London Internet Exchange selects Ciena

Waveserver platform supports growing traffic exchange needs for LINX members.

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To provide its member organisations with improved peering services, the London Internet Exchange (LINX) has deployed Ciena^®’s Waveserver^® stackable data centre interconnect (DCI) platform, connecting its data centres throughout London. Waveserver enables LINX to support the growing traffic demands and dynamic applications of its internet content provider, service provider and wireless carrier members by quickly, reliably, and more economically turning up larger and multiple low-latency connections to its data centres.

A global leader of internet exchange points (IXP), LINX has 11 points of presences (PoPs) across London, with more than 740 members connecting more than 70 different countries. LINX offers its members cost-effective and high-capacity links between its data centres to efficiently exchange traffic between a large number of diverse international peering partners.

With Ciena’s Waveserver, LINX can provide multiple terabits of connectivity between its Harbour Exchange, Equinix LD5 and Interxion locations, enabled by the platform’s massive capacity and density—400 Gb/s of line capacity plus any mix of 10G, 40G or 100G of client Ethernet services up to 400 Gb/s, in a compact, one rack unit form factor.
LINX also benefit from the openness and programmability of Ciena’s Waveserver to design and build unique and customisable applications to evolve services based on its members’ needs.
In addition, to enable even faster turn-up of services, LINX utilised Ciena’s Emulation Cloud^TM, an open application development environment, to accelerate the creation and testing of new applications and also prepare for the deployment before the equipment was delivered.

London Internet Exchange selects Ciena

Waveserver platform supports growing traffic exchange needs for LINX members.

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