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London Network Access Point
AbbreviationLONAP
Founded1997
LocationLondon, United Kingdom
Websitewww.lonap.net
Members89 As of May 2009[1]
Peak13.6 Gbits/s As of June 2009[2]

London Network Access Point (LONAP, once styled LoNAP - and London Access Point) is a London-based Internet exchange point (IXP) founded in 1997 as a membership organisation and currently has 89 members,[1] making it the 2nd largest IXP in the UK and around the 15th largest IXP in the World by membership. (Although current traffic levels make it around the 30th largest by bandwidth - see List of Internet exchange points by size) LONAP currently operates a Cisco-based infrastructure with 10Gb/s links between four sites, specifically:[3] Current sites are:

On 10th November 2009, LONAP announced that it was going to install switching equipment into the InterXion London City data centre in the first quarter of 2010.

LONAP hosts an instance of the F Root nameserver[4]

References

  1. ^ a b "LONAP: Current Members". Retrieved 2009-05-05.
  2. ^ "LONAP: Bandwidth Statistics". Retrieved 2009-05-05.
  3. ^ "LONAP: London-based Internet Exchange Point". Retrieved 2009-05-05.
  4. ^ "ISC and LONAP install F-root Name Server in diverse London, UK location". Retrieved 2009-05-05.