Linx dominates UK carrier market

The London Internet Exchange (Linx) has just switched its 250 trillionth packet of data.

Linx provides a forum for ISPs to exchange unused bandwidth on fibre optic networks throughout the UK between themselves and so enlarge their coverage spheres. Linx routes 96 per cent of UK internet traffic.

Each packet of data switched by the Linx network contains an average of 500 words or 450 to 550 bytes.

Peak traffic flows at the exchange have hit 14Gbits each second or 840,000 emails each second which places Linx 140 times above its closest UK rival, it says.