MAINONE PLANS TO RULE WA WITH INTERNET OPEN-CONNECT
MainOne, a telecom company in Nigeria gas said that it is working towards dominating the entire West Africa with Open-Connect Service.
Making this statement through the company’ website in Abuja is Mrs. Funke Opeke, the Chief Executive Officer of MainOne.
The company has a submarine communications cable that stretches from Portugal to South Africa with landings along the route in various West African countries.
It provides world class network, internet solutions, voice, data centre and cloud services to providers in Nigeria, Ghana and all of West Africa.
“Following partnership of MainOne’s (www.MainOne.net) Data Center company, MDXi with 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.
According to Opeke the product will enable the creation of an environment that allows collocated customers connect to multiple networks, cloud and content providers, and this she said would significantly reduce the cost of backhaul links to various providers and offer competitive pricing in an open access, carrier neutral environment.
She added that Open-Connect guarantees the best cross connect services in Nigeria enabling customers bypass the public internet and connect directly to partners, cloud and other 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 easily increase their network footprint.
“This is done without investing heavily in additional infrastructure, “Opeke said.
While saying that the traffic growth was a useful indicator of the health of the entire Internet ecosystem, she also added that it would help to measure the development of the digital economy.
She further stated that the new interconnection service for customers within the Data Centre would significantly improve traffic growth and localisation in Nigeria with reduced latency, improved speed and better quality of services to end users.
Opeke explained that the solution would enable more operators and carriers to take advantage of connections of IXPN within MainOne’s connected Data Centre and enhanced Internet traffic originating and terminating on any network in Nigeria to remain in-country.
“MainOne’s Open-Connect service takes advantage of the company’s 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 centre, West Africa’s premier vendor-neutral data centre is directly connected to MainOne’s 1.92TBPS submarine cable.’’
“Home of West Africa’s biggest internet exchange (IXPN), MainOne’s Data Centre is Africa’s only Tier III facility with PCI DSS, ISO 27001 and 9001 certifications, “she added.
