish contact info
• Non-UK ISPs welcome

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LINX Members 94-99 Cumulative
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Traffic Statistics - Year to Sep 99
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LINX - Members by Country
84 members
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Organisation

• Public company limited by guarantee
• Membership meetings every 3 months
• determine policy and strategy
• Membership appoints Council of 6 at AGM
• Full-time Executive Chairman
• Office in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
• 8 FTE staff, budget for 12

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Staff

• Executive Chairman
• Operations Manager
• 2 Engineers (4 vacancies)
• 1 Student Placement Engineer(Furtwangen,De
  Montford Universities)
• Sales Marketing
• Bookkeeper/Administrator
• Regulation Officer
• 5 non-executive Directors

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New Staff Structure
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LINX Switches

• 3 x Packet Engines PR-5200
• interim 1 x FDDI dedicated
• 3 x Extreme Summit 48
• 1 x Packet Engines PR-1000
• 1 x Cisco Catalyst 5000
• legacy FDDI backup only
• Extreme Black Diamond
• shortly to be installed

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Traffic Statistics - Week 13-20th Sep 99
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Traffic Statistics- Eclipse on 13th Aug 1999
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New MoU Provisions

• http//www.linx.net/mou-v5_0.html(final draft
  for approval at LINX27)
• Tightened up 24x7 contact details and procedures
• Only one IP MAC address per port(no 3rd-party
  switches)
• First subscription payment quarterly pro-rata

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New MoU Prohibitions

• Wrong netmask
• Non-LINX assigned IP addresses
• CDP, IRDP broadcasts
• Duplex etc auto-sensing
• Leaking LINX prefixes

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LINX Sites - London Docklands

• Existing Telehouse site full
• New Telehouse East extension opened yesterday
• ready for LINX service 99Q4
• Still some space in TeleCity
• LINX has 2 x 7km dark fibre between sites
• Diverse carriers (EGT, COLT)
• Expansion Sites scheme
• approved at LINX27

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Additional Services Fee

• Chargeable if more than Basic2 x100baseT ports _at_
  65 utilisation required
• 1 non-blocking Gigabit ethernet port
• Or any 2 of
• 1 blocking Gigabit port
• 1 FDDI port
• 2 further 100baseT ports
• 4U router co-lo in Telehouse
• 8U router co-lo elsewhere

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99/00 Fees

• UK10,000 joining
• UK 7,000 subscription Oct - Mar
• UK 7,000 subscription Apr - Sep
• UK10,000 for additional services

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Recent Developments

• Help reduce legal bills !
• Template Peering Agreement
• Sample inter-provider contract
• Non-mandatory
• http//www.linx.net/joininfo/peering-template
• Dispute Resolution Procedure
• e.g. peering
• Voluntary, non-binding

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Current Non-Core Activities

• http//www.linx.net/noncore/
• Content Regulation
• Internet Watch funding and oversight
• Telecomms Regulation
• UBM (Spam) Regulation
• Law Enforcement Regulation
• subsumes crypto NCAP
• Interception of Communications
• Internet User Privacy Forumhttp//www.iupf.org.uk

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Looking Ahead...

• Expansion Site Scheme
• Resilient self-healing
• spanning tree vs WDM
• Diverse bi-lateral wiring
• Multicast Exchange Facility
• GPS antennas for
• Stratum-1 NTP server
• RIPE NCC test traffic box
• Member Newsletter

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Further Information

• http//www.linx.net/
• info_at_linx.org
• Tel [phone]
• Fax [phone]