1. LINX update to EIX John Souter, CEO @RIPE62

2. Agenda 1.New staff 2.Improvements to monitoring & set-up 3.Move to new optical platform 4.Move to VPLS architecture

3. New staff Mike Hellers Network Ops Manager Ben Hedges Marketing & Business Development Manager Derek Cobb CTO Mark Stokes Pre-sales engineer Starting soon: Member relations team Recruiting: Database developer Engineers

5. Monitoring system We ’ ve had a brocade of outages in recent times  This has lead to improvements to monitoring and our set-up Monitoring systems are never done! More ‘ protective ’ set-up

6. New optical platform Decision to buy new platform – Based on MRV equipment – To be deployed between member connections and the switches The big gains: – Efficient use of our dark fibre infrastructure – Enables switch vendor independent optics for inter-switch links Supports move to 8x10G linecards for ISLs

7. Move to VPLS Architectural review in 2010 – Firm decision to move to VPLS from ring-based architecture Implementation delayed by recent events Expect to complete this summer

8. Questions?