What is Peering?
Peering has served as the primary method of exchanging internet traffic between networks for decades.
Connecting to an Internet Exchange allows you to establish peering with hundreds of other networks across a single physical port. Members can setup or remove bilateral peering sessions with networks without the need to reprovision circuits or order additional cross connects.
Benefits of Peering with LINX
- Gain greater network resilience and lower latency
- Increase control and enhance security of your network traffic
- Connect directly via a single cross connect or remotely through one of our layer 2 reseller partners
Peering at LINX Includes:
- Single mode fibre and optics for all ports
- Support for 10G, 100G and 400G ports with fractional peering bandwidths available
- LINX members receive a 10G port with 1Gbps of peering at all LINX peering LANs in the UK, US and Africa
- LINX Protect provides RTBH based DDoS mitigation
Remote Peering
Through our network of global carrier partners, you can still access LINX’s peering network even if you aren’t near a LINX-enabled data centre – so any network can peer at key LINX locations throughout the UK and US.
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Additional Services
Route Collector
The LINX route collectors act as a monitoring and troubleshooting tool. As a LINX member network you can access route collector data through our Looking Glass service in the members’ portal.
Hear from Our Members & Associates
Peering Automation at Facebook
“Traffic on the internet travels across many different kinds of links. A fast and reliable way to exchange traffic between different networks and service providers is through peering…”
“Initially, we managed peering via a time-intensive manual process. Reliable peering is essential for Facebook and for everyone’s internet use.”
Internet Society Explainer: What is Internet Peering?
Most peering agreements require the network operators to have the following:
- a publicly routed autonomous system number (ASN),
- one block of public IP addresses, and
- a network edge router capable of running Border Gateway Protocol.
