Macs’ Virus Immunity is Reaching Its Expiration Date I got an email today from some friends who run a Bay Area IT consultancy. They deal almost exclusively in the PC trade but are Mac savvy themselves, so I was startled a bit by the subject line for their monthly Good […]

Macs’ Virus Immunity is Reaching Its Expiration Date

I got an email today from some friends who run a Bay Area IT consultancy. They deal almost exclusively in the PC trade but are Mac savvy themselves, so I was startled a bit by the subject line for their monthly Good News / Bad News newsletter: Two Very Bad Mac OSX Viruses. Of course, I […]

I got an email today from some friends who run a Bay Area IT consultancy. They deal almost exclusively in the PC trade but are Mac savvy themselves, so I was startled a bit by the subject line for their monthly Good News / Bad News newsletter: Two Very Bad Mac OSX Viruses.

Of course, I knew from chatter over the summer and from more recent conversation that the days of Macs being impervious to viruses and malware are probably numbered and sure enough, even Apple Support now officially recommends users install antivirus protection on Mac systems:

Apple encourages the widespread use of multiple antivirus utilities so that virus programmers have more than one application to circumvent, thus making the whole virus writing process more difficult.

The Apple knowledge base article goes on to recommend programs from Intego, Symantec/Norton and McAfee, all of which are commercially licensed products.

My consulting friends recommended iAntivirus, which is a free program, and said, “We have never used it but reviewers say it is good for being a free program. Download and use all free software with caution!”

Another free Mac virus checker (though the developer gratefully accepts all donations) is ClamXav, an updated version of which was released on Monday; the program gets 4.25 stars at Mac Update.

So, is that it? Are we all going to opt for the flu shot from now on? If you’ve installed antivirus software on your Mac, tell us how it’s going and what you like. If you haven’t, or don’t plan to, tell us why in comments.

Portrait - Steve Jobs is Apple: UPDATED

Image © Charis Tsevis UPDATE: With thanks to reader James of RetroMacCast, credit is due to the original creator of this and many other wonderful mosaix-technique portraits, Athens, Greece-based artist, Charis Tsevis. You can download and listen to a podcast interview with Tsevis here. Flickr user mic.imac has a fascinating portrait up of Steve Jobs, comprised entirely […]

Image © Charis Tsevis

UPDATE: With thanks to reader James of RetroMacCast, credit is due to the original creator of this and many other wonderful mosaix-technique portraits, Athens, Greece-based artist, Charis Tsevis. You can download and listen to a podcast interview with Tsevis here.

Flickr user mic.imac has a fascinating portrait up of Steve Jobs, comprised entirely of artfully arranged Apple products. The portrait echoes a theme that runs through the upcoming Welcome to Macintosh documentary my colleague Nicole Martinelli wrote about on Monday, which is that the people who work at Apple give themselves entirely to the work of designing and producing the products the company makes.

Of no one is that statement more true than Steve Jobs. As CoM founder Leander Kahney says in the documentary, “Apple is Steve Jobs.”

Apple Now Taking Orders for Premium In-Ear Headphones

Just yesterday the web was lousy with stories about the extended delay for the release of Apple’s premium in-ear headphones with remote and mic. Like magic, Tuesday the Apple Store began accepting orders for the hotly anticipated $79 premium iPod accessory, with delivery promised within 7 - 10 business days. The headset features custom two-way balanced […]

Just yesterday the web was lousy with stories about the extended delay for the release of Apple’s premium in-ear headphones with remote and mic. Like magic, Tuesday the Apple Store began accepting orders for the hotly anticipated $79 premium iPod accessory, with delivery promised within 7 - 10 business days.

The headset features custom two-way balanced armature (a woofer and tweeter in each earpiece) that Apple claims will deliver “pro audio performance and impressive sound isolation” available more often at 2X to 3X the price.

One of the most anticipated features of these headphones is their ability to allow audio recording on the latest generation of iPods without fitting an external microphone to the dock connector. The headset also features convenient buttons that let you adjust the volume and control music and video playback, and while the specs indicate they are compatible only with 120GB iPod Classic, 4th generation iPod Nano and iPod Touch, many consumer audio analysts believe at least the speakers and microphone (if not the on-lanyard controls) will work with the iPhone as well.

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This post has been corrected to accurately reflect its subject’s nationality. The post author was originally directed to the Italian version of the designer’s website, resulting in a misunderstanding as to his national origin. Vlad Gerasimov is one busy guy. Proprietor of the outstanding design shop VladStudio, this Russian designer has […]

This post has been corrected to accurately reflect its subject’s nationality. The post author was originally directed to the Italian version of the designer’s website, resulting in a misunderstanding as to his national origin. Vlad Gerasimov is one busy guy. Proprietor of the outstanding design shop VladStudio, this Russian designer has created hundreds and hundreds of […]

This post has been corrected to accurately reflect its subject’s nationality. The post author was originally directed to the Italian version of the designer’s website, resulting in a misunderstanding as to his national origin.

Vlad Gerasimov is one busy guy. Proprietor of the outstanding design shop VladStudio, this Russian designer has created hundreds and hundreds of wallpapers, backgrounds and wallpaper clocks, a sampling of which is displayed in the gallery below.

Vlad has also created a few dozen PhotoShop tutorials that can have you designing like a pro in no time.

You can purchase a lifetime registration good for receiving higher quality, signature free downloads and Adobe source files until December 31st for $19.99, $10 off his regular registration fee.

This is great stuff and well worth checking out, a fine holiday gift idea for the artist or designer on your gifting list.

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London, United Kingdom - (The Hosting News) - December 2, 2008 - The London Internet Exchange (LINX), has connected its 300th member, the first Internet exchange point in the world ever to connect as many networks together, during 2008.

John Souter, LINX Chief Executive Officer remarked, ”In addition to the major UK and global ISPs, the LINX membership includes e-commerce and DNS specialists plus content delivery and research and education networks. This makes LINX a compelling place for international peering. Our latest members broaden this still further with VoIP, IPTV and gaming services becoming more popular.”

LINX has added 50 new members representing a 19% increase in membership in just eleven months. This rise is indicative of the importance networks attach to peering despite the significant drop in transit pricing over the last decade.

The LINX membership has become highly international, with networks from more than 45 countries represented. This is up from just 16 countries in the year 2000 when there were fewer than 100 members at the exchange.

Over the last quarter LINX has been bolstered by the connection of a number of major content and DNS providers plus the first European peering presence of a leading social networking site.

LINX also boasts an impressive set of technical statistics, with over 600 member Ethernet ports connected, more than 140 of them at the fastest possible rate, 10GigE.

LINX is a mutual organization owned and consisting of approximately 250 Internet service providers and content delivery service providers. The company was was formed in 1994 when five ISPs - PIPEX, BT Internet Services, Demon Internet, Eunet GB and UKERNA/JANET - recognised that there were considerable operational benefits to exchanging traffic between their networks at the same tele-hotel where they all had facilities. It allows competing networks to exchange Internet traffic cost-effectively, bringing speed and efficiency benefits to their customers. The LINX platform enables access to Internet routes, reaching more countries, than any other public peering point. LINX operates in a regulatory and policy environment that is supportive of network operators and the Internet community, which it strives to maintain and reinforce through its Public Affairs activities. LINX has a presence at seven sites around London, all connected by secure fibre links. The extent and resiliency of the network will be further increased this year with the addition of three new points of presence.

For more information about member, please visit: www.linx.net/about/memberlist.html

To learn more about LINX, please visit: www.linx.net.

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Apple is pushing for wider third-party adoption of its new Mini DisplayPort display connector by offering free licensing of the specification, Monday reports said. In an updated licensing note, the Cupertino-based company said its MiniDisplayPort is designed for “systems where space is at a minimum, such as portable computers or to support multiple connectors on reduced […]

Apple is pushing for wider third-party adoption of its new Mini DisplayPort display connector by offering free licensing of the specification, Monday reports said.

In an updated licensing note, the Cupertino-based company said its MiniDisplayPort is designed for “systems where space is at a minimum, such as portable computers or to support multiple connectors on reduced height add-in cards.”

The news follows last week’s uproar by MacBook users who complained of problems watching videos on monitors that didn’t support the DisplayPort protocol.

Along with supporting larger displays (such as Apple’s new 24-inch Apple Cinema Display), Apple’s Mini DisplayPort includes High-Bandwith Display Content Protection (HDCP), a specification designed to prevent illegal copying of high-definition content.

Apple later released an updated version of QuickTime permitting HDCP videos to display without authentication.

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Denver, Colorado - (The Hosting News) - December 2, 2008 - Web hosting company, Webair, will deploy the authoritative name server software designed to increase the availability and security of DNS infrastructure, Secure64 DNS Authority, across all of its data centers worldwide.

In addition, the software is designed to reduce its operational costs, and provide its customers with comprehensive protection against network threats such as malware and DoS attacks. Secure64 DNS Authority’s proven capability ensures that Webair’s DNS infrastructure will be immune to malware, always available, and able to withstand denial-of-service attacks while still responding to legitimate queries - unlike other DNS applications that fail during network attacks.

Sagi Brody, CTO of Webair noted, ”Webair is growing quickly and the rapidly increasing number of domains we host for customers put too much of a burden on our previous DNS solution. By using Secure64 DNS Authority, we not only have nearly unlimited scalability with 100% availability, we have also been able to save money by dramatically consolidating our DNS servers from 35 to 8. The most important reason for selecting Secure64, though, is security. It ensures that our customers will be protected no matter what.”

Steve Goodbarn, CEO and Director of Secure64 remarked, ”The traditional approach to protecting DNS infrastructure is inefficient. That approach, which requires hardening, patching and protecting the DNS with security devices is costly, time-intensive and ultimately ineffective. By deploying Secure64 DNS Authority, Webair is securing its DNS infrastructure for the future and paving the way for continued growth of its business.”

Secure64 DNS Authority delivers the security and availability required in today’s networks, without the cost and complexity of conventional solutions. Unlike ‘hardened’ systems that require constant patching, maintenance, and investment to keep threats at bay, Secure64 DNS Authority is genuinely secure as a result of an architecture that is fully immune to compromise from rootkits and malware as well as completely resistant to network attacks. In addition, its high speed network I/O stack dramatically improves DNS query performance, allowing Secure64 DNS Authority to achieve over 100,000 queries per second, the highest performance of any authoritative name server.

Features and benefits of Secure64 DNS Authority include the following:

• Eliminates OS hardening and emergency vulnerability patching
• Eliminates the need for network security devices to protect DNS
• Responds to 100 percent of legitimate queries while under attack
• Remains available during restarts
• Consolidates DNS servers
• Is immune to rootkits and malware
• Supports DNSSEC

Webair provides affordable, managed web hosting solutions for companies of all types and sizes, including world-renowned musicians, manufacturers, media companies and professional services firms. Webair provides all of hardware, software and support necessary to meet their customers’ needs for co-location services, dedicated and virtual servers, content delivery networks, global load balancing, off-site backups and more. Webair operates its own fiber optic network and state-of-the-art datacenters located in New York, Los Angeles, Montreal and Amsterdam, and the company has a world-renowned reputation for providing the highly reliable Internet services.

Headquartered in Greenwood Village, Colorado, Secure64 is a software developer providing secure, self-protecting, high performing server applications. Secure64’s core technology is SourceT, a patent pending Genuinely Secure micro OS designed from the ground up to make the micro OS and any applications running on it immune to rootkits and malware and resistant to network attacks. Unlike conventional operating systems with insecure architectures, SourceT does not need to be hardened, patched and protected to minimize exposure to vulnerabilities.

SourceT applications such as Secure64 DNS Authority and Secure64 DNS Signer do not require protection from firewalls, intrusion prevention or DDoS mitigation devices. By simplifying and consolidating network infrastructures, Secure64 applications help IT professionals reduce costs and risks while achieving unparalleled levels of reliability and performance.

For more information about Secure64 DNS Authority, please visit: www.secure64.com/secure64DNS.shtml.

To learn more, please visit: www.secure64.com.

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Image © Charis Tsevis UPDATE: With thanks to reader James of RetroMacCast, credit is due to the original creator of this and many other wonderful mosaix-technique portraits, Athens, Greece-based artist, Charis Tsevis. You can download and listen to a podcast interview with Tsevis here. Flickr user mic.imac has a fascinating portrait up of Steve Jobs, comprised entirely […]

Image © Charis Tsevis

UPDATE: With thanks to reader James of RetroMacCast, credit is due to the original creator of this and many other wonderful mosaix-technique portraits, Athens, Greece-based artist, Charis Tsevis. You can download and listen to a podcast interview with Tsevis here.

Flickr user mic.imac has a fascinating portrait up of Steve Jobs, comprised entirely of artfully arranged Apple products. The portrait echoes a theme that runs through the upcoming Welcome to Macintosh documentary my colleague Nicole Martinelli wrote about on Monday, which is that the people who work at Apple give themselves entirely to the work of designing and producing the products the company makes.

Of no one is that statement more true than Steve Jobs. As CoM founder Leander Kahney says in the documentary, “Apple is Steve Jobs.”

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Moscow, Idaho - (The Hosting News) - December 2, 2008 - NTT Communications Company’s web hosting, managed services and applications provider, Verio, Inc., has selected Comtech Telecommunications Corp.’s AHA compression card, to manage data storage appliances and reduce disk requirements.

Fred Martin, Vice President of operations, Verio remarked, ”Verio selected the AHA compression card because it allows us to increase the capacity of our backup infrastructure with no increase in server count or datacenter space. Testing during initial trials showed Verio was able to reduce its content to 38 percent of its original size (compression ratio of 2.6:1). Having this technology available in the market today has helped Verio to save thousands of dollars in capital and operational expenses by freeing up storage space and enabling a longer life-span on our drives and servers.”

The AHA363-PCle card offers many advantages over software-based compression solutions. It is faster, offers lower latencies and requires less power to perform the compression function than other options. The AHA363-PCle offloads the data compression task from the core CPUs, thus freeing up resources for other tasks, while significantly reducing power consumption.

The system is based on Comtech AHA’s AHA3610 design - the industry’s first-ever GZIP compression and decompression integrated circuit (IC) - which offers up to 2.5 Gbits/sec throughput via hardware, while also giving significant power savings over GZIP software compression.

Based on the Open Standard GZIP Data Compression Algorithm, the AHA363-PCle supports compression throughput at 5.0 Gbps using an industry standard X4 lane PCI-Express Interface.

Product features include:

• Full GZIP algorithm compliance
• x4 PCI Express Interface
• Uses 2 AHA3610 IC’s
• 5.0 Gb/sec uncompressed throughput
• Efficient scatter gather DMA
• Single stream or intermixed streams
• Software drivers and source code
• Linux and Windows reference drivers

Comtech AHA Corporation develops and markets application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), boards, and intellectual property core technology for communications systems architects worldwide. Comtech AHA provides flexible, cost-effective solutions for today’s growing bandwidth and reliability challenges. Located in Moscow, Idaho, Comtech AHA has been providing leading edge Forward Error Correction and Lossless Data Compression technology for more than twenty years and offers a variety of standard and custom IC solutions for the data communications industry. Comtech AHA Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of Comtech Telecommunications Corp. (NASDAQ:CMTL).

Verio, Inc. enables companies to conduct business online with a suite of Web-based services that include hosting, on-demand business software and managed IT/webmaster services. Verio puts its customers on the growth path to succeed by helping them employ the Web as a tool to drive and manage their business. A wholly owned subsidiary of global communications leader NTT Communications, Verio serves customers in 146 countries worldwide via a direct sales model, an active reseller channel and private label partnerships with global carriers and telecommunications companies. Verio is supported by NTT with highly reliable and scalable global infrastructure and systems including the NTT Communications Global IP Network.

For more information about Comtech AHA, please visit: www.aha.com.

To learn more about Verio, please visit: www.verio.com.

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When Steve Jobs convened the “Let’s Rock” event to unveil the new iPod Nano in September, he made a point of whetting our appetites for premium in-ear headphones with remote and mic that were said, at the time, to be shipping in October. It’s now December and the Apple website still says “Coming Soon.” Apple engineers […]

When Steve Jobs convened the “Let’s Rock” event to unveil the new iPod Nano in September, he made a point of whetting our appetites for premium in-ear headphones with remote and mic that were said, at the time, to be shipping in October. It’s now December and the Apple website still says “Coming Soon.”

Apple engineers were ordered to revise the design, which required Apple’s overseas contractors to retool their manufacturing process, resulting in the extended delay, according to sources cited by MacBloz on Monday.

The premium headphones, slated to retail for $79, are intended to compete with high-end audiophile headsets costing two and three times that amount from the likes of Bose and Sony, and according to the MacBlogz sources, that standard has not yet been achieved. On the other hand, it should be premature to rule out a splashy marketing deployment of the eagerly anticipated headphones just in time for last minute holiday shopping.

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Apple’s Premium Headphones Go Back to the Drawing Board When Steve Jobs convened the “Let’s Rock” event to unveil the new iPod Nano in September, he made a point of whetting our appetites for premium in-ear headphones with remote and mic that were said, at the time, to be shipping […]

Apple’s Premium Headphones Go Back to the Drawing Board

When Steve Jobs convened the “Let’s Rock” event to unveil the new iPod Nano in September, he made a point of whetting our appetites for premium in-ear headphones with remote and mic that were said, at the time, to be shipping in October. It’s now December and the Apple website still says “Coming Soon.” Apple engineers […]

When Steve Jobs convened the “Let’s Rock” event to unveil the new iPod Nano in September, he made a point of whetting our appetites for premium in-ear headphones with remote and mic that were said, at the time, to be shipping in October. It’s now December and the Apple website still says “Coming Soon.”

Apple engineers were ordered to revise the design, which required Apple’s overseas contractors to retool their manufacturing process, resulting in the extended delay, according to sources cited by MacBloz on Monday.

The premium headphones, slated to retail for $79, are intended to compete with high-end audiophile headsets costing two and three times that amount from the likes of Bose and Sony, and according to the MacBlogz sources, that standard has not yet been achieved. On the other hand, it should be premature to rule out a splashy marketing deployment of the eagerly anticipated headphones just in time for last minute holiday shopping.

Via MacBlogz.

Touch and Go: Tactile iPhone Case for Sight Impaired

This prototype tactile iPhone case called Invisual allows sight-impaired users to get the most out of the smart phone. It would work in conjunction with special accessibility functions, such as text-to-speech features and moon type tactile alphabet keyboard. Portugal-based designer Bruno Fosi crafted the silicon case with modified bas-relief buttons that correspond to the iPhone home […]

This prototype tactile iPhone case called Invisual allows sight-impaired users to get the most out of the smart phone. It would work in conjunction with special accessibility functions, such as text-to-speech features and moon type tactile alphabet keyboard.

Portugal-based designer Bruno Fosi crafted the silicon case with modified bas-relief buttons that correspond to the iPhone home screen. Fosi says that the iPhone thus covered keeps all its functions intact, including multi-touch and finger flick scrolling.

Via Yanko Design

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Dedicated Server Firm, SoftLayer, Reports Strong Growth and Profitability

Dallas, Texas - (The Hosting News) - December 2, 2008 - On-demand hosting services and virtual data center provider for the small to medium enterprise (SME), SoftLayer, has reported strong growth and outperformance of all projections throughout 2008.

The company provides highly automated, on-demand data center and IT services that allow businesses to more efficiently utilize their resources and decrease their capital expenditures. SoftLayer’s growth continues despite general U.S. economic woes, indicating that the company’s model for providing outsourced IT environments has considerable mainstream market advantages.

Lance Crosby, Chief Executive Officer, SoftLayer remarked, ”As much as we’ve accomplished this year, we keep moving forward, continuing to innovate and enhance our offerings and provide customers the ultimate virtual data center solutions. In these tough economic times our solutions are more relevant than ever. We will be launching additional virtualization and cloud computing options that give our customers highly scalable, flexible solutions for their business’ computing needs.”

Through October of this year, SoftLayer has reached a number of key milestones, including:

• Annual recurring revenue of over $60 million, up from $33 million in 2007
• 40%+ EBITDA margins and growing
• Continued GAAP profitability
• More than 5,500 active customers across 110+ countries
• More than 18,000 deployed servers
• Receiving Tech Titans award for the fastest growing company in Dallas
• Pending completion of a SAS-70 Type II review in December 2008

Additionally, SoftLayer has expanded its leadership position this year through significant achievements such as:

• Launching version 3.0 of the industry-leading SoftLayer Open API
• Completing an end-to-end rewrite of SoftLayer’s Infrastructure Management System (IMS), a proprietary and leading-edge management platform, to provide even more scalability and automation
• Deployment of a massively scalable data warehouse to support growth in back office systems and capabilities
• Adding a third data center in Washington, D.C.
• Expanding its data center facilities in Dallas
• Launching new enterprise-class services including:

• CDNLayer, SoftLayer’s content delivery network with best-in-industry pricing
• Anycast DNS, for geographically redundant DNS routing
• Global load balancing

Launching of virtualization solutions including Microsoft Hyper-V, Parallels Virtuozzo, and Citrix XenServer

Delivering the industry’s first deployment of Intel’s Dunnington chipset: a quad-processor, hex-core platform for high-performance computing environments

Headquartered in Plano, Texas, SoftLayer delivers next-generation web hosting and virtualized data center services on a global basis from facilities located in Dallas, TX; Seattle, WA; and Washington, DC. Utilizing proprietary management tools coupled with the industry’s first Network-Within-a-Network topology, the company delivers unprecedented power and control to securely manage IT environments while providing unparalleled scalability.

For more about SoftLayer, please visit: www.softlayer.com.

Holiday Gift Idea: VladStudio’s Beautiful, Whimsical Wallpaper Clocks

This post has been corrected to accurately reflect its subject’s nationality. The post author was originally directed to the Italian version of the designer’s website, resulting in a misunderstanding as to his national origin. Vlad Gerasimov is one busy guy. Proprietor of the outstanding design shop VladStudio, this Russian designer has created hundreds and hundreds of […]

This post has been corrected to accurately reflect its subject’s nationality. The post author was originally directed to the Italian version of the designer’s website, resulting in a misunderstanding as to his national origin.

Vlad Gerasimov is one busy guy. Proprietor of the outstanding design shop VladStudio, this Russian designer has created hundreds and hundreds of wallpapers, backgrounds and wallpaper clocks, a sampling of which is displayed in the gallery below.

Vlad has also created a few dozen PhotoShop tutorials that can have you designing like a pro in no time.

You can purchase a lifetime registration good for receiving higher quality, signature free downloads and Adobe source files until December 31st for $19.99, $10 off his regular registration fee.

This is great stuff and well worth checking out, a fine holiday gift idea for the artist or designer on your gifting list.

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London, United Kingdom - (The Hosting News) - December 2, 2008 - The London Internet Exchange (LINX), has connected its 300th member, the first Internet exchange point in the world ever to connect as many networks together, during 2008. John […]

London, United Kingdom - (The Hosting News) - December 2, 2008 - The London Internet Exchange (LINX), has connected its 300th member, the first Internet exchange point in the world ever to connect as many networks together, during 2008.

John Souter, LINX Chief Executive Officer remarked, ”In addition to the major UK and global ISPs, the LINX membership includes e-commerce and DNS specialists plus content delivery and research and education networks. This makes LINX a compelling place for international peering. Our latest members broaden this still further with VoIP, IPTV and gaming services becoming more popular.”

LINX has added 50 new members representing a 19% increase in membership in just eleven months. This rise is indicative of the importance networks attach to peering despite the significant drop in transit pricing over the last decade.

The LINX membership has become highly international, with networks from more than 45 countries represented. This is up from just 16 countries in the year 2000 when there were fewer than 100 members at the exchange.

Over the last quarter LINX has been bolstered by the connection of a number of major content and DNS providers plus the first European peering presence of a leading social networking site.

LINX also boasts an impressive set of technical statistics, with over 600 member Ethernet ports connected, more than 140 of them at the fastest possible rate, 10GigE.

LINX is a mutual organization owned and consisting of approximately 250 Internet service providers and content delivery service providers. The company was was formed in 1994 when five ISPs - PIPEX, BT Internet Services, Demon Internet, Eunet GB and UKERNA/JANET - recognised that there were considerable operational benefits to exchanging traffic between their networks at the same tele-hotel where they all had facilities. It allows competing networks to exchange Internet traffic cost-effectively, bringing speed and efficiency benefits to their customers. The LINX platform enables access to Internet routes, reaching more countries, than any other public peering point. LINX operates in a regulatory and policy environment that is supportive of network operators and the Internet community, which it strives to maintain and reinforce through its Public Affairs activities. LINX has a presence at seven sites around London, all connected by secure fibre links. The extent and resiliency of the network will be further increased this year with the addition of three new points of presence.

For more information about member, please visit: www.linx.net/about/memberlist.html

To learn more about LINX, please visit: www.linx.net.

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