Nigeria: IXPN Facility to Generate $20 Million in Savings

18 January 2011

With the commissioning of the first Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria, (IXPN) last week in Lagos by the Nigerian Communication Commission, (NCC), Nigeria is expected to experience immediate drop in connectivity costs to the tune of more than $20 million in offshore bandwidth payments in the first year of operations.

Technically, an Internet Exchange Point is a physical Network infrastructure that allows several ISPs and several network operators to exchange traffic among their networks. The facility, it was gathered, is expected to have branches in Ibadan, Port Harcourt, Abuja, Enugu, Kano and Maiduguri as well as other states of the Federation in the near future.

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