Internet Exchanges and Peering Points
Internet Exchanges and Peering Points are places within data centres where internet traffic is exchanged between users. Once you have joined an Internet Exchange and connected to their data centre peering point, data exchange between yourself and other members is free.
International and London Internet Exchanges
Most Internet Exchanges are national, neutral and not-for-profit. The main London peering points belong to LINX (London Internet Exchange) and LONAP. Others that can easily be reached from the City Lifeline data centre include the AMS-IX Internet Exchange in Amsterdam, the DE-CIX Internet Exchange in Germany, the France-IX Internet peering point in Paris, the Netnod peering fabric in Sweden and world-wide, MIX in Italy and TelX and NYiXX in New York. There are many other internet data exchanges to which the London data centre can connect .
Connections are available to public cloud service providers, such as Amazon Web Services (AWS). These provide a fast and effective way of offloading routine or peak computing tasks to cloud services providers.
Single London data centre connection
City Lifeline provides a single connection point within the London data centre, on a single contract, to many Internet Exchanges and public cloud service providers. Because the contract includes membership fees, data exchange at many peering points is economic, even when exchange traffic volumes are low.
Speed of data exchange connection
Port speeds from the London data centre are very flexible, typically 100Mb/sec to 1Gb/sec. Connections at 10Gb/sec are available by special request. Connections to data centre peering points can be diverse or non-diverse, protected or unprotected.
Using Internet Exchange peering points
You can extend the reach of your London data exchange dramatically by connecting from the City Lifeline London data centre to other data exchange peering points around the world. A single connection, on a single contract, makes data centre internet exchange economic even with low internet traffic volumes in each exchange. You can connect to public cloud services to quickly scale up or down on compute requirements. And you can dramatically reduce the cost per data exchange transaction or cloud service access.
