SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, 28 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
Tenerife has become the first island in the Archipelago to have a neutral traffic exchange point, a key element in the functioning of the Internet that is responsible for connecting the networks of operators and providers of content and services.
This new infrastructure, called WACIX.NET (West Africa- Canary Islands eXchange point), located in Granadilla de Abona and promoted by the operators Wificanarias and Idecnet, has been in operation since this month.
The island councilor for Innovation, Enrique Arriaga, explained that the new neutral point “is housed in the D-ALIX facilities, the data center owned by ITER in Granadilla de Abona”.
“Thanks to this new infrastructure and the neutral environment that D-ALiX offers, WACIX will allow telecommunications operators to connect to improve the quality of connections between clients of different companies, since the WACIX routes traffic between those clients in a seamless way. directly without the need to go to the Peninsula or other neutral points in Europe.”Its objective is none other than to facilitate the exchange of traffic and speed up communications,” stressed Arriaga.
The accommodation of a neutral point in the Canary Islands is an old aspiration of the Internet users and operators of the Archipelago that has had several attempts until finally WACIX has been launched. On this occasion, framed within the largest data center in the Canary Islands, D-ALiX, the project will be able to interconnect the large and medium-sized operators that are hosted there quickly, easily and at low cost.
The first two operators to connect to this neutral point were the wireless network operator Wificanarias and the fiber and data center operator Idecnet.
Membership in this neutral point is free for 1G and 10G links, and you only have to pay for the internal wiring between members. The objective of WACIX is to facilitate the interconnection between Spanish operators among themselves and with others from Africa, whose connections pass through submarine cables that moor in the Canary Islands.
In the first week of operation, the clients of the aforementioned operators exchanged just over 200Gbytes with latencies of less than 1 millisecond.
The D-Alix (Datacenter for ALiX) is a high-availability data processing center framed in the initiative of the ALiX project -together with Canalink and the Technological Institute of Telecommunications of Tenerife (IT3)- and is part of the Institute of Technology and Renewable Energies (ITER).