Equinix, a global digital infrastructure company is convening West Africa’s top internet infrastructure stakeholders this Friday in Lagos at PeersConnect, a peer-focused gathering designed to foster interconnection, deepen collaboration, and accelerate digital growth across Nigeria and beyond.

Set against the backdrop of a rapidly expanding digital economy, the event will bring together mobile network operators, ISPs, CDNs, cloud platforms, and regional innovators for informal but strategic conversations on how to expand internet performance and resilience in the region. Peering – the direct exchange of internet traffic between networks – remains a critical building block for improving latency, local content delivery, and cross-border connectivity.

“Events like PeersConnect are about more than networking,” said a representative from Africa Hyperscalers.“They help define the next chapter of Africa’s internet – where low latency, redundancy, and reliability aren’t luxuries, but baseline expectations.”

The event is backed by Workonline Communications, Broadpeak, and AMS-IX, global players whose participation at this inaugural event underscores growing interest in optimizing West Africa’s traffic routes and localizing data at scale.

Attendees will include both technical leaders and business executives shaping network infrastructure investments across West Africa. The event will feature presentations, fireside chats and a setting designed for high-value peer exchange – a hallmark of mature interconnection communities in Europe, Asia, and North America.

The Lagos edition of PeersConnect marks Equinix’s continued investment in West Africa following its acquisition of MainOne in 2022, and its sustained expansion in the region and aligns with broader efforts to position Nigeria as a strategic interconnection hub between global digital systems and Africa’s growing online population.