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The LINX124 member meeting and AGM will take place on Monday 2nd – Tuesday 3rd June 2025 at the NEW LOCATION, Convene 133 Houndsditch & online.
Why attend LINX124
- Networking Opportunities
- Knowledge Sharing
- Sponsors get Product and Service Exposure
- Marketplace Awareness
- Problem Solving
- LINX operation updates
LINX Agenda
Day 1 – 2nd June 2025
| Title | Time (BST) | Description | SpeakersEvent opens with a welcome lunch |
| Event opens with a welcome lunch | 13:00 | ||
| LINX meeting to begin: Day 1 | 14:00 | 14:00 | Jennifer Holmes, CEO, LINX |
| CEO Quarterly Update | 14:10 | In this update, Jennifer Holmes will provide insights into developments and progress since the last membership meeting. This will include internal changes, the growth of the IXes and the products, progress on shaping the next three-year strategy, a review of the membership agreement consultation, and other relevant topics. | Jennifer Holmes, CEO, LINX |
| Road to Pulsant Edge Fabric: Engineering Resilient, Low-Latency Connectivity Across the UK | 14:30 | As network demands evolve, the need for agile, resilient, and low-latency infrastructure is more critical than ever especially at the edge. In this session, we will introduce Edge Fabric, Pulsant’s software-defined interconnectivity platform that unifies data centre, cloud, and internet access across the UK.
We’ll explore how Edge Fabric delivers high-performance connectivity without operational complexity. We’ll cover the technical design behind our diverse national backbone, its integration with LINX and Megaport, and how dual-port, resilient architecture ensures continuous availability. Expect insights into how Edge Fabric enables seamless data centre interconnect (DCI), scalable IP transit, and secure cloud access plus a look at real use cases from Pulsant’s partner ecosystem. |
Antonio Cuadrado, Network Architect, Pulsant & Dan Blackwell, Product Manager, Network & Security, Pulsant |
| Excuse me, do you have the time? | 15:00 | Dive deep into the mechanics of timekeeping! Discover the differences between stepping and slewing, the precision of NTP, and the transport mechanisms of PTP. Explore peer-to-peer synchronization, PTP hardware requirements, and more. This presentation unveils the critical role of time in networks, ensuring accuracy and efficiency. | David Groves, DNS Engineer, Nominet |
| LINX AGM | 15:30 | Pieter Knook, LINX Chair | |
| LINX Finance update | 15:35 | Stay informed on key financial trends, market insights, and strategic updates. This session covers performance metrics, future outlook, and impactful financial decisions shaping LINX’s continued success and stability. | Andrew Fabian, CFO, LINX |
| 30 Minute coffee & networking break | 15:45 | ||
| Nokia DC Fabric | 16:15 | Expanding on Roman Dodin’s LINX120 containerlab demo, this session explores Event-Driven Automation (EDA) for fabric management. See automation in action with a live demo of EDA Playground, a free platform for coding and simulation in hardware description languages—perfect for inquisitive, self-starting LINX Members. | Korhan Kayhan, Consulting Engineer, Nokia |
| Meet the Chair | 16:30 | Pieter Knook, LINX Chair | |
| Full fibre wacky races 3 | 16:45 | A lot has happened in Alt-Net world since my Full Fibre Wacky Races presentation at LINX 122 in May 2024, and I aim to bring you right up to date with this presentation, picking up from where I left off last year. I’ll look at where the full fibre industry is today, based on my own views + views & stats from key industry players, and where it might go in the future. I’ll also share Zen’s strategic ambition to become the UK’s Alt-Net aggregator of choice. It’s still feeling like the Full Fibre Wacky Races, although on the subject of Alt-Net consolidation, it’s also feeling like a chess game. How will it play out? | Richard Tang, CEO, Zen Internet |
| ConneXions awards | 17:30 | Lynsey Buckingham, Head of Marketing, LINX | |
| LINX124 end of day 1 | 18:00 | ||
| LINX124 social | 18:30 | The Alice |
Day 2 – 3rd June 2025
| Title | Time (BST) | Description | Speakers |
| Registration opens – Refreshments available | 09:30 | ||
| LINX meeting to begin: Day 2 | 10:00 | Welcome and Introductions | Richard Petrie, CTO, LINX |
| LINX Product update | 10:10 | Mike Hellers, Product Development Manager, LINX | |
| Synthesizing Heterogeneous Telemetry to Optimize Peering Performance and Routing Security |
10:40 | Siarhei Matashuk, Genie | |
| LINX Technology update | 10:55 | Richard Petrie, CTO, LINX | |
| 30 Minute coffee & networking break | 11:15 | ||
| Getting Ready for Gaining Provider Led Business (GPLB) Switching – REMOTE PRESENTATION | 11:45 | Please note, this is a remote presentation | Angie Ford, iconectiv operativ TASK FORCE |
| Panel Session – The peering model of the future | 12:05 | With the potential growth of paid peering and other internet commercial models, what does the future of peering models look like? | Mark Daley (Moderator) – Epsilon Ben Nicklin – Vodafone James Bensley – Inter.Link Mike Hellers – LINX |
| Lunch | 13:00 | ||
| LINX Member Portal – self service functionality | 14:00 | Alam Gill, Product Owner, LINX | |
| Manchester the original, modern internet city – how did this happen? | 14:20 | Manchester, the ‘original, modern’ world industrial city, faced serious challenges 40 years ago. with massive industrial decline. In response Manchester City Council’s work on telematics, working with the University of Manchester, was central to its new Economic Development Strategy. Manchester is now up there with leading global cities achieving recognition as world class digital, and now ‘smart’, cities. | David Carter, University of Manchester |
| Evolution of Datacentre Optical Connectivity | 14:50 | This presentation will cover the development of 400G/800G pluggable optical transceivers used in intra and inter-datacentre applications. Additionally, it will offer a brief overview of emerging technologies, such as linear pluggable optics, and explore how 200G PAM4 per lane is expected to impact the advancement of 800G and 1.6T optical modules. | Tyron Johnson, Director of Solutions Engineering, Belden |
| Mental Health & Workplace Culture in Tech | 15:00 | René Fichtmüller, Flexoptix | |
| LINX124 end of day 2 | 15:50 |
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NEW LOCATION
For LINX124 we will be at a new location. LINX124 will be hosted at Convene 133 Houndsditch – click here for directions.
LINX Social
After the first day of the LINX Meeting, LINX invite all attendees to join us at a pub or bar close by. We will have a range of drinks and food on offer free of charge to all attendees. To gain access to the social, you must be wearing your badge (collected at event reception prior to the social) and have your social ticket (attached to your badge) on hand ready to give to our team at the door.
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