The London Internet Exchange (LINX) has recorded a twenty-fold increase in traffic across its Kenyan infrastructure over the past year.
According to the company, its two nodes, LINX Nairobi and LINX Mombasa, reached a combined peak of over 330 Gbps.
LINX Kenya revealed this during its first LINX Connect Kenya member event in Nairobi last week. The event brought together local Internet Service Providers, data centre partners, and industry stakeholders to mark the growth of LINX’s interconnection ecosystem in the region since it entered the Kenyan market with the launch of its Nairobi Internet Exchange Point in November 2023.
LINX Head of Existing Business Inga Turner said the results reflected the strength of a community-led approach to building interconnection infrastructure in the region. “The success of our first LINX Connect Kenya event for our members is a testament to the vibrant and rapidly growing interconnection community we’ve built in Nairobi and Mombasa,” she said. “Our focus on collaboration, working with local partners while bringing global connectivity opportunities to the region, has been central to this success.”
In Nairobi, LINX operates across four data centre sites interconnected by dual fibre for resilience and redundancy. The exchange also offers the Microsoft Azure Peering Service, enabling networks that do not meet Microsoft’s standard traffic thresholds to establish direct peering sessions with its cloud infrastructure, a capability that broadens access for smaller local operators.
LINX Mombasa has emerged as a particularly fast-growing node, recording maximum traffic peaks of over 210Gbps in just over a year of operation. The coastal city’s strategic position as a landing point for multiple international subsea cables connecting Africa to Europe, the Middle East, and Asia makes it a critical hub for regional traffic localisation, latency reduction, and network resilience.
LINX further consolidated its Kenyan footprint in September 2025 through a co-operation agreement with Asteroid, acquiring its Kenyan customer base and expanding its local membership community.
The traffic milestone positions LINX as one of the more consequential entrants into East Africa’s growing internet exchange market, where demand for localised traffic exchange has been driven by rising data consumption, cloud adoption, and the expansion of subsea cable capacity landing on the continent’s eastern coast.
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