Mariano Juliá
Mariano Juliá is Enterprise Architect at LINX, where he leads technology architecture and roadmap across the exchange's operational and business-support systems. He brings more than 25 years of experience in internet and telecommunications infrastructure, spanning IXPs, submarine cables, global backbones, mobile carriers, and managed service providers, with deep expertise in network design and interconnection, alongside OSS/BSS and, more recently, network autonomy and AI-driven operations. He has held technical design authority roles across major operators and represents LINX in the interconnection community. Mariano holds an Executive MBA from IMD Business School and speaks on network architecture and the future of infrastructure.
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LON2 was originally launched in 2002 following LON1’s increasing popularity and was created to ensure there was no critical single point of failure in the UK’s internet connectivity. LINX’s dual LAN infrastructure design in London has been something that sets us apart over the years from other Internet Exchange Points. Operating a redundant, diverse and resilient solution in house for members means not having to look elsewhere for this critical capability. In 2018 LINX announced that they were the world’s first IXP to deploy a disaggregated network using EVPN, with hardware and software sourced from alternative vendors.
However, with end of life equipment, how did LINX refresh a LAN with 1/3 of its membership on without issues... or was there?