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LINX Network

With over 950 ASNs connecting from over 80 different countries worldwide, members of LINX network have access to direct routes from a large number of diverse international peering partners.

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London (LON1)

The LINX London Network consists of two separate high-performance Ethernet switching platforms accessible from 16 data centre locations.

 

  • Digital Realty, London LHR19, Cloud House West
  • Digital Realty, London LHR20, Sovereign House
  • Equinix, Harbour Exchange LD8
  • Equinix, Powergate, Acton LD9
  • Equinix, Slough LD4, LD5, LD6 & LD10
  • Digital Realty, London LON1, Hanbury Street*
  • Telehouse North
  • Telehouse North 2
  • Telehouse East
  • Telehouse West
  • Telehouse South new
  • Colt, Powergate (Transmission PoP – Single Homed)
  • Iron Mountain LON-1, LON-2 Slough (Transmission PoP – Single Homed)
  • Virtus, Hayes (Transmission PoP – Single Homed)

*Networks can also connect to the Digital Realty London LHR18, Oliver’s Yard facility from this location

 

London (LON2)

LINX’s disaggregated LON2 platform came into operation in the summer of 2018 with LINX being the first IXP anywhere in the World to implement such a system. The LON2 architecture, employing EVPN over VXLAN and featuring leaf-spine topology, uses IP Infusion’s OcNOS™ network operating system and switch hardware from Edgecore Networks.

  • Digital Realty, London LHR19, Cloud House West
  • Digital Realty, London LHR20, Sovereign House
  • Equinix, Harbour Exchange LD8
  • Equinix, Powergate, Acton LD9
  • Equinix, Slough LD4, LD5, LD6 & LD10
  • Digital Realty, London LON1, Hanbury Street*
  • Telehouse North
  • Telehouse North 2
  • Telehouse East
  • Telehouse West
  • Telehouse South
  • Colt, Powergate (Transmission PoP – Single Homed)
  • Iron Mountain LON-1, LON-2 Slough (Transmission PoP – Single Homed)
  • Virtus, Hayes (Transmission PoP – Single Homed)

*Networks can also connect to the Digital Realty London LHR18, Oliver’s Yard facility from this location

LINX Manchester

Interconnect at the UK’s digital and media hub

LINX Manchester is the interconnection hub at the heart of the UK’s fastest‑growing digital region. Providing a single meeting place for networks, keeping traffic local, boosting resilience, and powering the North’s booming tech and data economy

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 135 networks, active and peering
  • Average of 460Gbps of network traffic and rising
  • A hive for media, content and enterprise
  • Microsoft Azure Peering Service (MAPS) available at LINX Manchester
  • Get Low-Latency, Direct Access to LINX Manchester with a Free Cross-Connect from Lunar Digital

 

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LINX Scotland

 

LINX Scotland was set up to help enhance the UK’s internet infrastructure with the aim of keeping traffic local.

The exchange reduces the dependency on London and other major digital conurbations, giving them the benefit of lower local overheads. Faster more reliable digital services provide a fertile environment for SMEs which in turn, contribute to the regional digital economy, stimulating local growth.

LINX Scotland is located at two sites, Pulsant in South Gyle near Edinburgh, and DataVita Fortis in Airdrie, close to Glasgow. The sites are interconnected by two diversely routed links. The peering LAN itself is a VPLS instance which ensures fast failover should one of the links fail. LINX Scotland is not connected back to the LINX exchange in London as our mission is to keep Scottish traffic in Scotland.

 

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LINX Wales

 

Originally established in 2015 as IX Cardiff, LINX’s 4th regional Internet exchange point was set up with the support of Cardiff City Council and the staff of the Welsh Government.

Located in Vantage Data Centers, formerly Next Generation Data, in Newport. LINX Wales provides the complete solution for keeping traffic local.

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LINX NoVA

The London Internet Exchange launched LINX NoVA back in 2014, the demand from the peering community was there and the location ideal in the largest peering point in North America. LINX NoVA is not connected back to our exchange in London. It is our mission to keep traffic local as this gives the fastest exchange of traffic and as a result, the best service to our members.

Being data center neutral gives our members choice of colocation provider and carrier. It also enables us to improve our redundancy and increase the resilience of the exchange. Having chosen the best site for them our members are able to reach all other peers on the network regardless of which data center they are located in.

  • Ashburn is the communications gateway to Europe
  • 70% of the World’s Internet traffic passes through
  • The new BRUSA subsea cable terminates in the U.S. directly into the new Virginia Beach Landing Station, offering one of the lowest latency communication links between the US and Brazil.
  • 9 out of 10 of the top global content networks located in the region

 

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LINX Mombasa

Kenya’s Coastal Interconnection Hub

LINX Mombasa is a key interconnection hub on Kenya’s coast, providing networks with a strategic location for optimising traffic exchange across East Africa. Positioned at a major landing point for international subsea cables, it serves as a gateway for connectivity to Kenya and neighbouring countries.

As a standalone exchange, LINX Mombasa keeps local traffic local, ensuring efficient, low-latency interconnection. In partnership with iColo, LINX Mombasa is strengthening Kenya’s digital ecosystem for a growing internet community.

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LINX Nairobi

Your Interconnection Hub for East Africa

LINX Nairobi Network Map

 

Our first physical presence for LINX in Africa is now live!


We are excited to have built a future proof interconnection platform that can scale and grow with the regions digital demand.

LINX Nairobi is a multi-site interconnection hub available for networks to connect to from iXAfrica and Africa Data Centres.

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LINX Accra

The Gateway to Africa

We’re proud to launch our first interconnection hub in West Africa , LINX Accra!

This strategic platform brings world-class connectivity to Ghana, supporting the region’s growing demand for reliable, high-performance networking.

The IXP is available at Onix, PAIX, and Digital Realty data centres. This setup will provide redundancy and interconnectivity, allowing networks at either location to meet at LINX Accra via a single cross-connect to access peering services and more.

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Center3 Internet Exchanges - Powered by LINX

 

 

 

Center3 Internet Exchanges powered by LINX, unites digital business across the Middle East, Asia and Africa with open and direct access to regional and global networks from IX’s in Jeddah and Riyadh.

Jeddah IX powered by LINX, is built on a fully redundant switching platform located in a neutral secure Center3 data center, known as MG1 (MENA Gateway). It is a neutral Internet traffic exchange platform, that can link global networks, network operators and content providers from right across the GCC region.

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Connect via an IXP Partner

IXConnect enables remote connectivity between LINX and our trusted IXP partners. It provides a simple, reliable way to extend your network, reduce latency, and connect with new peers who are not available locally.

It also removes the need for multiple PoPs, making it easier than ever to expand your reach while maintaining efficient, low latency traffic exchange.

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