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release detailLINX Honoured In Campaign Against Internet Child AbuseLondon Internet Exchange (LINX) – the UK’s largest membership organisation for Internet service providers – has been honoured for its frontline role in efforts to eradicate child abuse images from the UK Internet. The Internet Watch Foundation presented LINX chairman Grahame Davies with a special ‘Achievements and Champions’ award during a House of Commons ‘Corridor Event’. The award recognised the efforts of LINX, the world’s largest Internet exchange, in the frontline of the online battle against child abuse. IWF chairman Roger Darlington praised LINX for its valuable financial support for the IWF since its founding in 1996 and the prompt action of its members in ‘de-listing’ sources of Internet child abuse images when they are identified. Grahame Davies said: “As a founding member of IWF, LINX is pleased to support its vital work in combating images of children being abused and congratulates it on achieving such a marked reduction in the incidence of such images hosted in the UK. Although many LINX members are actually based overseas we are united in supporting the IWF’s efforts in eradicating illegal and abusive material originating from the UK.” Special awards were also presented to Peter Dawe OBE and the Internet Services Providers’ Association, who helped found IWF in 1996 and continue to support its work. Home Office Minister Paul Goggins (MP for Wythenshawe and Sale East) opened the IWF Corridor Event and Liberal Democrat Cabinet Office spokesman Richard Allan (MP for Sheffield Hallam) hosted the presentation lunch, which was sponsored by Wanadoo. IWF chief executive Peter Robbins said: “We feel it is important to acknowledge the people and organisations that have been so crucial in effectively dealing with potentially illegal content online in the UK. These achievements just wouldn’t have been possible without such partnerships. “Less than one per cent of the potentially illegal content found by the IWF is hosted in the UK and reports to the IWF hotline have dropped for the first time in its history as a result of the successful partnership with the Internet industry.” END Photo caption: LINX chairman Grahame Davies (left) receives the ‘Achievements and Champions’ award from IWF chairman Richard Darlington at the House of Commons. Notes to editors: 1. LINX is the world's largest Internet exchange point (IXP). It is a mutual, not-for-profit organisation whose members include almost all the major UK network service providers (including content delivery service providers and Internet service providers) plus many from the USA, mainland Europe, the Far East and Africa. More than 90 per cent of the Internet traffic exchanged between ISPs in the UK passes through LINX equipment. 2. Membership of LINX permits commercial competitors to exchange Internet traffic between their networks across LINX switches, which are housed in eight colocation facilities based in the London Docklands area and linked by dedicated fibre optic cables. 3. In addition to co-founding the Internet Watch Foundation as the UK's first hotline for reporting and removing child pornography from the Internet, LINX has a distinguished list of 'firsts' in the Internet industry. It was the first exchange to allow members to connect at 100 Mb Ethernet (July 1996); the first to operate over gigabit Ethernet (January 1999); and the first exchange to use 10 gigabit Ethernet (January 2002). 4. Certain non-commercial organisations are allowed to mount exhibitions in the House of Commons Upper Waiting Hall corridor to deliver key messages and raise awareness among government ministers and MPs who use the corridor to reach chambers and committee rooms. Brian White MP, a keen IWF supporter, sponsored the exhibition. For more information contact: Vanessa Evans Michael Holland or Mike Lennox Fay Macdonald
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