IXPN records yearly peak traffic growth - ITREALMS

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The Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN) has continued to record yearly peak traffic growth, reports ITREALMS.

Disclosing this to ITREALMS in Lagos, the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of IXPN, Mr. Muhammed Rudman said that the exchange has confidently grown peak traffic annually for the past 10 years.

Rudman was speaking at the 2024 edition of IXPN Members Engagement Forum at the FourPoint by Sheraton, noting that currently, the leading African exchange point has attained 570 Gigabytes per second in traffic, which is a multiple of the unit byte for digital information.

Significantly, Rudman said that IXPN has grown its membership to 116 and still counting.

He revealed that IXPN has seven Point of Presences (PoPs) in Lagos across ICNL, Digital Reality (Medallion), Rack Center, MDXi, Cloud Exchange, ADC and OADC.

Equally, he said that IXPN has PoPs in five cities outside Lagos, namely Abuja, Port Harcourt, Kano, Enugu and Gombe.

IXPN, he also said, has partnered with PCH, ISC and Verisign to have the anycast instance of E-Root, F-Root and J-Root Servers respectively.

Additionally, Rudman said that IXPN collaborated with NIRA to host some of the primary name servers of .ng country code Top Level Domains (ccTLD) locally.

Chuks Egbune/Editor