London Internet Exchange magazine now online: Keeping UK Network Traffic Local

LONDON - April 25, 2013 - PRLog -- You can access the latest PDF issue of HotLINX via the following link on the London Internet Exchange website: https://www.linx.net/files/hotlinx/hotlinx-33.pdf

The lead story in this issue is the topic of local peering. Since the last edition LINX has held regional events in Belfast in Northern Ireland and Edinburgh in Scotland with further meetings planned for Manchester and Birmingham in England. Local peering is important and can have great benefits for the digital economy in different areas and for Internet end users. Find out why on pages 10 and 11.

In our News pages we have stories on LINX's twinning with the Zambia Internet Exchange, the first Middle East Peering Forum, the Open IX initiative and also the LINX Engineering team's work at the Extreme Networks' labs in Carolina, USA.

There's another bumper Public Affairs section with updates on the Digital Economy Act and Ofcom and in our 'In the Spotlight' interview we speak with Andrew Cormack, Chief Regulatory Offer at LINX member and educational network, Janet.

We also have updates from LINX associate members RIPE NCC, Internet Systems Consortium, Netnod, OCCAID and Renesys and LINX member meeting sponsors Telindus and Arista Networks.

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Notes to editors:

About LINX

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

Our members consist of access networks, ISPs such as BT and content providers like Google,who exchange Internet traffic between each other over our secure peering LANs. Through LINX they are able to reach 80% of the total global Internet making it one of the single biggest connection points in the world.

About HotLINX magazine

HotLINX is read by stakeholders right across the Internet industry. In addition to LINX members, recipients now include equipment vendors, colocation providers, news agencies as well as government officials and policy makers concerned with Internet regulation. We have also distributed copies to universities and other educational establishments which have relevant courses on their curriculum.