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IXCardiffLINX Launches Latest Regional Exchangeat Cardiff’s Millennium StadiumLINX’s mission has always been to work for the good of theInternet and to ‘keep traffic local’ and its extensive backbonenetwork, spanning many different London data centres, meansthat LINX members have always had a choice as to where theyconnect. However, it was realised that the success in the capitalwas perhaps inhibiting the establishment of peering points in therest of the UK so with the active support of its members, a UKregional peering strategy was put in place to address this. Thisstrategy led to the establishment of IXManchester and IXScotlandwith consulations for other areas being held around the country.One such location was Cardiff in South Wales. LINX believedthat the city satisfied two of the three criteria of its regionalpeering strategy by having the support of Cardiff City Counciland the Welsh Government plus a strong local community ofinterest. The one criteria not satisfied was the availability of acarrier neutral data centre. A creative solution was found byworking with LINX member BT and their Stadium House datacentre facility. They have provided what is essentially a carrierneutral service for IXCardiff which in practice means thatmembers will be able to rent rackspace directly from LINXwithin BT Stadium House. This rackspace will be colocatedclosely with the LINX equipment.An Internet exchange in the heart of Cardiff is a huge steptowards creating a world class digital infrastructure for Wales.It reduces the dependancy of industry on London and othermajor digital conurbations, giving them the benefit of lower localoverheads. It also provides faster more reliable digital services, afertile environment for SMEs, which in turn contributes to theregional digital economy stimulating local growth.Peering Grant SchemeTo help build the digital community in Wales Cardiff Council hassecured funding for a Peering Grant scheme for businesses toconnect at IXCardiff. This is known as the SuperConnected Citiesprogramme and will help SMEs to peer with other organisationsto improve speeds within the city, provide resilience nationally andhelp attract further investment by reducing barriers to entry. Itwill also reduce costs to end-users (as a result of creating greatercompetition in the local ISP market) and create an infrastructurethat will support rapid expansion.Going Live Q4 2014The new exchange, which will be formally launched on 15October, will accept port orders and connections fromNovember. The full range of services and the exchange’s technicalspecification can be found below.IXCardiff Technical Spec & Services• Extreme X460 switch• Management router• Route collector and route server for multilateral peering• Monitoring server plus phone and email support• IPv4 and IPv6 Peering LANs• 100Mb, 1G, 10G peering ports• ConneXions partnership scheme• Rack space rentalIXCardiff Launch EventIt’s still not too late to attend the IXCardiff launch event buttime is running out fast. The event is taking place at Cardiff’sMillennium Stadium on Wednesday 15 October 2014 anda number of keynote speakers outlining the benefits andsignificance of the new exchange is planned.If you are interested in attending and helping make regionalpeering a success in Wales then please register now. Places arestrictly limited with only three people per company alloweddue to the venue’s restricted capacity.Registration will close promptly at midday on Monday 13October 2014. To sign up, and to learn more about the eventagenda, please follow the link below:www.linx.net/events/regional/Wales/M2/Cardiff.html10 HotLINX Issue <strong>39</strong> | Inside Stories
New London PoP at DigitalRealty Site in ChessingtonAs announced in the last issue ofHotLINX, LINX is to expand its rangeof London PoPs to include the DigitalRealty data centre in Chessington.The Surrey site will go live in Q4 2014and will be 100 GE Capability fromday one. While LINX equipment willbe based at Chessington, the PoP willoperate as a hub for LINX connectivityfrom a virtual campus, including otherDigital Realty data centres nearby inRedhill and Woking. Therefore anynetwork from those facilities will also beable to connect to the exchange.LINX Engineering have developedan architecture that will allow theChessington PoP to fit seamlessly intothe exisiting core-edge configuration ofthe Juniper LAN and Extreme topology.As can be seen in the graphic below,the Chessington edge site will link withthe Juniper LAN core at TelecityGroup’sHarbour Exchange 6/7 as well as atInterxion in Brick Lane. The Interxionsite became a core location during thesummer.For the Extreme LAN the core willalso be connected at Telecity HarbourExchange 6/7 but instead of Interxion itwill be connected at Sovereign House,another TelecityGroup data centre.The new infrastructure will providemembers, and new networks looking tojoin the exchange, an increased choicein colocation provider away from itstraditional Docklands heartland - addingmore resilience to their networkinfrastructure.Chessington PoP LaunchLINX Chessington Launchand ISPA Data CentreWorkshopLINX is pleased to announce thatit will be staging a launch eventfor the new Chessington PoP onTuesday 21 October. The event willform part of a special Data Centreworkshop hosted by the InternetService Providers Association(ISPA) at the same venue.The free ISPA workshop will featurea panel and Q&A on connectivity,broadband and operational issues,with a second panel on the legaland liability matters for thosehosting content. A networking lunchand tour of the data centre facilitywill be included. More informationon the agenda can be found here:www.ispa.org.uk/event/data-centreworkshop-drinks-reception-2/LINX’s Head of Public Affairswill speaking at the event as partof the legal and liability issuespanel. Among the topics beingcovered will be responsibility fordata and content, DRIPA andother legislation, online copyrightinfringement and liability regimeplus the Data Protection Directive.The format for the LINXChessington launch is still beingfinalised but details will beannounced shortly. To registerfor both the LINX ChessingtonPoP launch as well as the ISPAworkshop please emailadmin@ispa.org.ukChessington site live Q4 2014Digital Realty ChessingtonA State of the Art FacilityThe 50,000 sq ft technical Tier III+ rated Chessington facility islocated 17miles south west of central London and sits within theLondon’s M25 motorway. The data centre has five data halls, eachof about 10,000 sq m of space, with 1,440kW UninterruptiblePower Supply (UPS) capacity. In addition it has diverse fibreconnections to other Digital Realty sites in Redhill and Woking.For more information on Digital Realty please visit their website:www.digitalrealty.co.ukHotLINX Issue <strong>39</strong> | Inside Stories 11
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Page 17 and 18: Industry EventsBen HedgesChief Mark
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