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In this issue of HotLINX...

Up Front 2
Research shows that nearly
2 million more Britons have
become active on the Internet
over the past 12 months.
CEO, John Souter, takes a
closer look at the stats.

LINX News 3
The 4th LINX Conspicuous
Contribution Award has
been presented to NIX.CZ
and CZ.NIC to recognise
their work on the BIRD
Router Server Project.

Member News 4 16
In the Member News section
we focus on Italian wireless
ISP E4A. We also feature
EuroTransit and the latest
members to join LINX
over the last few months.

Events 5 8
In Events we review the recent
LINX Outreach Meetings in
Stockholm and Leeds plus
we focus on PLNOG and the
work of the Polish Network
Operators’ Group.

Industry News 9-14

A packed Industry News
section features stories from
Renesys, RIPE NCC, ISOC,
Telehouse Europe,
Cable & Wireless and
Hurricane Electric.

LINX Meetings 12

Has your Network

In our usual LINX Meeting
round up we look back at
the LINX Council elections
at LINX69 and preview
the new venue to be used at
LINX70 in August.

In the Spotlight 15
withstood the
LINX Council member
Patrick Gilmore of Akamai
Technologies is asked the
Streaming Media Summer?
questions in our regular ‘In the
Spotlight’ feature. Turn to
page 15 to find out more.
Inside Story on pages 6 and 7
2 Up Front Jeremy Orbell
HotLINX Editor
[email protected]

Internet usage still on the up Editorial

LINX is entering a ‘new’
By LINX Chief Executive Officer, John Souter era in 2010
LINX has seen rapid growth over many years women and that the
now, with membership doubling since 2005 over 50s now make May I welcome you all to issue 22 of the
and peak traffic increasing by six times over up nearly a third of all LINX membership magazine, HotLINX.
the same period. At the time of writing, LINX Internet users. There is
Our cover story this edition focuses on
has 365 members in 52 countries, with 30 new a still a perception that
event traffic and how big news stories and
applications received during 2010 alone. It has the net is youth-centric
global sporting competitions can challenge
been very pleasing to watch LINX go from but this does not seem
even the most robust of networks.
strength to strength like this, and to be part of to be the case. Those
the way in which UK ISPs have responded to the in the 21-34 age range, As HotLINX went to press the FIFA World
ever growing demand for capacity - in response make up just 14% of Cup in South Africa had just come to
to the boom in consumer broadband take-up. all Internet users, and an end. Football’s premier tournament is
the 12-20 age group arguably an even bigger sporting occasion
New research conducted by the UK online
covers just 12%. than the Olympics and many people were
measurement company (UKOM) has shown
that over the last year, nearly two million more streaming live video of big games through
Of course, these figures are based purely on the
Britons have become active on the Internet. This their computers so they keep tabs on their
British market and there will certainly be variations
has increased the number of people online from favourite teams. The Wimbledon Tennis
in data in other regions, but the evidence suggests
36.9 to 38.8 million. championships also had an impact as did
that the whole of society is embracing the online political events such as UK General Election
What is particularly interesting about this world. Therefore LINX has to be ready to provide in May and the Budget a month later. All these
research, is the make up of the audience. The its members with the infrastructure it requires to events ensured traffic levels remained high for
statistics show that 62% of the 1.9 million who ensure its networks can meet the needs of their a considerable period time, in the UK at least.
have joined up over the last 12 months are customers in the future.
As part of a special two page feature

‘Marathon Effort’ from LINX

on event traffic, Patrick Gilmore, a LINX
Council member and Akamai’s Principal
Architect, assesses the impact these events

Chairman, Grahame Davies had on their network.

Another hot topic is that of IPv6. It is being

Comment
discussed more and more at industry events
When asked about the experience, Grahame around the world as the depletion of IPv4
said, “My knees started hurting after just
address begins to accelerate. HotLINX22
two miles and I had sore feet too. By 22
miles I wasn’t feeling too good at all but was is carrying two articles on IPv6, with Earl
determined to carry on. Those last few miles Zmijewski and Clinton Hepner at Renesys
were very, very tough”. highlighting that we are now reaching a
Grahame collected sponsorship for the run critical tipping point. Meanwhile, Hurricane
in aid of the Chickenshed Theatre. Grahame Electric are making it difficult to avoid the
commented: “I chose to support them for whole IPv4 exhaustion issue by providing a
several reasons, but chiefly because they are a series of counters for desktop and hand held
local organisation offering inspiring support and
devices counting down the number of days
opportunities for everybody interested in being
On the 25th April LINX chairman, Grahame Davies, until they all run out. Our graphic on page 14
involved with drama. They use the word “inclusive”
took part in the 2010 London Marathon. The which sums it up nicely. I have seen many shows just how little time there is left - so be
gruelling 26 mile run is a Great British sporting event presentations there, all of which feature fully abled warned.
that combines elite athletics, mass participation and people dancing and acting alongside people of all
record-breaking fundraising, all in one race. ages with mental and physical handicaps”. Please contact me or my colleague Megan
Nisbet with your stories and feedback by
The run began in Greenwich Park and took emailing us at [email protected]. You can also
Grahame has raised around £2,000 for the
competitors past London’s famous sights including use this address if you would like to request
Chickenshed Theatre charity. If anyone would like to
the Cutty Sark, Canary Wharf, the Tower of any additions to the mailing list.
add to the fund, please visit http://tiny.cc/g3c8r.
London, Nelsons Column, and the Millennium
Wheel, before finishing in front of Buckingham You can also read Grahame’s detailed account of the Jeremy Orbell,
Palace. Grahame managed to complete the course day by going to: HotLINX editor
in an impressive 4 hours and 26 minutes. www.tptb.co.uk/london-marathon-2010.html Tel: +44 20 7645 3505
 LINX News 3

LINX Recruitment LINX Award Presented to

New Employees Join
the LINX Engineering Team
NIX.CZ and CZ.NIC to Recognise
The LINX Engineering department is BIRD Route Server Development
undergoing a period of expansion in 2010.
LINX is pleased to announce
As part of this restructure five new team
that its Conspicuous
members have joined, with Tim Preston
Contribution Award has been
and Colin Silcock the first to be profiled in
presented to Ondrej Filip
HotLINX having both started earlier this year.
and his colleagues at NIX.CZ
and CZ.NIC following their
Tim Preston
outstanding work on the BIRD
Senior Network
route server project.
Engineer
Tim Preston started Route servers are designed
working in the Internet to allow multilateral peering
Industry over 15 years across an Internet exchange
ago. His first employment was with LINX point. In LINX’s case this
founder member Demon Internet and while means that new members The 4th LINX Conspicuous Contribution award was presented to
there, Tim worked his way up from Technical can quickly start exchanging Ondrej Filip by LINX Sales & Marketing Manager, Richard Yule, at the
Support to Senior Network Engineer. traffic with other members by NIX.CZ Working Group in Prague on 10 May 2010.
setting up a single BGP session
By 2006, Tim was a Senior Network
to the route server. This streamlining of the process BIRD began life as a university project at the
Engineer for Yahoo!, where his responsibilities
can be particularly important to smaller networks Faculty of Math and Physics at Charles University
included the day-to-day running of data
that may not have the resources to manage a large in Prague before going into full development
centre networks and the EU backbone. It
number of bilateral peering arrangements. under the support of CZ.NIC Labs at the end
was from this role that Tim joined LINX.
of 2008. The BIRD team now consists of Ondrej
Comment LINX members and prospective members have Filip, Libor Forst, Pavel Machek, Martin Mares and
When asked about joining LINX, Tim been particularly interested in BIRD because of its Ondrej Zajicek.
said: “I feel that LINX is an integral part ability to quickly realise the benefit of a connection
of the UK Internet infrastructure, and felt to the exchange. Networks can then immediately NIX.CZ is the largest neutral IXP in the Czech
that helping that run as smoothly and start to exchange traffic with other members as Republic and among top 10 largest European IXPs.
efficiently as possible would be rewarding.
soon as the LINX connection is live. For further information please visit: www.nic.cz
I’m really enjoying working with a bunch of
engineers with a great team spirit”.
BIRD is open source route server software, which CZ.NIC is a membership association which
has proved to have been of great benefit to LINX operates and promotes the .CZ domain and
Colin Silcock and other European IXPs. It is a fully functional projects beneficial to the Internet infrastructure in
Network Engineer dynamic IP routing daemon primarily targetted for the Czech Republic. You can read more about the
Colin Silcock, a 2008 UNIX-like systems. work of CZ.NIC at www.nic.cz
BSc Computer Science
Comment
graduate, previously
worked for LINX member LINX CEO, John Souter, said: “There’s no
Xtraordinary Networks as a Systems Engineer. doubt that BIRD is an important step forward
in route server technology and we are very
During his employment with the organisation,
happy with the enhanced reliability it offers us
one of Colin’s tasks was to help coordinate at LINX. Multilateral Peering saves networks
and configure their peering at LINX. a considerable amount of time in peering
negotiation because with a single agreement,
Comment a network can arrange peering with a group
Colin told HotLINX: “I really enjoyed the of peers all at once instead of negotiating with
network engineering parts of my previous each party individually.”
job and wanted to do more. When the role
at LINX become available, I felt like this was Mr Souter added: “The Conspicuous Contribution
the opportunity to step into a role where Award is presented to an individual or First presented in 2006, the LINX prize has
I would be doing exactly that. The large organisation who have demonstrated a previously been awarded to Clive Feather, Dr
amounts of traffic which the LINX network commitment to the development of LINX and to Richard Clayton and Nigel Titley. For further
deals with presents interesting challenges the industry as a whole. This makes it a perfect
information on the Conspicuous Contribution to
and I was keen to meet those challenges! opportunity for LINX to publicly thank everyone
who has worked so hard on the BIRD project.” LINX Award, please visit:
I’m really enjoying the job so far”.
www.linx.net/publicity/linxaward
4 Membership News
EuroTransit
Alternative Transparent
Layer 2 Connectivity Available
LINX member, EuroTransit, is pleased to
provide transparent layer 2 connectivity for
potential LINX members via the London
Internet Exchange’s LINX from Anywhere
service.
Comment

“EuroTransit would like to offer an

alternative method of connection to
prospective LINX members”, stated
EuroTransit’s Head of Network
Engineering Florian Hibler. “We can
offer this opportunity over our resilient IP/
Riccardo Losselli of E4A speaking at the European Peering Forum in Dublin in 2008. Since the beginning of MPLS backbone across Europe.”
that year the company established direct peering with over 1000 different networks.

LINX Member E4A

EuroTransit recently connected its first
member to the LINX network. The
customer was already present on LINX’s

Welcomes 1000th Peer

dual LAN infrastructure via another carrier,
but for redundancy reasons, they chose
EuroTransit as an independent carrier for
LINX member E4A is pleased to announce that of performance with no traffic volume limits or their backup circuit.
it has established 1000 peering agreements since filters, low latency connections, all combined
EuroTransit are part of the LINX from
January 2008. The Italian Wireless Internet Service with a low monthly cost up to half the price of
Anywhere program which is a very attractive
Provider operates in North-Eastern Italy, and comparable xDSL-based services. This was one
service for potential members from other
delivers wireless broadband and VoIP services, and of the reasons why E4A decided to peer directly
countries. It can reduce costs, as they don’t
FTTH to its customers. through LINX.
need to place equipment or buy appropriate
Currently, more than 90% of E4A’s traffic passes Another essential support for the peering activity connectivity in London.
through direct peering and the company is present at E4A is Euro-IX - www.euro-ix.net - which Comment
at a number of Internet Exchanges. While E4A has features tools such as the peering matrix that “We have been working with LINX
been able to directly peer with some 350 different have enabled E4A to target Internet exchanges for a number of years now and the
networks since joining LINX, around 75 of these that will be most effective in helping them reach understanding we have built up means
are exclusive at LINX and not through any other their peering goals. that we are able to jointly make things
happen in a short period of time.”,
IXP. This was many more than E4A expected, and Comment
Florian Hibler said.
has resulted in great performance increases and Riccardo added: “Of course, reaching
reduced latency for content streaming. 1000 peers would not have been possible
More information on the LINX from Anywhere
without the peering community as a whole.
Comment There is no doubt that LINX has played an service can be viewed on the LINX website:
Riccardo Losselli, Chief Executive Officer at important part in this success as they have www.linx.net/join/linxanywhere.html.
E4A, said: “Besides being a very nice headline always sought to improve on their network
performance and services. We’ve certainly EuroTransit also provide housing, IP transit
figure, 1000 peers both greatly improves our
network performance, and benefits us with enjoyed the benefits of their membership and transport services starting from
considerable cost savings. More importantly it growth over the last two years with the 1 Mbp/s to n*10 Gbp/s. Their IP/MPLS
clearly shows that even a small company like additional opportunities to peer and have also backbone spreads across Europe enabling
us, if willing, can peer widely.” seen their annual price cuts reduce our overall
them to even serve regions of Northern,
peering costs considerably.”
Southern and Eastern Europe. Currently
E4A’s services are typically available where no they are covering 15 countries with 21 PoPs
broadband access, or even phone lines, exist at For more information on E4A please visit: connected to their network.
all. Customers have come to expect a high level www.e4a.it Comment
For more information please visit
www.euro-transit.net/network.php
or contact them via email using:
[email protected].
 Industry Events 5

Outreach Meetings
LINX heads to Stockholm and Leeds
for first outreach meetings of 2010
LINX enjoyed another successful outreach event
- in snowy Stockholm - back in March. Along Member Meetings
with staff from the Swedish Internet Exchange
(NETNOD), members of the LINX Sales &
Outreach days offer great
Marketing team, Richard Yule and Jennifer Atherton
networking opportunities
met representatives from IP Only, Phonera, Gyron,
LINX has been staging special member
Telia and Spotify. Discussions covered the latest
outreach meetings for two years and they
developments at LINX plus a review of the
continue to grow in popularity. It is not
Internet industry in Sweden.
always possible for organisations to attend
Guests from five organisations were present at the
A second outreach event swiftly followed with a the quarterly membership meetings in
Stockholm event including Swedish IXP, Netnod.
meeting with members and prospects in Leeds in London for a number of business reasons.
Northern England. This is why LINX makes the effort to
The Leeds outreach event took place in early April
Comment visit different regions to in order to keep
was well attended by members and prospective
members informed of what is happening at
Jennifer Atherton was again present on behalf members alike.
of LINX. She told us: “It’s always good to the exchange and to encourage networking
meet up with our members. It is the third time Representatives from Aql, Ioko, Janet, Ask4, York between local members.
the North of England has hosted an outreach Data Services and Exa Networks were all present
meeting following our visits to Rochdale and Discussions are informal and relaxed and
along with other networks in the region interested
Sheffield and we hope to do more in the future.” cover a diverse range of topics such as the
in what’s happening at the exchange.
LINX network, regulatory affairs and recent
sales and marketing activity.

While the majority of events have so far

centred on the UK, the Stockholm event
represented the second time a meeting had
been staged in Europe. The first overseas
outreach day took place in Paris in June
2009 and it is hoped that many more can
be organised in the future.

Information
If you would like to know more about
LINX outreach days please contact
LINX Business Development Executive
Jennifer Atherton via email at
[email protected] or by telephone on
The Leeds outreach event took place in April and was well +44 20 7645 3522
attended by members and prospective members alike.
6 Inside Story
‘Planning ahead key for covering event traffic
surges’ says Patrick Gilmore of Akamai
At the LINX69 meeting in May, Patrick Gilmore,
LINX Board member and Akamai’s Principal Akamai’s UK General Election Traffic
Architect, was asked to speak about the impact
on Akamai traffic during the UK general election. 200
150
This later led to a bigger discussion on event
100
specific traffic generally and why LINX members 50
should plan well in advance to be prepared for 0
any unexpected peaks and surges on their own Wed 19:25 Fri 13:20 Sun 07:15 Tue 01:10 Wed 19:05
networks.
The above graph show that on Friday 7 May, traffic across several news sites on Akamai peaked
Akamai, which at its core is based on applied at 153.29 Gb/s as the results from the UK election came in.
mathematics and networking algorithms, has
transformed the chaos of the Internet into
a predictable, scalable, and secure platform
for business and entertainment. The Akamai
EdgePlatform comprises 65,000 servers
deployed in 70 countries, and continually
monitors the Internet for trouble spots and
overall conditions. Akamai uses that information
to intelligently optimize routes across the
Internet for faster, more reliable delivery. On
Fri 30 Apr Fri 7 May Fri 14 May
any given day, Akamai serves 15-20% of all Web
traffic. The second graph shows how Akamai’s traffic compared on three successive Fridays and the
peak following the election on Thursday 6 May can clearly be seen.
Speaking as a US citizen, Patrick Gilmore
Both these graphs were featured in Patrick Gilmore’s presentation at LINX69 in May.
was ideally placed to look at the pattern of
traffic during the UK election without any
preconceptions of what it might be. Patrick told streams, the 1.5Mb/s stream is not only more
Comment
HotLINX: bits per second, but people are watching it for
“There was no doubt that our LINX
up to 10 times as long as that over 384K.
Comment connection was higher but it wasn’t
“What surprised me is the peak was on Friday, happening at our peak time. As we had Comment
not Thursday. Apparently UK election results already prepared for other large scale events
“Companies who stream events such as the
are not available the same day as in the US, in June including the World Cup in South
World Cup obviously love this trend because
so people may have been trying to find the Africa and the Tennis at Wimbledon, we had it enables them to show more commercials
results the next day during working hours, already made the necessary upgrades to and acquire more subscribers etc. It’s basically
causing the spike we saw.” cover any larger than expected surges. how they monetise their content. For Akamai
it means we have to plan further and further
“What we did see at election time was traffic
ahead to make sure the customer gets the
The increased traffic volumes were not just go down on some video streaming sites but
service they expect.”
confined to the announcement of the results up on news sites. During the spike, we saw
other streaming sites’ traffic drop. This implies Patrick concluded, “What’s important for
however, as traffic remained above the norm for
the users coming to the news sites were us from a LINX perspective is to know if our
around three days. People were continuing to shifting from other sites. It was not all new peers are seeing any unusual patterns in how
follow the news online on how the new coalition traffic, there was some balance. However, traffic is passed during the big events. That’s
government was to be formed and who was traffic was still much higher than normal.” when we need to speak to each other make
going to be in the Cabinet. sure our settings are correct so we are ready
for the next time.”
It is believed that the UK election was the largest So what level of bandwidth are viewers using to
streaming event in UK history beating previous watch these video streams? Not surprising the
If you would like to know more about Akamai
major events such as the 2008 Olympics. At demand for better picture quality is increasing,
please visit their website: www.akamai.com
its height, Akamai peaked at 153.29Gb/s for all but with that users are beginning to access
traffic over news sites that day (see graph) which the service for longer as it becomes more like Any queries regarding peering at Akamai should
in actual fact didn’t affect Akamai’s network too TV. Patrick tells us that Akamai have found that be directed to Patrick Gilmore at
much as Patrick explained. in comparing 1.5Mb/s, 768K and 384K speed [email protected]
 Event Traffic 7

Sports Traffic
World Cup Football and
Wimbledon Tennis
While Patrick Gilmore’s presentation at
LINX69 focused primarily on the traffic seen
during the UK General Election he was also
keen to stress that there were other major
events that could potentially have an impact
on members’ networks.

At the May LINX meeting the FIFA World

Cup was just three weeks away with the
Wimbledon tennis tournament due to start
soon after. What did Akamai expecting to
see happen on their UK ports during the Sport and Politics mix in
Summer Internet Traffic Surge
sporting summer?
Comment
Patrick told LINX69 delegates, “If
customer predictions are correct, then There is an old phrase that says that sport and We spoke to Trefor Davies at LINX member,
every single port Akamai has in the UK politics don’t mix but they certainly did between Timico, and asked what they had seen in their
will be running at well over 50% capacity, the 22 and 24 June and in quite a remarkable way. traffic stats during this period.
with some even over 80%, during June.
Comment
With this in mind it makes sense that As George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer,
other LINX members should seriously Trefor told us, “The World Cup had a major
to the House of Commons began his Budget
consider upgrading their ports as a wave impact on our streaming traffic particularly
speech on the afternoon 22 June, two tennis
of traffic is likely to be coming your way.” during the England-Slovenia game which was
players, American John Isner and French qualifier up by 357% on normal levels. This was even
Nicolas Mahut, were preparing for a first round higher than the peak traffic we saw reported
Indeed, many members were already
match at Wimbledon in what was to become the for those watching the Budget online the day
committing themselves to measures to before which itself had seen a record 309%
longest match in tennis history. The match began at
protect themselves with port upgrades increase for us.”
6:13pm on Tuesday evening and wasn’t completed
on their networks to cover the expected
until 4:48pm two days later after a total playing
surges even if the scale of the peaks were Events like the election, World Cup and
time of 11 hours and 5 minutes.
unknown at the time. Wimbledon are big news but educated
While the match wasn’t of any great significance to predictions can be made to assess what impact
Changing habits in
viewers in terms of who was playing,the sheer fact they are likely to have purely because we
TV and Internet usage
that the final set finished with an incredible score know when they are going to take place. Often
There appears to be a change in the way
of 70 games to 68 in Isner’s favour kept the public problems can arise when the unexpected
that people are using the Internet and
hooked until the end. What was also grabbing happens, such as a natural disaster, which can have
television. Where once it was a ‘one or the
people’s attention at this time was the finer detail an impact on traffic instantly as the population
other’ activity, users often now have the TV
of the first post-election Budget and the must-win rushes to their browser to see what’s happening.
on in the background while browsing on
England match against Slovenia in South Africa Larger networks such as Akamai in particular
their laptops or mobile devices. Different
which took place on Wednesday afternoon. plans ahead by having a great number of servers
large scale events such as the Grand Slam
in many different locations. As a result the
tennis and the football in Africa can now All three events were largely intertwined in
unexpected can be, to some extent, catered for.
be followed simultaneously. With more and that there were key periods in coverage that
more content available online this pattern overlapped and that the majority of it occurred To discuss your LINX port upgrade options please
of behaviour can only increase. during office hours. email: [email protected]
8 Industry Events

Network Operator PLNOG5

The Fifth Polish Network

Groups in Focus: Poland Operators’ Group Meeting

By Jakub Kozioł,
PLNOG - the Polish Network Operators’ Group The first PLNOG took place on the 18 and 19 PROIDEA Foundation
- was initiated by the PROIDEA Foundation September 2008 in Krakow and welcomed 130 This autumn network administrators,
for Supporting IT Education back in 2008. This Polish and international delegates. employees responsible for infrastructure,
growing event for Polish network operators monitoring, maintaining and effectiveness of
Comment
came to fruition following conversations with the the networks as well as those who make
For further information on Polish Network
local ISP market which had expressed the need the decisions of implementing new network
Operators’ Group and its activities please
to set new standards of cooperation between visit the PLNOG website: www.plnog.pl solutions, will again gather in Krakow at the
telecom companies in Poland. next PLNOG Meeting.

PLNOG5 is the fifth edition of the only

Polish conference dedicated entirely to
telecommunication network issues. This year’s
meeting will take place on 21-22 October,
2010.

The conference is a part of Polish Network

Operators’ Group initiative that was started
PLNOG2
Warsaw, January 15-16, 2009 to enable effective cooperation between
Such was the success of the inaugral telecommunication and IT companies in
PLNOG event that a follow up was Poland. The goal is to share knowledge
arranged just four months later. In and exchange experiences about network
what was another full programme, technologies and implementations. PLNOG
discussions covered a range of takes the best examples of initiatives
topics including technologies for connecting network operators in Europe, the
IPv4 and IPv6 coexistence as well USA, Asia and the Middle East.
as Internet network neutrality and
peering. The Polish Network Operators’ Group
meetings are much more than just a
conference. PLNOG5 will provide a unique
PLNOG3 opportunity to meet specialists, who work
Krakow, 10-11 September, 2009
in companies engaged in building and
LINX Board member, Raza Rizvi, was
developing the Internet in Poland. PLNOG
on hand to present an update on
Conferences’ attendees work for both the
behalf of LINX to the delegates at
PLNOG3. To support the exchange’s biggest players on global telecom market, as
involvement, a special Polish language well as local providers.
version of the LINX membership
The participation of almost 400 people in the
brochure was made available for
fourth PLNOG meeting back in March and
download.
www.linx.net/files/join/LINX09-Polish.pdf their suggestions to organize events twice a
year, show that PLNOG is meeting the needs
of Polish network operators and that it has
PLNOG4 created an important meeting point for those
Warsaw, 4-5 March, 2010 working in the network industry.
LINX Sales & Marketing Manager,
Richard Yule, was present at During previous editions of PLNOG the
PLNOG4 to take part in a panel organising committee has invited several
session update from leading IXPs. foreign guests to share their network
Other presentation tracks covered knowledge and experience. We should
architectures and technologies, especially thank Paul Vixie, Stefano Previdi,
implementations and best practice John Evans, Fredy Kuenzler, Christian Maar,
models plus content delivery and Arno Meulenkamp and Randy Bush for their
scalable system paths.
invaluable contributions.
 Industry News 9

An IPv6 Tipping Point?

the IPv6 world visible from LINX is not completely
connected. At the end of March, we randomly
selected two global providers at LINX, call them
A and B. Considering their routing tables and
by Earl Zmijewski and Clinton Hepner, Renesys any potential covering routes, provider A had 30
IPv6 prefixes not reachable from B, while B had
To address the foreseeable exhaustion of IPv4 36% originate none. These are very low bars for 19 prefixes not reachable from A. (2,643 prefixes
address space, the IETF started looking into creating measuring success. Origination does not imply that could be reached from both.) In conclusion,
an “IP Next Generation” (IPng) protocol in 1992. the providers have IPv6 content, only that they lay while much of the machinery necessary for IPv6
After a six year gestation period, IPv6 was born claim to some IPv6 space or can pass along an IPv6 is currently in place, the content, the availability
with the publication of RFC 2460 in December routing announcement. and even the basic connectivity of the network
1998. Twelve years on, with the exhaustion of IPv4 continues to be lacking.
In short, if you possessed an IPv6-only device and
looming, are we any closer to an IPv6 Internet? The
had no way to NAT your way to the “real” Internet, For further information please visit:
various RIRs are projected to exhaust their IPv4
you’d probably be rather lonely. Even the part of www.renesys.com
allocations from IANA within two years. And with
over 4 billion mobile phones in use globally, each of
them potentially Internet-capable devices, the need
for IP addresses can only increase dramatically.

Among other things, Renesys collects both IPv4

and IPv6 routing data from various exchange points
worldwide, including LINX. From this data source,
we have seen a marked increase in allocated,
registered and routed IPv6 prefixes over the past
year. In addition, the number of Autonomous
Systems (ASes) observed originating IPv6 prefixes
has been on the rise. The graphs on this page show
the growth rates in these metrics over the past
18 months. A view into the IPv6 marketplace can
also be found in Renesys’ latest version of Market
Intelligence.

IPv6 is supported in all major modern operating

systems, including Windows, Mac OS and Linux, and
is enabled by default or easily activated. The ratio
of quad-A RR type queries to total DNS query
volume, now 15 – 20% on busy servers, provides
solid evidence of the increasing prevalence of IPv6-
capable client stacks.

While Google has supported IPv6 access to its

search engine since March 2008, this year it turned
on IPv6 support for YouTube, resulting in an
immediate and sustained jump in global IPv6 traffic.
And with over 15 million Internet subscribers,
Comcast has announced extensive IPv6 trials
starting in the second quarter of 2010. The biggest
players on the Internet cannot afford to have their
businesses constrained by lack of IP space and have
been at the forefront of IPv6 adoption. With major
content providers and ISPs enabling IPv6 transit and
popular operating systems turning on support by
default, is an IPv6 Internet now a reality?

Not really. We still have a very long way to go.

Of over 34,000 ASes in use on the Internet, only
just over 2,000 (around 6%) handle IPv6 prefixes
(i.e., the ASN is seen in the path of an IPv6
announcement). Of the top 100 global providers
according to Renesys’ Market Intelligence rankings,
only 28% originate more than one IPv6 prefix and

Images by Alberto Forero, Renesys

10 Industry News Jennifer Atherton
Business Development
Executive

DNSSEC and K-root

As the operator of the K-root sever, the RIPE The RIPE NCC will continue to publish the latest
Meet with LINX
Events to be Attended by
LINX Representatives
NCC has confirmed that, as of 24 March 2010, data and analysis related to DNSSEC and K-root via
K-root is now serving the signed root zone. RIPE Labs (http://labs.ripe.net/), a website dedicated LINX staff attend a number of industry
This was implemented as part of a staged global to innovative tools, measurements and analysis. events around the world every year. These
deployment of DNSSEC across the root zone include international network operator
system. Starting with L-root in January 2010, Resources from RIPE Labs groups, RIPE regional meetings as well as our
RIPE Labs also features a number of recent tools
the root servers began serving the signed root own LINX member meetings.
and articles including:
zone in batches in the form of a Deliberately
Resources Please take a look at the list below to
Unvalidatable Root Zone (DURZ), and on 15
July 2010 ICANN signed the root zone with real • A prototype of an XML-based interface see where you can meet with LINX
keys and published the root zone trust anchor. for parsing the RIPE Database’s RPSL representatives over the coming months.
output
• A reply size tester that determines the
The RIPE NCC has been supporting the maximum size of DNS response packets
LINX70
16-17 August 2010
efforts of ICANN for signing the root and, for a specific resolver London, United Kingdom
as the operator of K-root, is participating in a • An analysis of DNS priming queries to
Attended by: LINX staff & Board
coordinated deployment plan with other root DNSSEC enabled root servers
• An analysis of the differences in regional www.linx.net/LINX70
server operators. Together with these root
IPv4 and IPv6 allocation rates over the
server operators, the RIPE NCC is participating past five years
in coordinated data collection and analysis efforts • Pollution of the IP address range 1.0.0.0/8
EPF5
20-22 September 2010
to monitor the effects of the deployment of (1 /8) Cannes, France
DURZ. Attended by: John Souter, Jeremy Orbell, Neana
Singh plus other LINX staff

The primary focus of these efforts is to help the www.peering-forum.eu

RIPE NCC and the operator community detect
and solve any significant issues before 1 July 2010, Capacity Africa
after which ICANN is scheduled to sign the root RIPE Labs is available at: http://labs.ripe.net 21-22 September 2010
Nairobi, Kenya
zone with real keys.
Attended by: Jennifer Atherton and Megan Nisbet
www.capacitymedia.com/conferences-
RIPE NCC Survey events.asp

Certification of Internet Number Resources NANOG50

3-5 October 2010
Atlanta, USA
Attended by: LINX staff TBC
www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog50

RIPE61
15-19 November 2010
Rome, Italy
Attended by: LINX staff TBC
www.ripe.net/ripe/meetings/ripe-61

LINX71
22-23 November 2010
London, United Kingdom
As part of an ongoing project for providing Information Attended by: LINX staff & Board
digital certificates, based on Public Key www.linx.net/LINX71
Infrastructure (PKI), the RIPE NCC invites you More information about certification,
Web page will be available in October 2010
to participate in an online survey. We are keen including operational benefits and
to maximise feedback to this survey in order further details on the RIPE NCC survey,
to help us develop a toolset that will integrate is available in the RIPE NCC’s recent NANOG51
with operators’ workflow. Member Update (Issue 17, April 2010) 30 January - 2 February 2011
Miami, USA
The survey should take no more than ten This can be downloaded from:
minutes to complete and is available at: www.ripe.net/membership/newsletter Attended by: LINX staff TBC
www.ripe.net/certification/survey www.nanog.org/meetings/nanog51
 Industry News 11

“Are we there yet?”

IPv6 deployment momentum explored at IETF77
In what has become a regular fixture at Internet Panellists included Leslie Daigle (Chief Internet In related news, there have been several recent
Engineering Task Force (IETF) meetings, the Internet Technology Officer for the Internet Society), Geoff reports discussing so-called “pollution” of some of
Society held a lunch time briefing panel during Huston (Chief Scientist at APNIC), Jason Livingood the remaining unallocated IPv4 ranges, caused by
IETF77 in Anaheim, California in March. Following (Executive Director of Internet Systems Engineering networks using unallocated address ranges instead
up on ISOC’s 2009 panel “The Seven Stages of IPv6 at Comcast Cable), Dave Temkin (Network of the designated “private use” address space
Adoption” (IETF 74), this year’s “IPv6: Are we there Engineering Manager at Netflix), and Magnus specified in RFC 1918. One of the panellists, Geoff
yet?” explored the reasons for the progress of, and Westerlund (Researcher at Ericsson Research). Huston, has published an analysis of this issue in
momentum behind, IPv6 deployment. his article “Traffic in Network 1.0.0.0/8” in the latest
The panellists described multiple approaches to
Earlier this year, the number of unallocated IANA ISP Column:
measuring IPv6 use on the Internet today, and
IPv4 address blocks dropped below 10 percent http://isoc.org/wp/ispcolumn/?p=252#more-252
while there is no definitive measure – and it is
and exhaustion of the free pool can no longer be not necessarily meaningful to apply the same Information
ignored. It is also clear that decision makers are approaches used for studying IPv4 use – there are
increasingly motivated by additional reasons to strong signs of increased interest in, and deployment For other descriptions of this issue, see also:
deploy IPv6 – and making the move earlier rather of, IPv6. However, there still remains much work to • “Pollution in 1/8”, RIPE Labs
than later. Recent announcements by Internet be done to achieve wide-scale deployment. http://labs.ripe.net/content/pollution-18
network service and content providers, as well
as efforts by governments at the national and For full details of the panel, including an audio • “Awkward /8 Assignments”, Leo Vegoda
international level, suggest a significant increase in recording of the whole event, see: (ICANN)
the momentum behind the deployment of IPv6. http://www.cisco.com/web/about/ac123/
www.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/ipv6momentum
ac147/archived_issues/ipj_10-3/103_
A diverse group of experts on the panel shared
awkward.html
their real-life experiences with, and data on, IPv6,
and discussed the pressing need to adopt IPv6 for For more IPv6 information from ISOC, see:
the continued growth of the Internet as a platform http://InternetSociety.org/ipv6
for innovation.

Postel Legacy Lives On

Memory of Internet pioneer, Jon Postel, inspires
Kenyan technical academy
The legacy of late Internet pioneer Jonathan B. later led the building of CSNET
Postel is all around us: in many of the Internet’s – Peter J. Denning, David Farber,
core protocols; in the standards documented Anthony C. Hearn and Lawrence
within the RFC series; in the IANA function Landweber–and the U.S. National
Jon Postel, Internet visionary, 1943-1998
which maintains order in address allocation, the Science Foundation program
License: Photo by Irene Fertik, USC News Service. Copyright 1994, USC.
root zone, and protocol assignments; and in the officer and visionary responsible
collaborative approach that has been central to for encouraging and funding CSNET–Kent The work will be coordinated by Inveneo, and
the Internet model of development. Curtis. The awardees have now donated the the Postel Technical Academy will comprise
US$20,000 award to establish the Postel part of the Kendu Bay Community Knowledge
Now his name will be carried on by a new
Technical Academy in Kendu Bay. Centre, run by the local organization Rachuonyo
technical academy to be established in Kendu
Online Networks, and will be co-located with a
Bay, Kenya to develop technical skills and Comment
Cisco Networking Academy.
experience, and build the capacity of students “We believe it extends Jon Postel’s vision of a
to communicate, collaborate, and interact with broadly accessible Internet that brings people
together,” said Lawrence Landweber. “The
2010 Postel Award
people throughout the world.
Postel academy also continues the CSNET Each year, the Jonathan B. Postel Service Award
The Computer Science Network (CSNET) was legacy of empowering people around the is presented to an individual or organization that
world to communicate and collaborate through
awarded the 2009 Jonathan B. Postel Service has made outstanding contributions in service
the use and understanding of networking
Award, recognizing the pioneering work of the technology.” to the data communications community. For full
four principal investigators that conceived and details, see: www.isoc.org/postel
12 LINX Meetings
LINX69 AGM Meeting LINX Council
and Council Elections Two Council Members
Elected at LINX69
Despite news to the contrary in the last issue of Day Two (Tuesday 18 May) The LINX Council of Management is in
HotLINX, the Goodenough College was again the The event program on Tuesday included an effect the board of directors of the company
venue for the LINX member meeting in May. There update on RIPE policy from Nigel Titley and a and consists of the LINX CEO and six non-
was another packed agenda for the two day event: executive directors elected by the members.
quick-fire overview of current IPv6 issues from
Richard Yule (LINX), Riccardo Losselli (E4A) and
Day One (Monday 17 May) 2010 Council Elections
Neil McRae (Cable & Wireless).
The first day of the meeting featured the LINX At each AGM LINX holds elections for two
AGM and Council Elections which are covered places on this representative Council. The
ProLabs Transceivers presented on behalf of
in detail elsewhere on this page. Other sessions term for those elected is currently three
silver sponsors hardware.com on the subject of
included a comprehensive stats update, a lightning years at which point the member is required
WDM Pluggable Optics, while Kurtis Lindqvist
talk by Patrick Gilmore on the UK general election to retire from their position and stand again
spoke on Autonomica who are a prospective if they so wish.
traffic seen by Akamai, plus a presentation on LINX associate member.
40 and 100 Gigabit Ethernet from gold sponsor Three candidates had confirmed that they
Brocade. Also speaking were Dan Lowe of UK Also featured were updates from LINX staff would be putting themselves forward for
Solutions and LINX CEO, John Souter on the topic including CEO, John Souter, Head of Public election at the LINX69 AGM back in May.
of Carbon Reduction. Affairs, Malcolm Hutty and an overview of These were incumbent Council members
engineering activity from LINX CTO, Mike Neil McRae and Simon Lockhart plus Thomas
LINX knows how much importance members and Hughes and engineer Tim Preston. Mangin of Exa Networks. Following a lively
delegates attach to the networking opportunities hustings session and voting, Neil McRae and
at LINX meetings, which is why it extended its The full LINX69 agenda plus presentations and Thomas Mangin were duly elected.
after-event drinks to enable interaction with peers an audio video archive (LINX members only) are
for those unable to attend the evening social. available here: www.linx.net/linx69 Thomas Mangin
Thomas is currently the
Technical Director of Exa
LINX70 Member Meeting to be held Networks, which he co-

at London’s Congress Centre

founded back in 2003. The
majority of his day-to-day
activities involve a mixture
Congress Centre on Great Russell Street in The Congress Centre has so far been secured of software and network
London’s West End has been chosen to stage the for both the August and November meetings development plus detailed
business administration.
upcoming LINX70 member meeting this August. with options being considered to extend this
It has recently benefited from a £4.2 million arrangement into 2011. LINX Council
refurbishment and is now one of central London’s “I am pleased to be joining a well
leading conference and events venues. LINX70 (Monday 16 & Tuesday 17 August)
established, and growing organisation but
Registration for LINX70 is now open. The agenda I do not intend to shy away from any hard
Some of LINX’s longer standing members is available to view on the LINX website. questions that LINX faces in the coming
will recall this as the site of a number of LINX Further Information years. I am sure that my experience will
meetings around seven years ago. However, such be beneficial to the LINX board.”
For full LINX70 event details, including travel
has been the growth at the Exchange in recent and accomodation guides, please visit:
years LINX will now conduct proceedings from www.linx.net/linx70
Further information on the Congress Centre LINX Council 2010/11
the main Congress Hall instead of the far smaller The LINX Council for the coming year is
can be found at: www.congresscentre.co.uk
Council Chamber used previously. confirmed as Grahame Davies (Chairman,
TPTB/Lumison), Raza Rizvi (Vice Chairman),
Stephen Wilcox (Google), Neil McRae (Cable
& Wireless), Patrick Gilmore (Akamai), John
Souter (LINX Chief Executive) and now,
Thomas Mangin (Exa Networks).

LINX Council
For further background reading on the
LINX Council including biographies from
each member please visit:
www.linx.net/about/council
(member log-in required)
 Data Centre News 13

LINX members set to benefit from new

£80 million green Telehouse data centre
The volume of global Internet traffic is at an all ICT services has enabled the two organisations footprint of the building, such as exporting waste
time high thanks to the uptake of new data-rich to strengthen their sixteen-year relationship, heat for use in nearby homes and businesses.
services. Analyst firm Tier1 found that demand which is expected to develop as LINX and This move has received approval from the
for colocation space to support these services Telehouse work together over the coming years. press, analyst community and local government
among public and private companies within authorities and will see Telehouse save up to
the IT, communications and Internet sector LINX members set to benefit 1,110 tonnes of CO2 emissions per annum. This
has increased 14 percent year-on-year, while will provide up to nine megawatts of power for
Comment
supply only rose by six percent. To meet this the local neighbourhood with an energy saving
“We are very excited to announce the
requirement and ensure the data is securely equating to boiling 3,000 kettles continuously.
opening of the new facility,” said Dionne
managed and stored, the UK desperately needs Aiken, Marketing Manager, Telehouse. “We The combination of these new green services
additional, secure colocation space. are confident that Telehouse West will provide
with access to high-capacity colocation space
LINX members with a truly innovative and
April saw LINX partner Telehouse address this comprehensive international service, both now within the capital, means that 2010 could be the
demand with the opening of Telehouse West, a and into the future, allowing them to expand most exciting year to be a LINX member.
new £80 million flagship data centre in the heart and launch new services as they require.”
of London. The new data centre will provide Tier 1, Internet Datacenter Supply Report 2009

19,000 square metres of colocation space and Helping members meet the Carbon Reduction
Information
the latest managed ICT services (including Commitment (CRC) legislation further to
system integration, network services and ICT providing a range of secure and resilient For further information on Telehouse West
consultancy) necessary for LINX members to colocation services, Telehouse West will help please visit www.telehouse.net or contact:
roll out new products and subsequently generate UK-based LINX members achieve their green Dionne Aiken, Marketing Manager
revenue. commitments in line with the forthcoming CRC T: +44 20 7512 0550
legislation. It will do so by employing a variety E: [email protected]
Telehouse has ensured its new data centre meets of innovative solutions to mitigate the carbon
the requirements of members by working closely
with LINX throughout the development of the
facility. The ability to now offer members access
to high-capacity colocation space and the latest
14 Industry News
Cable&Wireless Worldwide Hurricane Electric
Now Offer High Quality
IPv4 and IPv6 stat counters
available for multiple platforms

Service on ADSL Hurricane Electric has launched a series of

applications, widgets and JavaScript snippets
to display the estimated exhaustion time for
IPv4, and the growing adoption of IPv6.

At the time of going to press (mid-July 2010)

it was estimated that there was less than
a year remaining until IPv4 addresses run
out. So these applications are an important
reminder of how little time there is left to go.

Cable&Wireless Worldwide’s ADSL Service, To take this a step further, Cable&Wireless have
Access Connect, now offers wholesale partners now added three new Class of Service (CoS)
the type of Quality of Service (QoS) features features, each of which can be configured to the
traditionally only available with more expensive end user:
Features
access types, such as Partial Private Circuits
(PPC) and Ethernet. Real Time CoS
To support applications such as
Most ADSL service providers offer throughput Voice Over IP (VOIP).
targets based on traffic volume forecasts and Enhanced Data CoS
capacity planning rules. But, when there is a For critical data applications such as Citrix.
sudden surge in download usage, for example
Standard Plus CoS
when a popular sporting event is being watched Allowing you to prioritise packets within
online, individuals’ bandwidth can be reduced to your existing Standard CoS.
an unacceptable level.

One of the strengths of Access Connect is its These additional features are intended to
ability to offer assured rates - meaning it can help reduce access costs while still supporting
guarantee a minimum bandwidth even during services such as IP-VPN Access, SIP Trunking and
periods of the day when congestion is at its Premium Broadband services.
worst. This is especially important for businesses Information
which need to ensure that applications can If you would like to find out more
run efficiently at all times, even during peaks in about how you can reduce costs and
consumer usage. increase productivity by using the Access
Connect service, please contact your
Cable&Wireless Worldwide account
representative or visit the Cable&Wireless
website at www.cw.com

Applications
The counter software is available for:
• iOS Application
• Android Application
• Webpage Widget
• iGoogle Gadget
• Google Desktop Gadget
• Windows Vista / 7 Gadget
• Mac OS X Dashboard Widget
For further information and downloads
please visit: http://ipv6.he.net/statistics
 In the Spotlight 15

60 Second Interview
10 quickfire questions for LINX
Patrick Gilmore
Board Member, Patrick Gilmore

What’s the first thing you do when you get

into the office?
Akamai Technologies
Say hi to everyone, then toast a pop-tart.

What’s your favourite gadget at the

The ‘In the Spotlight’
moment?
feature is where HotLINX speaks with leading My job
My iPad 3G. members of the Internet and LINX community. allows me to attend many
LINX Chairman, Grahame Davies and fellow conferences around the globe, and I promote
What’s the best thing about your job? Board member, Steve Wilcox, have already faced LINX whenever possible which has led me to
questions from HotLINX editor Jeremy Orbell represent the exchange at many international events.
All the friends I get to see around the world
and this time it’s the turn of another member
because my job allows me to travel. As I said earlier, my job also brings me into
of the LINX Board - Patrick Gilmore of Akamai
contact with networks of every size on every
Technologies.
What’s your favourite book or song continent. This allows me a perspective I feel is
(or both!)? Based out of the USA, Patrick has been on the useful to LINX as we bring on more International
LINX Board since 2006 and was re-elected for members. My original platform in 2006 mentioned
My favorite song changes, but at the moment
another term at last year’s Annual General Meeting. that the Internet is not just the UK, and bringing
is it current “Adagio for Strings in G Minor”,
international members onto the platform
written by Tomaso Albinoni, and I like the Jörg
Hi Patrick. Please tell us about your benefits the UK members. Of course, bringing
Faeber rendition. Lest anyone think I only like
current role in the industry? the international members to LINX helps the
classical music, a short while ago my favorite international members as well!
was “Put Your Lights On” by Santana, featuring I am Principal Architect for Akamai Technologies,
Everlast. Oh, and I recently went on a tear which is the world’s largest Content Distribution How do you see LINX developing in the
buying a ton of Lady Gaga videos. Network. My group is responsible for defining future?
our peering strategy, deployment into nearly 50
Pet hate? IXes on five continents, as well as helping shape Having more international members has certainly
Akamai’s capacity, colo, and transit requirements broadened the scope of the membership and long
Hypocrisy.
world-wide. may that continue. LINX is uniquely positioned
Favourite website? - both technically and geographically - to help
As most readers know, I am on the board of LINX.
I am also on the board of the Seattle Internet networks across the world interconnect, which is
Not sure I have one. Maybe Google since I why more and more networks from outside Europe
Exchange, and active in many other exchanges.
use that instead of bookmarks?
are applying. We could not have grown to have the
Akamai has the most open peering policy on the largest member base of any Internet Exchange by
What annoys you? Internet, and we aggressively try to interconnect
attracting only networks from the UK or even only
with every AS, no matter the size or type. We
Hypocrisy. (At least I’m consistent.) those from the EU.
have peering with over 1200 unique ASNs. In
addition, Akamai places servers inside eyeball LINX is looking at relatively
In a perfect world, what would you be doing?
networks whenever possible. We have servers in untapped markets such
That is a dangerous question, my wife might nearly 1000 networks in over 1800 POPs in over
as Africa and South
read this.... But leaving that aside, I have a 70 countries. This means that I am in contact with
America which
pretty good job right now. hundreds of networks which are not at Internet
just grows LINX’s
exchanges which obviously can be of great benefit
to LINX. geographical reach
What’s caught your eye recently?
still further. We are
The Leaf by Nissan (an electric car).
How do you see your role on the LINX always looking at the
Board and what does it mean for the latest technology to
Internet innovation that interests you at the
organisation? see how we can build
moment?
those into the network,
I have been on the LINX Board since 2006 and
I know it sounds trite, but CDNs. I honestly so I believe the future is
I was really pleased to be re-elected for another
don’t believe we can scale to millions of looking very good
term last year. As I am the only LINX Council
people watching HD video with “network” indeed.
member based outside the UK, it does mean
technology. I guess you could say I actually
getting to every Board meeting in person is not
believe in the company where I work. Which
always easy. But I persevere, and the American
is probably a good thing. Airlines love me for it.
16 Membership News Jennifer Atherton
Business Development
Executive

Sales Update
New Members Spring 2010 For the Period
February - June 2010

AfricaINX Gandi Sargasso Networks

ASN: 37179 ASN: 29169 ASN: 42579
Country: South Africa Country: France Country: UK
Network: NSP Network: NSP Network: NSP
Policy: Open Policy: Open Policy: Open
IPv4 addresses: 195.66.225.137 IPv4 address: 195.66.225.20 IPv4 addresses: 195.66.225.131
195.66.227.137 195.66.227.131
IPv6 address: 2001:7f8:4::71f1:1
IPv6 address: 2001:7f8:4::913b:1 IPv6 addresses: 2001:7f8:4::a653:1
Web: www.gandi.net 2001:7f8:4:1::a653:1
Web: www.africainx.net Email: [email protected] Web: www.sargasso.net.uk
Email: [email protected] Tel: +33 1 70 39 37 55 Email: [email protected]
Tel: +27 112 664 000 Peering db: Yes Tel: +44 845 034 5029
Peering db: Yes Peering db: Yes
IX Reach
Bahnhof Warwick Net
ASN: 43531
ASN: 8473 Country: UK ASN: 48961
Country: Sweden Network: NSP Country: UK
Network: NSP Policy: Open Network: Cable/ISP
Policy: Selective IPv4 address: 195.66.224.217 Policy: Open
IPv4 address: 195.66.225.134 IPv4 addresses: 195.66.224.113
Web: www.ixreach.com 195.66.226.113
Web: www.bahnhof.net Email: [email protected]
Email: [email protected] Web: www.warwicknet.com
Tel: +44 845 217 8577 Email: [email protected]
Tel: +46 855 577 189 Peering db: Yes
Peering db: Yes Tel: +44 24 7699 7222
Peering db: Yes

Bluetiger MWEB
ASN: 10474
Xifos
ASN: 47480 ASN: 34442
Country: UK Country: South Africa
Network: Cable/DSL/ISP Country: UK
Network: Content Network: Cable/IISP
Policy: Open Policy: Open
Policy: Open
IPv4 addresses: 195.66.225.132 IPv4 address: 195.66.226.149
IPv4 addresses: 195.66.225.135
195.66.227.132 Web: www.mweb.co.za 195.66.227.135
Web: None Email: [email protected] IPv6 addresses: 2001:7F8:4::868A:1
Email: Tel: +27 11 340 7267 2001:7F8:4:1::868A:1
[email protected]
Tel: +44 845 539 0084 Peering db: Yes Web: www.xifos.net
Peering db: Yes Email: [email protected]
Tel: +44 207 100 2515
Nuco Technologies Peering db: Yes
Cablenet
ASN: 45014
ASN: 35432
Country: UK
W-IX
Country: Cyprus
Network: Content ASN: 50384
Network: Cable/ISP
Policy: Open Country: UK
Policy: Open
IPv4 addresses: 195.66.225.55 Network: ISP
IPv4 addresses: 195.66.225.136 Policy: Open
195.66.227.55
Web: www.cablenet.com.cy IPv4 address: 195.66.224.25
Email: [email protected] Web: www.nucotechnologies.com
Web: www.w-ix.com
Tel: +357 22 399590 Email: [email protected]
Email: [email protected]
Peering db: Yes Tel: +44 844 745 1300 Tel: +44 20 3287 1024
Peering db: Yes Peering db: No
EMC
ASN: 27822 PTCL York Data services
Country: USA ASN: 17557 ASN: 43013
Network: NSP Country: Pakistan Country: UK
Policy: Open Network: ISP Network: Cable/DSL/ISP
IPv4 addresses: 195.66.225.45 Policy: Open
Policy: Selective
195.66.227.45 IPv4 addresses: 195.66.225.139
IPv4 addresses: 195.66.225.133
195.66.227.139
Web: www.emc-corp.net Web: www.ptcl.com.pk Web: www.yorkdataservices.com
Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]
Tel: +1 800 383 7137 Tel: +92 333 4705224 Tel: +44 1904 217000
Peering db: Yes Peering db: No Peering db: Yes