Network Platforms officially peers at LINX

Issued by Rubicomm for Network Platforms
Johannesburg, 27 Oct 2015

As of September 2015, service-driven ICT solutions provider, Network Platforms, is officially peering at LINX, a London-based Internet exchange with an impressive 673 member ASNs across 65 countries. This investment provides Network Platforms' clients with faster and more cost-effective international connectivity routes and improved redundancies and capacity.

"Peering points save on costs as the bandwidth originally used on primary IP transit links is now flowing between the Internet service providers (ISPs) within the peering point and at a reduced cost to them," explains Brad Love, CEO at Network Platforms.

"Essentially, a peering point allows for all traffic within a specific space to communicate directly rather than having to follow the primary links out and back in. We already have peering points in South Africa and now we can offer an even richer service with a peering point in the United Kingdom."

Impressive capabilities

Network Platforms currently peers at NAP Africa in Johannesburg and Cape Town, as well as with the Johannesburg Internet Exchange (JINX), and has included LINX so as to deepen its offering. The latter provides a peak bandwidth capacity of more than 3Tb, and Network Platforms has implemented a protected Layer 2 service from South Africa to LINX for complete redundancy.

Love adds: "The London Internet Exchange (LINX) is similar to NAP with enterprise customers and ISPs using the facilities, which reduces costs and improves routing. Peering with LINX allows us greater scope and capability as well as international Layer 2 capacities. By joining LINX we now lower the price of data transmission to service providers and other networks, including businesses, and our international data performance has increased since implementation."

The move allows for clients to enjoy lower latencies, lower costs and higher performance, placing Network Platforms among the elite of South Africa as less than 10 other local ISPs currently peer with LINX. It is a solution that assures clients of connectivity and capability where it counts.

"Traditionally, if we were sending traffic to an ISP or an organisation in the UK, it would go via our IP Transit, which is more costly," concludes Love. "Through LINX, we are assuring the best possible service and functionality for our clients and underscoring our continuing investment into infrastructure and market-leading customer services."

The London Internet Exchange (LINX)

The London Internet Exchange (LINX) is one of the largest Internet exchanges in the world, connecting over 650 members (over 670 member ASNs) from over 65 countries around the globe. As a mutual membership organisation, whose members make up a large part of the global Internet, the London-based IXP is in a unique position to make a difference for all, as its mantra: 'Working for the good of the Internet' indicates. LINX continues to expand its London presence with over 11 POPs across the capital along with regional exchanges in Wales, Manchester and Scotland. LINX also operates an Internet exchange in the Ashburn metro area in the US just outside Washington DC.

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Network Platforms

Network Platforms is a service driven ICT solutions provider.

The company owns and operates from data centre infrastructures across South Africa and London.

It has established partnerships with several leading and international technology services and solutions businesses, including Cyberoam, Cisco, Microsoft, VMware, Teraco, HP and Mimecast.

Network Platforms utilises its expertise and these resources to deliver professional, comprehensive solutions for internal IT managed services, connectivity and cloud services.

Network Platforms adopts a proactive rather than reactive management of a client's IT infrastructure.

Network Platforms' focus is on keeping its clients' IT systems operational, available and secure - always with the objective of ensuring that unreliable and inefficient IT systems do not impact on a business' bottom line.

In data- and tech-driven economies, the modern business has to be agile, streamlined and efficient.

Decision-makers rely on systems that are operational, available and secure in order to enable them to focus on everyday demands of expanding businesses, managing costs and increasing revenues.

Network Platforms has developed a managed services model that provides affordable proactive IT management and support to growing businesses.

This model and proactive solution incorporates a comprehensive range of support services including application bandwidth monitoring, hardware and firmware management, configuration backups, maximum security and ongoing proactive server monitoring, among others.

The Network Platforms solution portfolio covers various technologies, including Layer 2 Connectivity, VPN, Local/International Breakout, Physical and Virtual Hosting and ADSL reseller model.

Network Platforms' value proposition includes guaranteed service levels and nationwide service and support, focused on connectivity, cloud services, IT management, VPN management, IP PBX/ VOIP communication, infrastructure monitoring, and virtual hosting, among others.

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