How AFR-IX telecom come to be here?

2021

January 1

In progress…

• Member of Asteroid Mombasa IXP
• Member of KINIX (Kinshasa)

2020

January 1

Barcelona Cable Landing Station was born

• Barcelona Cable Landing Station launched
• Subsidiary in Cameroun
• Subsidiary in South Africa
• Member of NAPAfrica
• Member of Djibouti IX
• Member of IXPN (Nigeria)
• New POP in the Americas: Equinix IX Ashburn

2019

January 1

New regional offices in West Africa

• AFR-IX telecom Ghana
• AFR-IX telecom Nigeria
• AFR-IX telecom Côte D’Ivoire
• AFR-IX telecom Mali
• AFR-IX telecom Niger
• COMTECH DRC was born
• Member of DE-CIX
• More than 50 POPS (annual growth rate >100%)

2018

January 1

New offices in Africa

• SISCO (Sierra Leone) was born
• M’DATA telecom was born
• Members of GigaPIX and DECIX
• + 10G international traffic
• Operator license for submarine cables

2017

January 1