The London Internet Exchange (LINX) have announced that they are extending their interconnection hub in the north of the UK to the Lunar Digital data centre campus in central Manchester.
The new partnership was confirmed during a recent site visit from the LINX team to the Manchester site, former Equinix facility known as MA2, Reynolds House, acquired by the Lunar Digital team in February 2023.
The campus consisting of Lunar 1 and Lunar 2 has had a complete facelift in the last 12 months with a focus on modernization and sustainability.
Rob Garbutt of Lunar Digital commented;
“We are really pleased to now be able to offer the LINX peering LAN to our customers in our Manchester Lunar 1 & 2 data centres with 100Gig port availability for peering services and more. Having the LINX fabric present in our facilities will greatly improve our customers networking options. Welcome LINX!”
LINX Manchester is the regional hub of the London Internet Exchange. A neutral, interconnection platform providing peering services and more. Networks that connect into the LINX Manchester ecosystem benefit from meeting a community of networks and keeping their online traffic local, lowering latency and costs, and increasing overall data control.
LINX Interconnection Specialist Colin Peckham comments;
“We have seen considerable growth at LINX Manchester over the last 12 months, an increase on average traffic of 100Gbps and regular peaks of over 450 – 550Gbps. The expansion of our network to Lunar Digital reflects the further growth we expect in the next 12 months.”
The growth at LINX Manchester is down to a combination of new to LINX networks looking to peer and keep their traffic local and existing LINX members upgrading or adding additional services to their ports in Manchester like the Microsoft Azure Peering Service (MAPS) for example.
Manchester continues its growth as a key digital hub for the UK. With the success of Media City and the creative content being made and distributed from the hub to the recent news of government investments for a new Manchester Digital Campus in 2026, the city is buzzing with increased connectivity potential.
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