Peering Beneficial - IXLeeds

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The New Internet Exchange in Yorkshire Faster... Cheaper... More reliable... ...... internet in the North Andy Davidson 0114 319 0605

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The New

Internet Exchangein Yorkshire

Faster...Cheaper...More reliable... ...... internet in the North

Andy Davidson0114 319 0605

Time Passes

Business Networking

Interconnection

Knowledge Exchange

This……

….leads to a need for lots of this….

Interconnection

Link between two networks

Equal Benefit

5

Direct Connection

between two networks

Peering is a

Mutually BeneficialPeering is

FasterIt makes your stuff

CheaperIt m

akes

stuff

You become more AVAILABLE

Don’t like speed limits?

Build more roads!

Many private 1:1 Connections scale badly

Shared glue in the middle scales better

Access / ISP

Content

Telephony

Enterprise

Exchange

LondonAmsterdam

Frankfurt

LondonAmsterdam

Frankfurt

Leeds?

Dublin

Berlin

Prague

Warsaw

IXPs in Europe

Number of IXPs: 132In 36 countries

At 420 DCs in 140 citiesAverage 1GE price: €5k/yrIXLeeds 1GE price: £1k/yrNo. of connections: 6,300

Peak traffic in 2011: 5.867Tb

Local IndependenceA powerful combined voice

A local opinion

Launch!

Soft launch … September 2010

“install a switch and see what happens next”

Formal launch … September 2011

Today we have 16 members (13 online)

Yesterday we launched IPv6 peering lan

And the UK’s first Jumbo Frames peering lan

Join in…

[email protected]• Twitter: @ixleeds

• Andy Davidson [email protected] @andyd 0114 319 0605