London LINX is world's busiest Internet exchangePosted 23/09/2004
The UK's status as a world leader in Internet technology and e-commerce has received a boost with the news that the London Internet Exchange (LINX) now transmits more data than any other independent Internet hub on the planet.
The announcement will further government aims to make the UK a world leader in e-commerce.
LINX - a not-for-profit organisation - is now passing a record 40 gigabits of data per second through the exchange at peak times.
This means its eight high-capacity Internet routing suites located around London's Docklands are handling more data than even the largest Internet exchanges in Japan and the USA offering services on a similar basis.
The 55,000,000,000 bits of data passing through LINX each second consist of website downloads, business information and e-mails being exchanged between the networks of LINX members.
The LINX membership consists of 150 Internet service providers (ISPs) from around the world and leading content delivery service providers, such as the BBC.
LINX sales and marketing manager Vanessa Evans explained: "As a mutual organisation, owned by our members, we offer unique facilities where commercial competitors can deliver Internet data from one customer to another faster and more cost effectively than switching it through several different networks.
"Collectively, our members have access to around half of all the world's Internet routes."
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