LONAP
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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 almost 100 members, 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 an Extreme Networks and Cisco
-based infrastructure with 10Gbit/s links between five sites, specifically: Current sites are:
LONAP hosts an instance of the F Root nameserver
As a membership owned organisation, the exchange is owned by the networks which participate on it, who meet at an Annual General Meeting
to vote for the Board of Directors
, approve the budget and discuss the activity plan for the year. The rules of the exchange make it impossible to connect and peer at the exchange without becoming a member of the company, but membership is open to any organisation worldwide who wishes to peer.
Membership of the organisation is £2,000 per annum, and this offers two 1Gbit/s connections to the exchange at no further charge. 10GE ports are charged at £2,500 per annum.
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
-based Internet exchange point
Internet Exchange Point
An Internet exchange point is a physical infrastructure through which Internet service providers exchange Internet traffic between their networks . IXPs reduce the portion of an ISP's traffic which must be delivered via their upstream transit providers, thereby reducing the average per-bit...
(IXP) founded in 1997 as a membership organisation and currently has almost 100 members, 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 an Extreme Networks and Cisco
Cisco Systems
Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Jose, California, United States, that designs and sells consumer electronics, networking, voice, and communications technology and services. Cisco has more than 70,000 employees and annual revenue of US$...
-based infrastructure with 10Gbit/s links between five sites, specifically: Current sites are:
- Telehouse North
- Telehouse East
- Telecity Sovereign House
- Telecity Harbour Exchange, Building 6-7
- InterXion London CityInterxionInterxion is a European provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services. Founded in 1998 in the Netherlands, the firm was publicly listed on the New York Stock Exchange on January 28, 2011...
LONAP hosts an instance of the F Root nameserver
Root nameserver
A root name server is a name server for the Domain Name System's root zone. It directly answers requests for records in the root zone and answers other requests returning a list of the designated authoritative name servers for the appropriate top-level domain...
As a membership owned organisation, the exchange is owned by the networks which participate on it, who meet at an Annual General Meeting
Annual general meeting
An annual general meeting is a meeting that official bodies, and associations involving the public , are often required by law to hold...
to vote for the Board of Directors
Board of directors
A board of directors is a body of elected or appointed members who jointly oversee the activities of a company or organization. Other names include board of governors, board of managers, board of regents, board of trustees, and board of visitors...
, approve the budget and discuss the activity plan for the year. The rules of the exchange make it impossible to connect and peer at the exchange without becoming a member of the company, but membership is open to any organisation worldwide who wishes to peer.
Membership of the organisation is £2,000 per annum, and this offers two 1Gbit/s connections to the exchange at no further charge. 10GE ports are charged at £2,500 per annum.