IXPN is a non-for-profit and membership based organisation. IXPN provides a platform where networks interconnect directly within Nigeria, to ensure that local Internet traffic remains local, rather than having to transcend boundaries of different countries before reaching its recipients within the same locality. The advantages of the direct interconnection are numerous, but the primary reasons are cost reduction, low latency, and increased internet bandwidth.
Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN) is currently the Regional Internet Exchange Point (RIXP) for West Africa with over eighty (80) active networks interconnected – Google, Facebook, Microsoft, all Nigerian Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) among others are already connected.
