The London Internet Exchange (LINX) is expanding its African connectivity platform to include PAIX Data Centres in Nairobi in response to local networking community demand.

The internet exchange announced today that networks at the PAIX facility in Nairobi will soon be just a single cross connect away from peering opportunities with any network present at LINX Nairobi, including global content networks like Meta and local internet service providers such as ICON Fibre, Mtaani Telecom, Mymanga Networks, and PepeaNet.

LINX Nairobi says it has a fully interconnected and dual fibre infrastructure between the data centre sites for full resilience and redundancy.

The addition of PAIX will enhance the LINX fabric to a four-site interconnection hub and the installation work is being prepared and looking to go live in the coming weeks, according the internet exchange.

PAIX Nairobi NBO-1 is located at the Britam Tower in Upper Hill, Nairobi, the central business district and a known key financial hub for East and Central Africa. 

Emmanuel Makina, sales manager of PAIX Data Centres, says: “With our cloud- and carrier-neutral data centre located in the centre of the business district, we host communities of interest for the financial and content industries, so that includes financial services, advertising, broadcasting, and entertainment companies.

“The customers that host their mission critical equipment in our facility have a requirement to be online 24x7 in today’s digital economy. They all benefit from being able to connect to multiple networks, easily scale their bandwidth, reduce their connectivity costs, and have the lowest latency to their partners.” 

Jennifer Holmes, CCO for LINX, comments: “By expanding the peering opportunities to the customers at PAIX we are adding value to the entire LINX Nairobi community and prospective new local and global networks that we are in talks with.” 

 For Wouter van Hulten, CEO and founder, PAIX Data Centres is fully committed to the development of Kenya’s digital infrastructure, with support for all the latest AI hardware and software.

Van Hulten explains: “PAIX Data Centres is invested in by Africa50, a private equity fund in which the Republic of Kenya is a shareholder. We are building and operating the infrastructure to enable Africa’s digital economy, with local data centres, local teams, and world class operations, all essential ingredients for the developments that lie ahead.”