LINX Enters North American Market with CoreSite for Peering Exchange

The London Internet Exchange (LINX) has selected CoreSite Realty Corporation for its first North American peering exchange, LINX NoVA. The group chose CoreSite’s cloud-enabled northern Virginia data center campus for the deployment, which will enhance carrier density at the facility as well as increase the options for both Internet peering and customer connectivity.

CoreSite’s campus supports facilities in Reston, Va. and Washington, D.C. and serves close to 150 customers. LINX will enable a vast expansion, as the group connects more than 480 networks and over 1,100 ports. The exchange serves to enable ISPs and other groups to directly connect to one another to exchange Internet traffic.

The partnership supports CoreSite’s Open Internet Exchange Hub, which follows the principles of the Open Internet Exchange (Open-IX). That organization works to expand business-neutral Internet exchanges as well as improve access to networks within major interconnection markets.

The relatively new Open IX group is striving to create a network of Internet exchange points consisting of neutral, member-governed exchanges. The principle follows a popular non-profit European model in which exchange operations are spread across multiple data centers within a market.

CoreSite has an open peering exchange policy offering public peering opportunities as well as CoreSite’s own network and customer communities. The CoreSite marketplace consists of network, content and cloud service providers as well as enterprises, interconnect and exchange traffic and services. Members may interact cost-effectively with the goal of reducing latency and improving network diversity.

LINX will be providing free 10G ports to any networks that join its North American Internet Exchange, according to CEO John Souter.

"As reflected by the introduction of our Open Internet Exchange Hub last year, we believe in the importance of neutral Internet exchanges and our relationship with LINX NoVA in Virginia further strengthens our platform's value in providing our customers additional opportunities for both connectivity and community," added Brian Warren, vice president of product management at CoreSite.