Cisco's Internet exchange

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)