Ozioma Ubabukoh
The Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria has been elevated to the status of the West African regional Internet Exchange Point.
In a statement made available to
journalists, the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of IXPN,
Muhammed Rudman, stated that the elevation was attained after the
company successfully vied in the Africa Union Commission’s African
Internet Exchange System project for a Regional Internet Exchange Point
for West Africa.
Until the recent development, IXPN, an
infrastructure provider company that allows several Internet Service
Providers, telecommunications companies, carriers, and content
providers, to exchange traffic among their networks locally, was
primarily focused on localising Internet traffic in Nigeria by
interconnecting Nigerian networks.
While making clarifications on the impo
rt of its new status, Rudman said that IXPN had moved from national to a regional level.
According to him, its infrastructure
shall be upgraded, in consonance with its new rules to ensure a more
resilient operation in the function of connecting all other Internet
Exchange Points in the region and to accentuate its capacity to handle
the traffic coming thereby.
He said, “The fact that the regional IXP
for West Africa is domiciled in Nigeria should leapfrog the nation to
the information hub in the West African sub-region. It, invariably, will
boost patronage of complementary and ancillary services in Nigeria from
telecom companies, content providers and other IP-centric organisations
in the region.
“Becoming the regional IXP holds great prospects for the Nigerian economy.
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