The London Internet Exchange (LINX) announced on Monday it has signed a co-operative agreement with internet exchange incubator Asteroid to take over its interconnection operations in Kenya.
Under the agreement terms, Asteroid and LINX will work together from now until the end of this year to transition customer networks connected at Asteroid Mombasa and Nairobi to LINX’s internet exchange points (IXPs) in those cities.
LINX said that Asteroid’s customer networks will be supported by technical stakeholders in both companies to ensure a smooth transition.
Asteroid customers will be able to maintain and scale their network further on a local level with access to potential new peers in new locations in Kenya and also globally with LINX locations in the UK and US and – coming soon – Ghana via a partnership deal with Digital Realty.
They will also have access to additional interconnection services such as LINX Private VLAN and solutions such as the Microsoft Azure Peering Service (MAPS), LINX said.
Asteroid first set up its Mombasa and Nairobi interconnection points in 2020, which Asteroid CEO Remco van Mook said “drastically changed the landscape for interconnectivity” in Kenya.
“This agreement plays into each of our strengths – this is the third interconnection market we have successfully incubated; LINX is great at running large IXP platforms,” van Mook said in a statement. “Asteroid’s job in Kenya is done.”
“We will drive to continue the amazing work Asteroid has achieved in Kenya and look forward to working with their customers on the next step of their interconnection journey,” added LINX CEO Jennifer Holmes.
LINX Nairobi was launched in 2023, while LINX Mombasa opened for business in February 2025 – both via Kenyan data center firm iColo, which Digital Realty purchased in 2019 via its unit Interxion.
