Cairo Regional Internet Exchange

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The Cairo Regional Internet Exchange Point (CRIXP) was formed in Cairo, Egypt by a joint venture between National Telecom Company (NTC) and its subsidiary ECC Solution along with the British FLAG Telecom. The exchange was officially inaugurated in Cairo on December 18, 2002 by the then Minister of Communications & Information Technology, H. E. Dr. Ahmed Nazif.

CRIX is the central peering point for local and regional Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Egypt and the Middle East. Its purpose is to efficiently route all intra-Regional Internet traffic among the operators without having to pass through the United States or Europe. This allows the regional data carriers to significantly optimize upstream capacity costs, enhance their existing bandwidth capacities and reduce the size of the routing tables worldwide. CRIX is hosted by [ECC] at its data center.

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Abdel-Hameed Nawar, "E-Commerce" Lecture Notes, Cairo University, Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Egypt, 2005.

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