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7–9 Sept 2016
The Technical and Innovation Centre
Europe/London timezone

WHIX - Collaborative Network Infrastructure on Scotland's West Coast

9 Sept 2016, 12:00
30m
Main Auditorium (The Technical and Innovation Centre)

Main Auditorium

The Technical and Innovation Centre

University of Strathclyde 99 George Street Glasgow G1 1RD
Main Session

Speaker

William Waites (HUBS / University of Edinburgh)

Description

Social, economic and political forces mean community networks are generally small. Fortunately on the West Coast of Scotland they are not isolated! A contiguous confederation of tiny ISPs stretches from Mull to Applecross and beyond. Sufficiently many networks exist that creating an IXP is desirable. They are, however, dispersed so such an IXP must be distributed. This talk is about how we built just that, WCIX, a distributed Internet Exchange on Scotland's West Coast.

Primary author

William Waites (HUBS / University of Edinburgh)

Co-authors

James Sweet (HUBS / University of Edinburgh) Peter Buneman (LHBBC / HUBS / Universty of Edinburgh)

Presentation materials