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TTIX one step clos­er to set­ting up a lo­cal IXP

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Trinidad and To­ba­go is one step clos­er to es­tab­lish­ing its own In­ter­net Ex­change Point (IXP).

The board of the Trinidad and To­ba­go In­ter­net Ex­change (TTIX), the non-prof­it com­pa­ny that will set up the lo­cal IXP, held its in­au­gur­al meet­ing last month to elect its of­fi­cers.

TTIX in­cludes the coun­try's sev­en ma­jor In­ter­net ser­vice providers (ISPs). Once es­tab­lished, the In­ter­net ex­change point (IXP) will fa­cil­i­tate the ex­change of lo­cal In­ter­net traf­fic be­tween the ISPs.

The IXP will help to keep users' lo­cal com­mu­ni­ca­tions more pri­vate, as it re­duces the re­liance on in­ter­na­tion­al net­work fa­cil­i­ties. Con­sumers can al­so ex­pect to see an im­prove­ment in the speed and ro­bust­ness of In­ter­net ac­cess for lo­cal­ly based con­tent and ser­vices.

These are some of the rea­sons why the IXP is seen as a crit­i­cal com­po­nent of broad­band in­fra­struc­ture that is nec­es­sary for the de­vel­op­ment of a knowl­edge-based so­ci­ety and the pro­lif­er­a­tion of lo­cal­ly-host­ed In­ter­net ap­pli­ca­tions.

There are six IX­Ps in the Caribbean, in Cu­ra­cao (AMS-IX), St Maarten (OCIX), Grena­da (GREX), British Vir­gin Is­lands (BVIX), Haiti and Do­mini­ca (DANIX). TTIX is work­ing to­wards es­tab­lish­ing the IXP in Trinidad and To­ba­go in the first half of 2014.

The TTIX Board is:

Kurleigh Prescod, Colum­bus Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Trinidad Lim­it­ed � Chair­man

Aj­mal Nazir, Green­dot Lim­it­ed � Vice Chair­man

Naris­sa Mustapha, Lisa Com­mu­ni­ca­tions � Trea­sur­er

Gre­go­ry Loe, Open Tele­com Lim­it­ed � Di­rec­tor

Ed Duke, TSTT � Di­rec­tor

Bri­an Jahra, Three Six­ty Com­mu­ni­ca­tions Lim­it­ed � Di­rec­tor

The Sec­re­tary po­si­tion is held by Dig­i­cel (Trinidad and To­ba­go) Lim­it­ed


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