LINX Deploys Juniper's PTX Switch

LONDON -- The London Internet Exchange (LINX) and Juniper Networks (NYSE: JNPR), the industry leader in network innovation, today announced that LINX, a mutually-owned membership association for operators of Internet Protocol networks and one of the world’s largest Internet Exchanges, has selected the Juniper Networks® PTX Series Packet Transport Switch for its production network as part of an infrastructure initiative engineered to support the traffic levels resulting from ongoing growth of digital content and the mobile Internet. The deployment, which went live in May, will be the second phase of a project announced by LINX in October 2011 to create a new network designed to meet current and future levels of customer demand for online activity.

“The various high-profile events in London this summer, including The Wimbledon Championships and the Games, will be an excellent showcase for the new network, underpinning broadcast, communications and social media around the event. Generally, service providers are faced with exponential growth in demand, driven by user expectation of ubiquitous, high-quality data. The PTX Series is a uniquely innovative solution for the network’s supercore, which will enable us to provide scalable, reliable capacity in support of our members’ business models so they can in turn provide the best possible user experience for the future,” said John Souter, CEO, LINX.

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