LINX update to EIX

John Souter, CEO@RIPE62

Agenda

1. New staff2. Improvements to monitoring

& set-up3. Move to new optical platform 4. Move to VPLS architecture

New staff• Mike Hellers

Network Ops Manager• Ben Hedges

Marketing & Business Development Manager

• Derek CobbCTO

• Mark StokesPre-sales engineer

Starting soon:• Member relations

teamRecruiting:• Database

developer • Engineers

Monitoring system

• We’ve had a brocade of outages in recent times

• This has lead to improvements to monitoring and our set-up

• Monitoring systems are never done!• More ‘protective’ set-up

New optical platform• Decision to buy new platform

– Based on MRV equipment– To be deployed between member connections

and the switches• The big gains:

– Efficient use of our dark fibre infrastructure– Enables switch vendor independent optics for

inter-switch links• Supports move to 8x10G linecards for ISLs

Move to VPLS

• Architectural review in 2010– Firm decision to move to VPLS from

ring-based architecture

• Implementation delayed by recent events

• Expect to complete this summer

Questions?