Internet interconnection infrastructure: lessons from the global South

Internet interconnection infrastructure: lessons from the global South

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This article examines the formation of the first internet exchange Anti-static tools point (IXP) in Mexico amid the implementation of telecommunication reforms and asymmetric regulations in a market with low level of competition.An IXP is defined as a shared interconnection facility and a key internet governance arena where players with myriad goals and functions mesh in interlaced technical and political dynamics.The study shows how data centres, passive infrastructure and autonomous system numbers play a critical role that stand out in the context of lack of infrastructure in Mexico.The paper argues that the challenges for Hair Styling an IXP to become stable in such a context in the global South is a result of IXP imagined affordances and the way that infrastructure, the telecommunications incumbent, its competitors, the state regulator, and the IXP operator interact, keeping the initiative in a fragile equilibrium.