equipment from Foundry Networks – in fact, the second of their worldwide customers to deploy their technology. 2003 – This year saw the launch of the 'LINX from Anywhere' service, a facility that permits smaller ISPs to piggyback on the networks of existing members to obtain a secure, virtual presence on the LINX exchange without incurring the manpower and Rackspace costs of having their own installation in London. 2004 – LINX considerably expanded its footprint, with four new points of presence (PoPs) – all in the Docklands area of London. 2005 – LINX members voted to make public affairs one of the company's "core functions", placing it on an equal footing with peering and interconnection. 2006 – LINX membership reached 200. 2008 – LINX expanded again opening three new PoPs, this time adding considerably to the geographical diversity by doing so in the City of London, North Acton and Slough. It also heralded new relationships with data centre operators, with the addition of Interxion and Equinix (to the pre-existing ones of Telehouse and Telecity). 2011 – The LINX primary LAN was redesigned to a VPLS-based infrastructure with a new vendor, Juniper Networks. 2012 – The ConneXions reseller programme launched. Also this year LINX became the first Internet exchange in the world to install a Juniper PTX5000 in a live network and the exchange opened its first site outside London in Manchester (IXManchester). 2013 – Two additional local exchanges, IXScotland in Edinburgh and LINX NoVA in North Virginia, USA, were launched. They were the exchange's first sites outside England. 2014 – Another local exchange, IXCardiff in Wales, was launched. 2016 – Sees the introduction of new hardware and a restructuring of LON2 with hardware from EdgeCore Networks 2017 – Following the passage of the Investigatory Powers Act, a new constitution was proposed which would ban directors from reporting the installation of surveillance equipment to members. This caused dissension among members, many of which are non-UK based ISPs operating from countries where mass surveillance is, like in the UK, not legal. This interpretation of the constitutional change was disputed on the official LINX website. Voting on the constitutional revision took place during a hastily called Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) on 21 February; although a majority supported the change the number attending was too small for the motion to be carried. 2021 – LINX reported a record level of UK Traffic at 6.05Tbps.