Strategies
LINX and Interxion
pair up for growth
LINX has joined Interxion’s roster of 450-plus carrier and
network partners that provide connectivity from its sites
across Europe.
With space, power, connectivity and almost all of the major UK ISPs and the LINX partnership will become
permissions hard to come by, content delivery service providers, increasingly important, says Greg
expanding in the fast-growing plus many more from around the McCulloch, managing director of
colocation business is often about world. Interxion UK. LINX will allow our
partnering, as evidenced by a recent customers to gain greater control of
tie-up between the London Internet Partnering with Interxion is a key step their network traffic by giving them the
Exchange (LINX) and Interxion. in resolving the shortage of premium choice to peer directly to the LINX
colocation space at our current exchange at the Interxion London City
LINX is one of the world’s largest London sites for our members, says site, in combination with the highest
Interner exchanges, providing a John Souter, CEO of LINX. This allows standards of resilience and availability,
neutral interconnection facility and us to look to the future with real and access to high-density power.î
peering platform for its 300 members confidence. With the availability of The future of connectivity specialists
with a total in excess of 600 power and capacity so important in and datacentre operators are
connected member ports, 125 of the City of London, it is reassuring entwined, the firms agree.
which are 10Gigabit Ethernet. that Interxion has taken the necessary
steps to meet the current and future LINX’s destiny is tied to the destiny of
Over the years, LINX has had many demands of the industry.” the datacentre operators, says LINX’s
requests from datacentre operators to Souter. Long ago, we took the
provide services from their facilities. A part of Interxion’s attraction at the decision not to be bricks-and-mortar
At the start of this year, and as a moment is its rapid build-out to gain owners. LINX is a connectivity
direct response to member requests more capacity. In April of this year, company and therefore needs to be
for increased geographic coverage, Interxion added 1,250m≤ of equipped where customers want connectivity.
LINX held a ‘beauty pageant’ of space to its London City data centre.
prospective new locations, which The datacentre is supplied with 13 LINX members had been saying for a
resulted in it selecting sites including megawatts of power, N+1 redundancy long time that the datacentres LINX
Interxion. and free air cooling as standard, as operated in were running of space – at
well as the most advanced alarm and this time we had POPs in seven
Interxion, a leading European provider monitoring systems. datacentres. So, with sites definitely
of carrier-neutral datacentres, is filling up in the Docklands area, we
hosting a point of presence (POP) for The firms see the alliance as a win-
LINX in its London City data centre, win, both for themselves and for
allowing its 1,000-plus customers the customers. As we continue to attract Left: John Souter, CEO of the LINX
potential to peer directly with LINX’s customers who look to place their (left) and Greg McCulloch, MD of
extensive membership, which includes equipment at the heart of the Internet, Interxion UK (right)
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