LINX Manchester

Whether you want to connect to partners, suppliers or customers in the north of England, or use Manchester as a digital base to send traffic around the whole of the UK, LINX Manchester can help.

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LINX Manchester

Interconnect at the UK’s digital and media hub

Manchester is one of the UK’s fastest-growing digital and media hubs, and home to some of the country’s most successful home-grown unicorns.

With LINX Manchester, you can join them and interconnect directly at the UK’s top digital city.

Join a fast-growing network of members, and keep your traffic centralised and ready to move across the whole of the UK quickly, safely and cost effectively.

Over 130 networks, active and peering
Average of 455Gbps of network traffic and rising
A hive for media, content and enterprise
An interconnected, redundant fabric where networks meet
Keep traffic local
The first 10GE port and the first service on a PeeringLAN with a speed of up to 4Gbps is included in the membership fee. This service can either be a Peering Service, MAPS, Private VLAN or a CUG service. Any additional service, or any service with a bandwidth above 4Gbps will be charged according to the published fees in addition to the Membership Fee.
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Joining LINX Manchester

Existing LINX members, head over to our portal to add a connection to LINX Manchester

Member Portal

An important element of global Internet traffic is called ‘peering’, which is usually the settlement-free exchange of traffic between individual service and content providers.

LINX was established to facilitate peering, and has done so very successfully for nearly 30 years. A key element of this is our mutuality – LINX is owned by the entities that it serves.

View our Traffic Statistics

Services available at LINX Manchester;

Bi-Directional Optical Transceiver

Unlike one-way fibre, bi-directional optics split light to allow data to be sent and received through a single fibre.

The benefits include: