The streaming media summer - top story in LINX magazine

Aug. 4, 2010 - PRLog -- The latest edition of the LINX Internet magazine, HotLINX has just been published online and is available for download. The top story in this issue is event traffic and how networks have fared what has been a streaming media summer.

HotLINX22 download: https://www.linx.net/files/hotlinx/hotlinx-22.pdf

As HotLINX went to press the FIFA World Cup in South Africa had just come to an end. Football’s premier tournament is arguably an even bigger sporting occasion than the Olympics and many people were streaming live video of big games through their computers. The Wimbledon Tennis championships also had an impact on Internet traffic as did political events such as UK General Election in May and the Budget a month later. All these events ensured traffic levels remained high for a considerable period time, in the UK at least.

Elsewhere in HotLINX there are articles on IPv6, London data centres, ADSL services, route servers, industry events plus much more besides. You can download this and previous editions of HotLINX from the LINX website: www.linx.net/publicity/hotlinx.html

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Notes to editors:

• LINX (www.linx.net) is a mutual, not-for-profit organisation whose 360+ members include 58 of the top 100 global network operators*, almost all UK Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and
content providers plus many from the Americas, mainland Europe, the Far East and Africa.

*Total Telecom Global 100, 2009.

• The connection of networks at an Internet exchange point such as LINX is known as 'peering'. Network operators use public peering across the dual LINX Ethernet networks to exchange traffic with any other member by mutual agreement. LINX also offers a managed private network interconnect facility which is used for large traffic flows between two members.

• The Internet traffic at LINX consists of a wide variety of data including streaming media, website downloads, business information and emails. Peak LINX traffic is the equivalent of more than 1,600,000 simultaneous Internet video streams.

• HotLINX is a quarterly publication produced by LINX for it's members and other industry stakeholders.

For more information call Jeremy Orbell on +44 20 7645 3505 or e-mail pr@linx.net

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LINX is a mutually owned membership association for operators of IP networks. We provide a neutral interconnection facility and peering platform, known as an Internet Exchange Point, and represent the interests of our members on matters of public policy.