…, saves $40m yearly
By Juliet Umeh
Internet Exchange of Nigeria, IXPN, has reached the traffic of 125 Gigabits per second, Gbps, in 2020 with a cost savings increase to USD 40 million per year.
This is according to the latest report on Critical African Internet Infrastructure by the Internet Society, tagged: ‘Anchoring the African Internet Ecosystem: Lessons from Kenya and Nigeria’s Internet Exchange Points, IXP, Growth.
The report, unveiled through a Zoom Webinar, also revealed that the growth in peak traffic is a huge increase from Peak IXP traffic of 300 Mbps and cost savings of US$1,080,000, when in 2012 it commissioned a study to identify and quantify the significant benefits IXPs in Nigeria.
While validating the growth in traffic to the current COVID-19 crisis, which has put a growing reliance on the Internet to replace face-to-face interactions during lockdowns and social distancing, the report noted that Nigeria and Kenya have reached Stage 2 of Internet…
Source: Vanguard Newspaper
