FiberLight completes first redundant fiber-optic network for London Internet Exchange (LINX)

ATLANTA, USA: FiberLight LLC (FiberLight), one of the nation's leading providers of high performance fiber-optic networks, has completed and delivered the first redundant fiber-optic network for the London Internet Exchange (LINX) in the United States within the Northern Virginia metropolitan market.

LINX is the largest Internet Exchange Point (IXP) in the world, reaching more of the global routing table than any other IXP.

The new metro ring utilizes FiberLight's 100% underground, fiber-optic network in the Northern Virginia area markets and connects three switching Points of Presence (PoPs), which make up the LINX NoVA multi-site Internet Exchange (IX). This service has been launched to provide the US access to content networks with a robust and resilient solution for exchanging local and global Internet traffic.

"We are pleased to announce our partnership with FiberLight, as this enables us to offer the very first multi-site Internet Exchange (IX) in North Virginia, representing the largest concentration of Internet traffic in the United States and benefiting businesses and consumers through cost savings and increased performance," says John Souter, CEO, LINX. "We look forward to a long-standing relationship with FiberLight as we continue to expand our IX footprint in these new markets."

"FiberLight is proud to add LINX to our growing list of world-class service providers, and we look forward to supporting their strategic expansion in our markets," adds FiberLight's executive VP of Sales and Marketing, David Spitznagel. "Because FiberLight has such a deep and robust network footprint in the North Virginia, Washington, D.C. and Baltimore area, we are positioned to support the service level requirements and expected growth of a valued partner such as LINX."