UK ISP Spitfire has upgraded its connection to the London Internet Exchange (LINX) with multiple Gigabit Ethernet fibre. The move has been made following a surge in traffic growth since the start of this year:


Most major UK ISPs and many European and International ISPs are members of LINX, the world’s largest independent IP exchange. Internet exchanges are where ISPs hand over traffic to each other through what are known as peering agreements.

Spitfire has set up peering agreements with many other ISPs and content providers such as Google, the BBC and Microsoft. Being connected to LINX reduces the number of hops that traffic has to take to reach its destination which increases download speeds to users and also adds resilience to Spitfire’s own network.