East Africa cloud services provider Angani Ltd has extended its footprint to LINX Nairobi.
The company joined LINX Mombasa in 2025 and this latest announcement builds on that. It allows the company to exchange internet traffic more efficiently across Kenya’s two London Internet Exchange (LINX) interconnection hubs.
LINX launched LINX Nairobi, its first internet exchange in Africa, in 2023 and now has more than 55 connected networks including TikTok and Starlink. The operator later launched LINX Mombasa in 2025 to provide an additional interconnection point close to East Africa’s major subsea cable landing stations.
According to LINX, traffic across its Kenyan exchange points has grown twenty-fold over the past year, reaching a peak of more than 330Gbps.
Patrick Mbogo Business Executive for Africa at LINX said, “This is exactly what we encourage our members to do. A 10GE port and 4Gbps of service at each global LINX location is included in the membership fee to really encourage regional peering to keep traffic as close to the end user as possible.”
Angani says local peering is central to its network strategy, noting that around 80% of its traffic is local. The company believes connecting to both LINX Nairobi and LINX Mombasa will help customers benefit from lower latency, improved access to international content delivery networks (CDNs), and greater network resilience.
Commenting on this, Denson Ngumo from Angani said, “As a local cloud provider, local peering is instrumental for us. 80% of our traffic is local and that is supported by us connecting to an IXP…”
“Connecting to LINX Nairobi was a matter of when and not if. Having already seen the number of peers our Mombasa POP got access to, peering at LINX Nairobi was a no-brainer. Being part of the LINX ecosystem allows us to give our customers access to cloud services at the lowest latency possible, access to international CDNs and overall network resiliency. We also appreciate LINX’s support of the ecosystem via their numerous events and capacity building sessions.”
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