1. The New
Internet Exchange
in Yorkshire
Faster...
Cheaper...
More reliable...
...... internet in the North
Andy Davidson
0114 319 0605

3. Time Passes
This…… Business Networking
….leads to a need for lots of this…. Interconnection
Knowledge Exchange

4. Interconnection
Link between two networks
Equal Benefit

5. Peering is a
Direct
Connection
between two networks
5

6. Peering is
Mutually Beneficial

7. It makes your stuff
Faster

9. You become more AVAILABLE

10. Don’t like speed limits?
Build more roads!

11. Many private 1:1
Connections scale badly

12. Shared glue in the middle scales better

13. Access / ISP
Exchange
Content
Telephony
Enterprise

15. London
Amsterdam
Frankfurt

16. Leeds? Prague
London
Amsterdam
Frankfurt
Dublin
Warsaw
Berlin

17. IXPs in Europe
Number of IXPs: 132
In 36 countries
At 420 DCs in 140 cities
Average 1GE price: €5k/yr
IXLeeds 1GE price: £1k/yr
No. of connections: 6,300
Peak traffic in 2011: 5.867Tb

18. Local Independence
A powerful combined voice
A local opinion

19. Launch!
Soft launch … September 2010
“install a switch and see what happens next”
Formal launch … September 2011
Today we have 16 members (13 online)
Yesterday we launched IPv6 peering lan
And the UK’s first Jumbo Frames peering lan

20. Join in…
• info@ixleeds.net
• Twitter: @ixleeds
• Andy Davidson andy@ixleeds.net
@andyd 0114 319 0605