London Internet Providers Exchange

London Internet Providers EXchange

Founded	2001
Location	London, United Kingdom
Website	www.lipex.net
Peak	240 Mbit/s (February 2004) (Highest Known) [1]

The London Internet Providers EXchange ("LIPEX") was an Internet Exchange Point situated in London. ^[2] It was founded in 2001 by three directors of commercial Internet service providers: Panny Malialis of Hotlinks, Chris Smith of The Communication Gateway Ltd and Boyan Marinkovich of Routo Telecom Ltd as a free of charge Internet Exchange Point sponsored by Allied Telesyn. In 2002 Panny Malialis took over sole running of LIPEX and changed it into a commercial business.

Telehouse Docklands, one of the LIPEX POPs.

Lipex offered services in 6 POPS:

• Star Suite, Telehouse North
• Telehouse North
• Telehouse East
• TeleCityRedbus Harbour Exchange
• TeleCityRedbus Sovereign House
• TeleCityRedbus Meridian Gate

Other Internet exchange points in London

• London Internet Exchange (LINX)
• London Network Access Point (LONAP)
• Packet Exchange
• Redbus Internet Exchange (RBIEX)
• XchangePoint

References

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20040220013217/http://pig.lipex.net:80/total.cgi?days=1&type=Octets"
2. "LIPEX - London Internet Providers EXchange". Archived from the original on 12 June 2008. Retrieved 27 June 2008. www.lipex.net

External links

• LIPEX
• EURO-IX