{"id":14547,"date":"2017-06-20T14:12:51","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T13:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=14547"},"modified":"2017-06-20T14:12:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T13:12:51","slug":"mainone-launches-plan-to-become-west-africas-largest-internet-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/mainone-launches-plan-to-become-west-africas-largest-internet-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"MainOne launches plan to become West Africa\u2019s largest internet hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"yiv6470634611gmail-MsoNormalTable\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p class=\"yiv6470634611MsoNormal\">Following the partnership of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.MainOne.net\">MainOne<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0Data Center company, MDXi, with the Nigerian Internet Exchange, (IXPN) to improve national transit traffic in Nigeria, the company has recently announced a new interconnect service for carriers, enterprises and ISPs called Open-Connect. Open-Connect is a service that facilitates improved interconnection, collaboration and peering within the MDXi Lekki data center and the Internet Exchange. The product will enable the creation of an environment that allows colocated customers connect to multiple networks, cloud and content providers while significantly reducing the cost of backhaul links to various providers and it offers competitive pricing in an open access, carrier neutral environment.<\/p>\n<p>Open-Connect guarantees the best cross connect services in Nigeria, enabling customers bypass the public internet and connect directly to partners, cloud and SaaS providers with secure, reliable and flexible direct connections. With connections to internet exchanges in Lagos, Amsterdam, London and Ghana and 50+ Points of Presence locations across West Africa, MainOne enables carriers, ISPs, content providers and enterprises of all sizes to quickly and easily increase their network footprint without investing heavily in additional infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTraffic growth is a useful indicator of the health of the entire Internet ecosystem, and helps to measure the development of the digital economy. This new interconnection service for customers within our Data Center will significantly improve traffic growth and localization in Nigeria, with reduced latency, improved speed and better quality of services to end users. This solution will enable more operators and carriers take advantage of the connections of the IXPN within MainOne\u2019s connected Data Center and enhance Internet traffic originating and terminating on any network in Nigeria to remain in-country\u201d says Funke Opeke, Chief Executive Officer of MainOne.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>MainOne\u2019s Open-Connect service takes advantage of the company\u2019s recent partnership with the Nigerian Internet Exchange, which provides the Exchange with an IPV4\/V6 network, backed by diverse backhaul, links across Lagos and Nigeria. The data center, MDXi, West Africa\u2019s premier vendor-neutral data center is directly connected to MainOne\u2019s 1.92TBPS submarine cable. Home of West Africa\u2019s biggest internet exchange (IXPN), MainOne\u2019s Data Center is Africa\u2019s only Tier III facility with PCI DSS, ISO 27001 and 9001 certifications.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/p><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the partnership of MainOne\u2019s\u00a0Data Center company, MDXi, with the Nigerian Internet Exchange, (IXPN) to improve national transit traffic in Nigeria, the company has recently announced a new interconnect service for carriers, enterprises and ISPs called Open-Connect. 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