Project Timeline
How AFR-IX telecom come to be here?
In progress…
• Member of Asteroid Mombasa IXP
• Member of KINIX (Kinshasa)
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
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%)
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
AFR-IX telecom company was born
• AFR-IX telecom was born
• First peering: France-IX
Holding structure company
• Holding structure company (Zunder Systems S.L.), under the laws of Spain
• POP in Paris
First POPs
• First NNI with International TIER
• POP in London
• Google Connection at Lisbon
AFR-IX telecom project started
• Incorporated in 2013
• Telecommunication license since October 2013 (Anacom – Portugal)