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Webby's World[Webby's World] By using statistics from Linx, the London Internet Exhange, which is the busiest in the world it is saying the web is only growing this year at 49%, compared to 104% last year. These are calculated using the Gbps going flowing through Linx.

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[Ladlass.com] Internet Changes Everything: Britain becomes top data swapper: The non-profit London Internet Exchange handles the "peering" systems that link all the networks of the UK's net firms to each other. About 150 net firms swap traffic via Linx hardware located in London's Docklands.

[I-policy.typepad.com] Information Policy: Data retention will cost providers millions: The study estimates the total Dutch internet traffic at 25 Gb/s, and calculates that the initial investment to retain and store traffic data in the Netherlands would be 15 to 20 million euro if the internet providers would do it themselves, and 7 to 10 million euro if the government were to store the data and handle all requests themselves. As high as those costs might seem, they were already outdated when the report was finalised, in November 2004, because they were based on statistics from 2003.

[Publicaffairs.linx.net] LINX Public Affairs » Child protection: Margaret Moran MP is to introduce a Ten Minute Rule Bill to Parliament in the Autumn entitled the “Control of Internet Access (Child Pornography) Bill”. Its declared purpose is “to require internet service providers and other commercial organisations providing access to the internet to declare whether or not they have taken steps to prevent access to web sites containing indecent images of children;

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