In a significant development for the Internet and Internet users in Sierra Leone, leaders from business, government, and the national Internet community gathered in Freetown last week to launch a new Internet exchange point (IXP).

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PMC-Sierra, Inc., an Internet infrastructure semiconductor solution provider, has announced the industry’s first pluggable GPON Optical Network Terminal (ONT) reference design (PAS65823A-KIT) that can connect any Customer Premises Equipment (CPE) equipped with a standard SFP port to a high-speed Passive Optical Network.

“The surge in mobile data and broadband traffic is somewhat of a double-edged sword,” says Aingharan Kanagaratnam, Head of Engagement Practice: Mobile Broadband at Ericsson.

Gateway Business, a Vodacom Group company and supplier of African telecommunications services has selected Cisco for its multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) network in Nigeria and across sub-Saharan Africa.