Converge ICT, the country’s first pure end-to-end fiber internet provider, has doubled its bandwidth to PHOpenIX, the only open and neutral internet exchange in the country that enables the exchanges of internet traffic in a free-market environment among local internet and data service carriers.
Aimed at optimizing internet usage in the country, PHOpenIX, is operated by the Advanced Science and Technology Institute (ASTI) under the Department of Science and Technology (DoST), mandated to lead the research and development of technology solutions to modernize information and communications technology (ICT) and microelectronics in the country.
The current pandemic has practically funneled everyone toward online activities and transactions. This has been a major contributing factor to the increase of internet traffic throughout the country. To help address this situation, Converge ICT voluntarily doubled to 20 gigabytes per second its port capacity with PHOpenIX. This helps enable internet users to experience lower latency by keeping local traffic locally routed between all service providers connected through PHOpenIX, as well as government websites. The extra capacity contributes to unclogging traffic between service providers who are openly connected to PHOpenIX.
