A new regional project will bring together Internet experts from around the world to help develop Internet infrastructure in Guadeloupe, Saint-Martin and Saint-Barthélémy. Called CaribIX, it will consist of ordering, controlling and securing DATA traffic while also providing a better local telecommunications service to operators and users alike.
The various actors of this ambitious project had invited the press for a virtual launch where the speakers each took the floor to detail the aspects. CaribIX is co-financed by the Interreg Caribbean programme, the total cost of which is €670.072, half from the European Union's European Development Fund. The Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU), represented at the presentation by Bevil Wooding (CTU Special Advisor), Rodney Taylor (CTU General Secretary) and Gary Kalloo (CTU Business Development Manager), is coordinating the regional project. In order to formalize the said launch, an agreement was signed between Rodney Taylor and Gilles Bajazet, director of the Interreg Caribbean secretariat. The objective of CaribIX is to create an economically viable high-speed Internet network and to facilitate the exchange of Internet traffic between French-speaking territories and other Caribbean countries via IXPs. An Internet exchange point or IXP (Internet Exchange Point) is an infrastructure that allows Internet operators to interconnect their networks in order to exchange traffic at the local level without having to resort to costly international infrastructure such as submarine cables. In Saint-Martin, the project's implementing partner, TelEm, intends to use the IXP to create a digital bridge to the existing internet infrastructure for better inter-island traffic exchange. Omar Morales, head of mission at the Collectivity, underlined the importance of the creation of IXPs to strengthen the resilience of digital services. On the Guadeloupe side, Jean-Claude Nelson, 9th vice-president, intends to continue the development of a new digital economy around data. The deputy director of technical services at the Collectivity of Saint-Barthélémy, Pascal Peuchot, wishes to use the IXP to help with local telecommunications routing while improving the experience of users of Internet services and telecommunications on the island. There are currently twelve Internet Exchange Points in the Caribbean. The provisional duration of the CaribIX project is 9 months. _VX
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