IXPN Becomes West Africa’s Regional IXP

Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN) has been elevated to the status of the West African regional Internet Exchange Point, according to Muhammed Rudman, managing director and chief executive officer of IXPN.

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 import 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.