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Peering

A single membership to the London Internet Exchange (LINX) provides you the fastest and simplest way to take control of your network traffic and establish low-latency connections with more than 950 global members.

What is Peering?

Peering has served as the primary method of exchanging internet traffic between networks for decades.

Connecting to an Internet Exchange allows you to establish peering with hundreds of other networks across a single physical port. Members can setup or remove bilateral peering sessions with networks without the need to reprovision circuits or order additional cross connects.

Benefits of Peering with LINX

  • Gain greater network resilience and lower latency
  • Increase control and enhance security of your network traffic
  • Connect directly via a single cross connect or remotely through one of our layer 2 reseller partners

 

Peering is available at all LINX locations.

 

Peering at LINX Includes:

  • Single mode fibre and optics for all ports
  • Support for 10G, 100G and 400G ports with fractional peering bandwidths available
  • LINX members receive a 10G port with 1Gbps of peering at all LINX peering LANs in the UK, US and Africa
  • LINX Protect provides RTBH based DDoS mitigation
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Bilateral and Multilateral Peering
To get the most out of peering, you need to connect to other LINX members and exchange traffic.
Multilateral peering using LINX Route Servers makes this simpler by using a single agreement or BGP session to connect you to tens of thousands of route prefixes. We recommend this service for members who need instantaneous traffic flows.

 

Remote Peering

Through our network of global carrier partners, you can still access LINX’s peering network even if you aren’t near a LINX-enabled data centre – so any network can peer at key LINX locations throughout the UK and US.

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Additional Services

Route Servers
The LINX route servers are a great way to start exchanging traffic with many networks, without having to negotiate individual peering agreements.

Route Collector

The LINX route collectors act as a monitoring and troubleshooting tool. As a LINX member network you can access route collector data through our Looking Glass service in the members’ portal.

Time Servers
Designed to synchronise NTP servers, our Stratum 1 time servers deliver highly accurate time from multiple sources, including GPS, DCF77, and MSF signals. In addition, we provide Stratum 2 NTP servers for internal networks and customers, eliminating the need to directly connect every device to LINX NTP servers.

Hear from Our Members & Associates

Peering Automation at Facebook

“Traffic on the internet travels across many different kinds of links. A fast and reliable way to exchange traffic between different networks and service providers is through peering…”

“Initially, we managed peering via a time-intensive manual process. Reliable peering is essential for Facebook and for everyone’s internet use.”

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Internet Society Explainer: What is Internet Peering?

Most peering agreements require the network operators to have the following:

  • a publicly routed autonomous system number (ASN),
  • one block of public IP addresses, and
  • a network edge router capable of running Border Gateway Protocol.

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