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Partner support helps create LINX 20 year success storyThe support and commitment LINX has received from its vendors and data centre partners overthe last 20 years cannot be overestimated and has helped shape the exchange we see today. In 2014Juniper Networks and Extreme Networks supply the hardware for the exchange and Telehouse Europeand Interxion are just two, among a growing number of data centre operators, who provide the facilitiesto help LINX run its infrastructure. The organisations named on these pages are all sponsoring LINX’s20th anniversary year and we are delighted that they have taken the opportunity to tell us why.t established Internet exchange pointsm small beginnings in East London theuse with traffic being passed over multipleterritories in multiple countries. The LINXted to serving our members, both with ourlic affairs arena. LINX will continue to pushny years to come.Telehouse EuropeTelehouse’s place in LINX’s history isassured as it was the location of LINX’svery first switch, a Cisco Catalyst 1200switch with eight 10-megabit ports, back in1994. Rack space was then leased by thefledgling exchange at what is now knownas Telehouse North. It was also here thatthe ‘k’ root server was installed some threeyears later in 1997. In time Telehouse builtfurther sites with Telehouse East openingin 2004 and Telehouse West in 2010.Today Telehouse hosts two core sites oneach of LINX’s London Peering LANs anda significant number of edge routers ineach of the three Telehouse buildings.“The LINX birthdaycelebrations are a specialtime for Telehouse and forme personally. It remindsme that just as LINX hasgrown over the years, so toohas Telehouse. Together we were at theforefront of the Internet evolution andit’s our combined energy and pioneeringoutlook which has made LINX andTelehouse the leaders they are today”Michelle Reid, Telehouse Europeion of HotLINX which told the story of thewe have the graphical representations of thered in that particular issue. Today, we happylaunch of IXCardiff, the very first InternetInterxionInterxion first became a LINX datacentre partner in the summer of 2008.Their Brick Lane facility in centralLondon connected to the network aspart of a large scale LINX expansionproject covering the whole Londonmetropolitan region. It’s importanceto LINX’s network architecture wascemented earlier this year whenInterxion became a core PoP on theJuniper LAN and also a location forLINX’s own internal systems.“For Interxion, the benefitsof partnering with LINX arethat we’ve become muchmore central to the Internet.We have improved our sitesbecause customers can peerwith each other, and we provide moreInternet connections as well. Now thatwe also have the LINX core pop here, itmakes us one of central London’s mostconnected data centres and builds on ourheritage of providing the best connectivitysolutions to our customers.”Mike Hollands, InterxionFirst IXPfrom Europe tolaunch a regionalexchange in theUSAFirst IXPto be awardedOpen-IXcertificationFirst IXPto open anInternet exchangein WalesHotLINX Issue 39 | 20th Birthday Sponsors 13