ACIX Adds 1 Kinshasa Site, Becoming DRC's First Distributed Internet Exchange
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Updated · ComputerWeekly.com · May 19
ACIX Adds 1 Kinshasa Site, Becoming DRC's First Distributed Internet Exchange
3 articles · Updated · ComputerWeekly.com · May 19
OADC Texaf’s Kinshasa FIH1 facility has been added to ACIX, giving the exchange a second datacentre presence and making it the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s first distributed IX.
DE-CIX operates ACIX for NGO Internet Pour Tous under its DaaS program, with United SA involved in the rollout to build a neutral interconnection platform for licensed operators, ISPs, mobile networks and cloud providers.
The expansion is meant to keep more traffic local, cut latency and connectivity costs, and improve resilience for services ranging from education to internet banking.
Founded in 2023, ACIX is being positioned as a Kinshasa-based hub for equatorial Africa, using the city’s location between the continent’s dense population centers to link networks from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean.
With an €8 billion digital plan, is this exchange the key step to making the DRC a true regional tech hub?
Can this new internet hub truly connect a nation where 70% of the population remains completely offline?