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| Record Growth Allows LINX to Cut Prices for Members The London Internet Exchange (LINX) has announced that record-breaking membership growth in the first half of 2008 has allowed it to make substantial cuts in prices for membership and for the services which members receive. Annual membership fees have been cut by 10 per cent as have the price of 1 GigE and 10 GigE ports on one of LINX's two independent local area networks (LANs). Port prices on the second LAN are being set 25 per cent lower than on the first in a bid to encourage members to link to both networks, increasing the resilience of LINX and therefore of the whole Internet. LINX charges a flat rate membership fee, now set at £2,250 per annum, to cover the costs of running the organisation, in which all members have a single vote. There is an annual charge for each port connected on the two LANs but there is no traffic charge – members are able to put as much or as little traffic through their ports as their network configurations require, without financial penalty. LINX split its infrastructure into two separate LANs in 2002. One LAN is based on hardware supplied by Foundry Networks, the other on hardware from Extreme Networks. write your comments about the article :: © 2008 Computing News :: home page |