Global telecommunications carrier, CMC Networks, the latest addition to the LINX ConneXions Reseller Programme, invest in a 10G port at LINX in London. CMC Networks, the largest Pan African carrier...
Read MoreThe London Internet Exchange (LINX) are celebrating a new traffic peak at their regional exchange point in Northern Virginia, LINX NoVA following engineering upgrades. LINX NoVA was established back in...
Read MoreStatement from LINX At approximately 04:30BST Equinix lost power to their LD8 datacentre, which also hosts one of the eleven points of presence for LINX LON1 and LON2 peering LANs....
Read MoreInternational Affairs In addition to the UK and European level, LINX is also active in the international arena, actively participating in intergovernmental forums such as the ITU and the ICANN...
Read MoreSecurity In addition to content, the other area attracting increased Government scrutiny is security. In July 2019, the UK Government published the findings from its UK Telecoms Supply Chain Review,...
Read MoreMalcolm Hutty, LINX Head of Public Affairs Introduction In a series of three blogs, I want to provide an overview of some of the most significant policy matters that the...
Read MoreNetIX helps improve Neterra’s access to UK-centric traffic. Due to the high volumes of traffic travelling across Neterra’s network during the lock-down period, NetIX has upgraded Neterra’s LINX peering port...
Read MoreRecently, Chris Buckridge (RIPE NCC) and Nurani Nimpuno (LINX) held an online discussion with around 50 people to consider the impact that our COVID-19 era “remote only” approach to events...
Read MoreLINX ConneXions Reseller Partner Faelix expand UK footprint and connect new member Pinnacom to the exchange. Faelix, a hosting and connectivity provider located in Manchester, have been LINX members themselves...
Read MoreWith LINX Manchester celebrating its 8th anniversary this week, LINX Network Engineer, Joe Jefford has been tracking the IXs growth from 2016 to the current day. Introduction Life at LINX...
Read MoreThe gaming industry has seen record increases in recent weeks as more people turn to their entertainment services during this lockdown period. What part does Telehouse and the London Internet...
Read MoreThe London Internet Exchange (LINX) today announced that Iron Mountain Data Centers, global provider of data centre and colocation services, has joined LINX as an official ConneXions reseller partner. By...
Read MoreGlobal operator Angola Cables, a registered ConneXions reseller partner of the London Internet Exchange (LINX), has recently increased their port capacity to London from 10GE to 100GE. Global networks have...
Read MoreThe London Internet Exchange (LINX) have recruited Pieter Knook as non-executive Chairperson for its Board of Directors. Pieter Knook has a very long and successful career at Microsoft and has...
Read MoreLINX CEO Emeritus, John Souter as he took the stage during the LINX107 member conference to present on the history of LINX. The London Internet Exchange, known as LINX, celebrated...
Read MoreLINX CEO Kurtis Lindqvist and CFO Malcolm Holt at the LINX107 member conference at the Park Plaza Victoria in London. LINX, the London Internet Exchange, have committed to reducing the...
Read MoreThe London Internet Exchange (LINX) are pleased to announce they will be launching a 4th site at their regional Internet exchange in Manchester. Launched in 2012, LINX Manchester has gone...
Read MoreLINX Go LIVE with New Universal IX API Following the announcement, presentation and live demonstration during the key networking event EPF14 last week in Tallinn, the London Internet Exchange (LINX)...
Read MoreGlobal Internet Exchange Leaders Develop Universal API Today at EPF (European Peering Forum) taking place in Tallinn, Estonia, it was announced that the world’s leading Internet Exchange operators AMS-IX (Amsterdam),...
Read MoreThe London Internet Exchange (LINX) are actively recruiting a replacement non-executive Chairperson for its Board of Directors. LINX is the largest, solely member-run Internet exchange in the World, with over...
Read MoreDue to increased member and capacity demands, the London Internet Exchange are pleased to announce considerable port upgrades to their VIRTUS Data Centre peering location. VIRTUS’ LONDON2 facility in...
Read MoreThe London Internet Exchange (LINX) announced today that their long-standing CEO, John Souter, has announced his intention to retire at the end of 2019. John has served as LINX CEO...
Read MoreThe London Internet Exchange (LINX) and the Japan Internet Exchange (JPIX) recently entered into a new partnership agreement, a collaboration which stems from the knowledge that an increasing number of...
Read MoreThe UK government has today published its much anticipated policy paper "Online Harms". This proposes a regulator for Internet content (whether a new regulator, or repurposing an existing one), to...
Read MoreOur regional Internet exchange in Northern Virginia, LINX NoVA is celebrating it's 5th birthday this week! Until LINX NoVA launched in 2014, the Ashburn metro area, one of the largest...
Read MoreSaudi Telecom Company (STC) and the London Internet Exchange (LINX) have announced that Limelight has provided a Letter of Intent (loi) that they will take the first 100GE port at...
Read MoreSubsea Cables have been growing at an astounding rate of 40% CAGR (Compound Annual Growth Rate). Last couple of years have seen a major resurgence in the subsea projects globally....
Read MoreThe European parliament has voted in favour of controversial proposals to reform online copyright. The two most controversial articles in the proposed copyright directive, article 11 and article 13, had...
Read MoreToday the London Internet Exchange announced that it has joined the MANRS IXP Programme and will be supporting the MANRS initiative. MANRS (Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security) was created...
Read MoreThe Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has published a targeted consultation to seek views on how the Government intends to implement the Network and Information Systems (NIS)...
Read MoreThe Malaysian government has brought forward a bill in Parliament that sets the penalty for publishing so-called "fake news" online with up to ten years in jail plus a fine...
Read MoreThe Council of Europe has published a Recommendation to Member States on the roles and responsibilities of Internet intermediaries. The Recommendation declares that access to the Internet is a precondition...
Read MoreICANN has announced that it will not delegate new top-level domains .home, mail and .corp, effectively turning these domains into reserved strings. The move acts to protect organisations that already...
Read MoreThe UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) has published its response to the replies it received to last year's public consultation on implementation of the Network Information Security...
Read MoreThe Austrian Supreme Court has asked the European Court of Justice to rule on whether Facebook should actively search for hate speech posted by users. The original lawsuit against Facebook...
Read MoreThe UK government has announced that it will set up a new unit to counter “fake news” and disinformation. The government said that the “dedicated national security communications unit”, which...
Read MoreThe UK’s Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has launched a new campaign to teach children about online copyright infringement. In a bid to make intellectual property “fun”, the IPO has produced...
Read MoreThe UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has published a Green Paper with plans to bolster government powers to intervene in corporate mergers and takeovers involving high-tech...
Read MoreThe UK Government has announced proposals for a voluntary levy on Internet companies “to raise awareness and counter internet harms”. The government has said that the levy would target issues such as...
Read MoreHome Secretary Amber Rudd focussed on Internet policy issues in her speech to the Conservative Party Conference in Manchester. The Home Secretary reiterated her demands for Internet platforms to do...
Read MoreTwo websites have been discovered to be using their users’ computers and phones to mine cryptocurrency without their consent in a bid to compensate for the continuing collapse in online...
Read MoreThe UK prime minister, Theresa May, has told internet companies that they need to go “further and faster” in removing extremist content in a speech to the United Nations general...
Read MoreThe Electoral Commission has suggested social media trolls who abuse politicians should lose their right to vote, in a submission to the Committee on Standards in Public Life. A voting...
Read MoreA cyber attack has recently impacted the Scottish Parliament. MSPs and their staff have been warned that they will be unlikely to be able to access their email accounts due...
Read MoreYesterday, Cloudflare ceased to provide caching and DDoS protection services for a far-right blog, the Daily Stormer, following claims by the latter that Cloudflare secretly support their ideology. Cloudflare's CEO has...
Read MoreThe Mayor of London Sadiq Khan announced plans to help improve connectivity across London. One plan involves the creation of a “Not-Spot team” that will specifically target areas in London...
Read MoreThe UK Government has launched a consultation on its plans to implement the Security of Network and Information Systems Directive (“NIS Directive”). The NIS Directive was adopted by the European...
Read MoreThe Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has recently published a statement of intent regarding the new Data Protection Bill which will implement the General Data Protection Regulation...
Read MoreA phishing scam has recently affected Newcastle University, potentially duping many prospective students out of their money. The scam orientates around a mysterious individual or group of people operating under...
Read MoreA study led by Dr. Andrew Przybylski of the University of Oxford found that cyberbullying – bullying that takes place over the internet – is not as prevalent as feared....
Read MoreBoth Russia and China are in the process of banning virtual private networks (VPNs), a tool that creates a secure, encrypted connection between a computer and a server operated by...
Read MoreThe Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA) has recently announced at the 19th Annual UK Internet Industry Awards – colloquially dubbed the “ISPAs” – the Internet Hero Award went to Marcus...
Read MoreBaroness Howe has tabled a private member's bill seeking to broaden the definition of what is classified as extreme pornography. Baroness Howe, a crossbencher and life peer in the House...
Read MoreA large number of internet giants – including Facebook, Google, AirBnB and others – are preparing for a “Day of Protest” on Wednesday 12th July over a ruling by the...
Read MoreThe former head of GCHQ, Robert Hannigan, has expressed criticism over the Government’s stance on encryption technology. Hannigan described encryption as an “overwhelmingly good thing” and criticised plans by Home...
Read MoreThe National Audit Organisation (NAO) has expressed concerns over the response by organisations and the Government to cyber crime such as online fraud and said it was difficult to see...
Read MoreLeading barrister condemns proposals by May to fine internet companies for not doing enough to remove terrorist content from platforms. Max Hill QC, the terrorism legislation watchdog whose entire career...
Read MoreThe messaging app widely used in Russia has been threatened with closure if it does not comply with requests from Russian authorities. The Russian communications regulator Roskomnadzor has threatened to...
Read MoreBoth Houses of Parliament – the House of Commons and the House of Lords – have been hit by a “sustained and determined” cyber attack. So say cyber experts upon...
Read MoreThe International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is to hold a conference from October 17 to October 19 in Geneva, Switzerland on the issue of establishing standards for distributed ledger technologies. The conference,…
Figures released by Ofqual show that the number of year 11 students in the UK taking a GCSE in either computer science or information technology (IT) has fallen despite the...
Read MoreLeaked documents from activist group Wikileaks and as reported by the Daily Mail has shown that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has hacked a number of routers and has converted...
Read MoreFollowing the recent terror attacks in London which has thus far killed seven and has left 48 injured, Prime Minister Theresa May has called on internet companies to tackle terrorist...
Read MoreTransport for London (TfL) are due to hear bids from a number of telecommunications companies to provide 4G on the London Underground. It is believed that likely bidders include telecommunications...
Read MoreA Swiss court has convicted a man for his ‘likes’ on Facebook. The 45-year-old unnamed defendant was told by the court in Zurich that because he had a ‘liked’ a...
Read MoreAn appeals court in Berlin has recently ruled that a mother cannot gain access to her daughter’s Facebook account. Following the girl being killed by a train in 2012, the...
Read MoreThe EU has announced it will spend €120 million to extend Wifi across 6,000 to 8,000 municipalities, bringing Wifi to “every European village and every city” with free Wifi by...
Read MoreEx-GCHQ deputy director demands fines on social media firms that fail to remove “extremist” material
Brian Lord, the ex deputy director of intelligence and cyber operations at GCHQ, has suggested that social media companies should be fined if they fail to remove material deemed as…
The EU is to impose national quotas on streaming services. The EU is currently considering imposing a quota on streaming services, such as Netflix and Amazon Prime, to feature a…
European Union ministers have recently approved rules that would oblige companies such as Facebook, Twitter and Google to remove videos deemed as constituting “hate speech” or face fines. The move...
Read MoreA bill that would explicitly lay out the terms under which internet service providers (ISPs) can collect and distribute information on their customers and when they can get opt-in and...
Read MoreFollowing the WannaCry ransomware attacks which has affected over 200,000 computers in at least 150 countries around the world, a spate of emails purporting to be from internet service providers...
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