The 2023 LINX Annual General Meeting will be held at the Manchester Central Convention Complex on 14:30 BST on Wednesday 17th May 2023.
The AGM will include the presentation of the 2022 annual report, 2022 accounts and financial results and auditors report. There will also be a vote on three Ordinary Resolutions plus the 2023 LINX Board election.
As a membership organisation, LINX operates and develops its strategy based on the feedback of its members. In this video LINX CEO, Kurtis Lindqvist, explains the importance of LINX members voting in constitutional meetings.
Confirmed candidates standing in 2023 LINX Board election are as follows:
Voting will remain open until 15:00 BST on Wednesday 17th May 2023, the day of the AGM itself.
Corporate representatives of LINX members will receive an official voting pack by email from Civica Election Services. This contains instructions on how to place your company’s vote in the election. You will need the voting codes from the pack to vote in the election. Please contact our Member Relations team if you have not received your voting pack (mr@linx.net).
If you have not already indicated that you will be attending this meeting, please register online.
The LINX Member Portal, and its self-service functionality, allows members greater control over the provisioning of services on their ports. The on-demand features simplify processes and frees up time for both the member, and LINX teams.
In the My Services section members can now select their individual network services and make specific edits such as changes to bandwidth, MAC address updates, change VLAN IDs, migrate between ports or move to new ports and, if no longer required, request the cancellation of particular products. See our recent technical blogs for a deeper dive into the options available.
Our Microsoft Azure Peering Service (MAPS) provides LINX members with a direct connection to any public Microsoft cloud service, including Microsoft Azure services, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Dynamics 365, or any other Microsoft service accessible via the public internet.
By routing directly through LINX’s infrastructure, you get a low latency connection, reliable uptime, and advanced security that simply isn’t possible when using public internet connections.
Watch our special explainer video to find out more.
As April came to a close, LINX were again out on their travel meeting the interconnection community around the world.
The 38th Euro-IX event in Cluj-Napoca in Romania, and East Africa Com in Nairobi, Kenya, were both held in the same hectic week but both were seen as great successes.
LINX CTO Richard Petrie (pictured far right) took part in a panel session with fellow IXPs at Euro-IX, discussing the practical implications of implementing the ISO27001 standard. Joining him in Romania were Holly Ruff, Anne Bates, Mo Shivji, and Tim Preston. Meanwhile, the team in Nairobi included Nurani Nimpuno, Halil Kama and Lynsey Buckingham. Nurani is pictured being interviewed for the event organisers.
LINX have two member meetings scheduled for the remainder of 2023. Please add them to your diary.
If you have any questions regarding LINX events, please forward them to hello@linx.net and we will be happy to help.
LINX make video playbacks from its member meeting available on the LINX YouTube Channel. These are a useful way of keeping up to date with LINX strategy and project plans if you are unable to attend events in person. In this clip we hear from Richard Petrie and Anne Bates from the LINX Technology team who discuss key investments for 2023, self-service developments, NOC performance, maintenances, operational issues and other planned work.
In a separate video, CEO Kurtis Lindqvist was also interviewed recently to talk about LINX’s regional exchange strategy.
If you have missed any of LINX’s live events or training sessions we make as many as possible available to watch again so please make sure you subscribe for updates.
Smartoptics Announced as LINX Nairobi Supplier PartnerSmartoptics, a leading provider of optical networking solutions, have further extended their partnership for LINX’s new interconnection hub in Africa. The facility in Nairobi will use the Smartoptics DCP-404 muxponder for cost-effective 400G DWDM.
Digital Realty and LINX have extended their long-standing partnership that will see Digital Realty’s leading colocation services made available to LINX’s expanding membership community.
Stelia Joins LINX in London and ManchesterLINX are pleased to welcome Stelia, powered by ICONIC Networks, as a member and reseller partner of their interconnection hubs in London and Manchester. Stelia are a new network, launched in 2021 and based out of London. They are present and live in 14 data centre locations across the UK including Slough, Manchester, and Birmingham.
For more LINX news, please visit the LINX website.
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As the UK’s largest association of network operators, LINX is uniquely well-placed to help you achieve your policy goals. Drawing upon the collective expertise of our 900+ members, we work to educate, inform and influence politicians and public servants on behalf of ISPs and network operators.
Internet Service Providers operate in a complex and uncertain regulatory environment. New domestic laws, EU directives and international treaties can make or break Internet business models. For your network to thrive, it is not enough to merely adapt to change – you need to be sure that the regulatory environment continues to support Internet innovation.
Our Public Affairs department can provide your business with a number of benefits, including:
To find out more about the services offered by the Public Affairs team, please visit the LINX website.
LINX continues to maintain strong numbers in what are challenging market conditions. Check out the numbers below to see across its platforms in the UK and internationally.
If you like stats like we do, take a look at the latest numbers on the LINX website.
In the first full episode of series four of LINXcast, we mark International Women’s Day 2023. This is an ideal opportunity to have a playback of our WomenTechConnect panel from the LINX117 member meeting.
It was a vibrant session entitled ‘New Opportunities – Learning to say YES!’ moderated by LINX’s very own Esther Cobbinah. She was joined by Isabelle Singh, Director of Computing and IT at Riddlesdown Collegiate, Olena Lutsenko , Director for the Black Sea Region, RETN, and Michelle Opiyo, Network Delivery Manager at Meta.
Also on the panel was Anne Bates, LINX’s Head of Exchange Platforms, who has done an amazing job in bringing in students to work at LINX and gain valuable tech experience.
You can watch the full session , including the Q&A, on the LINX YouTube channel.
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