1 February 2000 London Internet Exchange Point Update Keith Mitchell Executive Chairman NANOG18 Meeting San Jose

1 1 Developments since NANOG15 LINX 5th Birthday Nov ‘99 :-) Year of Gigabit Ethernet service Expansion to multiple sites Peering governance Additional infrastructure Non-core activities Y2K non-event

1 1 What is the LINX ? UK National IXP Neutral, not-for-profit co-operative of ISPs Main aim to keep UK domestic Internet traffic in UK Increasingly keeping EU traffic in EU Not a co-lo provider

1 1 Members by Country Total = 91

1 1 Recent New Members BBC C&W Europe Concert InterRoute IS Internet Mannesman NTT RML Roka Saunalahti Telenor Nextel Viag

1 1 Gigabit Ethernet First deployed inter-switch 98Q4/99Q1 Available to members:  pilot 99Q4  service 00Q1 - 8 members  needed ! Poor availability and support of Cisco GigEth router interfaces has hindered member take-up

1 1 LINX Switches Packet Engines  2 x PowerRail-5200  1 x PowerRail-2200  1 x PowerRail-1000 Extreme  1 x Black Diamond  2 x Summit 48 Multicast Exchange Switches  Summit 48, PR-1000, Cat 5000

Switch Configuration 1 1

Total Traffic Growth 1 1 Max In: Mb/sAverage In:583.2 Mb/s Current In: Mb/s Max Out: Mb/sAverage Out:606.0 Mb/s Current Out: Mb/s GREEN ###Incoming Traffic in Bits per Second BLUE ### Outgoing Traffic in Bits per Second

1 1 Expansion Sites Primary sites at:  Telehouse, TeleCity Major co-lo provider growth in London Docklands & City area Dark fibre Gigabit MAN with WDM By end Feb:  Redbus Interhouse  Telehouse Eastern extension By end Q1:  Guardian DR, InterXion, IX Europe

1 1 New MoU Prohibitions Only one IP & MAC address per port  no 3rd-party switches Wrong netmask Non-LINX assigned IP addresses CDP, IRDP broadcasts Duplex etc auto-sensing Leaking LINX prefixes

1 1 Peering Facilitation Help reduce legal bills ! Template Peering Agreement  Sample inter-provider contract  Non-mandatory Dispute Resolution Procedure  e.g. peering  Voluntary, non-binding

1 1 Current Non-Core Activities Content Regulation  Internet Watch funding and oversight Telecomms Regulation UBM (“Spam”) Regulation Law Enforcement Regulation  subsumes crypto NCAP  Interception of Communications  Internet User Privacy Forum

1 1 Other Infrastructure Route Servers Pilot Multicast Exchange  ~10 participants Bid to host gTLD server for NSI 3 Cesium NTP Stratum 1 atomic clocks  “Greenwich e-Time” (really UTC) 

GeT Networked Atomic Clocks on Meridian line

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