Cisco's Internet exchange

JAKARTA (JP): Cisco Systems, one of the world's largest companies in networking, in cooperation with the Association of Indonesian Internet Service Providers, will build an Internet exchange here to enable local customers to interact directly with one another.

Cisco's head representative and country manager for Indonesia Daniel Tofani said yesterday Cisco would provide four Internet routers to enable local Internet service providers (ISP) to make direct local links with each other.

"Indonesian ISPs are currently not linked with each other. So, if a user of one local ISP sends an e-mail to a user of another local ISP, the e-mail has to be sent to the United States before it is delivered back to the other ISP," Daniel explained.

The association's secretary general Teddy A. Purwadi said that the establishment of an Internet exchange would reduce the cost of telecommunications and boost the growth of Internet usage in the country.

He said that the number of Internet hosts or websites in Indonesia doubled in a year to 10,861 as of July from 5,262 recorded in July last year. (08)