About us

AF-CIX Lagos is the fastest growing neutral Internet Exchange Point in Africa, enabling data localisation, better latency, cost effectiveness for Participants, secured cloud access and secured remote network connection. AF-CIX is hosted at Rack Centre, an Uptime tier-III certified carrier neutral Data Centre strategically located at the heart of Lagos mainland.

AF-CIX interconnection platform offers and open peering policy. Powered by DE-CIX, AF-CIX will provide an interconnection ecosystem to reach the African continent in order to fulfil the growing interconnection needs of hundreds of networks – and the end users. For a better user experience, for better and secure cloud access, and for a more interconnected, digital future.

About DE-CIX

DE-CIX provides premium network interconnection services and operates several carrier and data center neutral interconnection platforms in Europe, the Middle East, North America, Asia, and Africa. Founded in 1995, DE-CIX’s Internet Exchange in Frankfurt is the world’s leading interconnection platform.

DE-CIX was one of the first Internet Exchanges worldwide to interconnect networks, and over the years, they successfully created interconnection ecosystems on three continents. They not only create, build, and run interconnection platforms, but build whole interconnection ecosystems for the benefit of all connected networks and businesses. DE-CIX makes interconnection easy. Anywhere.