MDXI Partners Asteroid

One of West Africa’s largest data centre provider, MDXI and global IX P platform provider, A steroid have gone into a partnership to launch a carrier-neutral Internet Exchange Point (IXP) for West Africa. TheWest African Internet Exchange (WAF-IX), is based on Asteroid’s lightweight design and will be located in MDXI’sTier III Data Centre, in Lagos. Out lining the three major objectives for WA F-IX as accessibility, lower costs and reduced latency for Internet users in West Africa, Product Manager, MDXI/Peering Coordinator, WAF-IX, Vremudia Oghene-Ruemu stressed that the new Internet Exchange would complement national IXPs, improve regional traffic and ultimately foster the attainment of the digital economy across West Africa. “Given the size of its markets and status as home to some of Africa’s biggest economies, West Africa is uniquely positioned to scale up its digital transformation efforts via Internet traffic growth. “The West African Internet Exchange, hosted within our globally certified Data Centre will significantly improve traffic exchange and localisation within West Africa, with benefits of reduced latency, improved speed and better quality of service to end users. WAFIX will enable more Africa-focused global and local carriers take advantage of the region’s growing Internet penetration to enable services originating and terminating within the region”, he said. West African Internet Exchange would facilitate improved interconnection, collaboration and peering between players with access to MDXI’sTier III data centre, and would enable an ecosystem that allows customers connect to multiple networks, cloud and content providers.