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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?