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LINX update to EIX. John Souter, CEO @RIPE62. Agenda. New staff Improvements to monitoring & set-up Move to new optical platform Move to VPLS architecture. Mike Hellers Network Ops Manager Ben Hedges Marketing & Business Development Manager Derek Cobb CTO
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LINX update to EIX John Souter, CEO@RIPE62
Agenda • New staff • Improvements to monitoring & set-up • Move to new optical platform • Move to VPLS architecture
Mike HellersNetwork Ops Manager Ben HedgesMarketing & Business Development Manager Derek CobbCTO Mark StokesPre-sales engineer Starting soon: Member relations team Recruiting: Database developer Engineers New staff
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