Nigeria's Internet exchange set to come on stream
Jonah Iboma A national Internet Exchange Point that will facilitate the keeping of local internet traffic within the country’s telecom network is set to become operational following the completion of work on the facility to provide the service. Our correspondent gathered at the 5th International Nigeria Telecommunications Forum in Abuja Wednesday that about N30m had been spent on the project and a formal commissioning by the President Olusegun Obasanjo is being planned for early October. President of the Internet Service Providers Association of Nigeria, Mr. Samuel Adeleke, who revealed this in an interview with our correspondent, said that the project by keeping local internet within the shores of the country, would lead to a reduction of investment operators commit to international bandwidth, especially Internet service providers and telecommunications operators. An exchnage otherwise called as IXP, is a physical infrastructure that allows different ISPs to exchange Internet traffic