The President and Chief Executive Officer of Medallion
Communications Limited, Engineer Ikechukwu Nnamani was Friday elected into the
Executive Board of the Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA),
reports ITRealms.
His election came as part of the agenda for the 8th
Annual General Meeting (AGM) held at the NIRA House, Iponri-Lagos.
ITRealms recalls that Engr. Ike Nnamani runs Medalion, which is provides interconnect exchange services in Nigeria with customers cutting across the operators of the Global System for Mobile (GSM( communications, Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), Fixed Line, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and Value Added Service Providers (VAS).
The Chief Executive Officer of Medallion Communications
Limited, Engineer Ikechukwu Nnamani was Friday elected into the Executive Board
of the Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA).
His election came as part of the agenda for the 8th
Annual General Meeting (AGM) held at the NIRA House, Iponri-Lagos.
ITRealms recalls that Engr. Ikechukwu Nnamani is the President/Chief
Executive Officer of Medallion Communications Limited, a company that strives
and carved out a niche in the Nigerian telecom industry as an authority in
interconnect exchange clearinghouse services.
Also, ITRealms reports that Medallion currently has 70
telecom operators in Nigeria as it customer including all the major Global System for Mobile (GSM) communication, Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA),
Fixed Line, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and Value Added Service (VAS) Providers, as well as hosting site for the Nigerian Internet Registration Association (NIRA) domain servers as
well as a site for the Nigerian Internet Exchange Point. Several crucial
infrastructure providers, such as Google, International Gateway Providers among other also hosted at Medallion.
With over 15 years of core
telecom experience, ITRealms gathered that Engr. Nnamani is very active in promoting forward looking
industry policies for the growth of the telecom industry across Africa working
with both regulators as well as operators to achieve this goal.
He currently
acts as an Executive of the premier telecom body in Nigeria - the Association
of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) where he is responsible for
coordinating the activities of the Licensed Telecommunication Operators in
Nigeria under the body.
Engr. Nnamani is also the Vice
Chairman of the Association of Interconnect Clearinghouse Operators of Nigeria,
the umbrella association of the Interconnect Clearinghouse service providers in
Nigeria.
He has also promoted the
establishment of Interconnect Clearinghouses in Africa, working recently with
the Ghanaian Telecom Regulator (NCA) in the creation of the Interconnect
Clearinghouse license in Ghana.
He is presently helping to ensure there is a
successful implementation of the license in the country. He is also active in
creating regulatory policies for seamless interconnection across West, East,
and South Africa sub regions.
Engr. Nnamani has extensive international experience having
worked as an optical systems engineer at Luxcore Networks Incorporated in
Atlanta Georgia, United States of America (USA). Whereas at Luxcore, Ike
Nnamani as he is fondly called, was part of the team that designed and led to the manufacturing of
Luxcore’s Semiconductor Waveguide Optical Regenerative Device (SWORD), the
acclaimed world’s first integrated photonic wavelength converter chip, which
ensures non-blocking of traffic flow in telecommunication networks.
Equally, Ike Nnamani played a key role in the design and
manufacture of Luxcore's LambdaXchange, another world’s first demonstrated
all-optical router, which won the best system award at the 2001 Optical Fiber
Conference at Anaheim, California.
In addition, Ike Nnamani as a researcher at the Design
Methodologies Laboratory, Tennessee State University, was deeply concerned in
the conceptualization, and design of a now patented Expanded Accommodation Tool
(EAT) used in the Joint Strike Force project by the United State Military;
which was executed on behalf of Boeing Aerospace in St Louis, Missouri.
Engr. Nnamani received numerous awards from Boeing Aerospace
for his contribution to the success of the project and went on to join forces
in designing and successfully test-run a prototype of Trident II submarine
umbilical retract mechanism used by the United States Navy’s Strategic
Ballistic Missiles Defense Programme, which earned him a United States Navy
plaque for outstanding work on the project.
Ike Nnamani’s work has been published in numerous
international publications including the Boeing Aerospace newsletter, and the
2002 Region XI technical journal of American Society of Mechanical Engineers
(ASME) International.
Engr. Ikechukwu Nnamani holds a
Master’s in Mechanical Engineering degree from Tennessee
State University ,
Nashville Tennessee ,
USA as well as a Bachelor in
Mechanical Engineering degree from University
of Nigeria
Congratulations Ike Nnamani.
Pix shows the Executive Director, Operations, DigitalSENSE Africa Media Ltd, Mrs. Nkemdilim Nweke, congratulating Mr. Ike Nnamani on his election to NIRA Executive Board.
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