National Daily

Galaxy Backbone expands coverage

MANAGING Director of Galaxy Backbone Plc, Gerald Illukwe has explained that the company's strategy is based on one of the most significant market developments which is the separation of infrastructure and services and the enabling of an open architecture that fosters interaction at different layers of physical infrastructure transmission and services (application and content)- in one dimension and interactivity with various customer models, wholesalers and retailers in another dimension while channelling the interaction with Government through streamlined and coordinated people and private sector interfaces.

Speaking at a Business Summit on ICT development held in Lagos recently, he noted that the strategy directly addresses one key area that limits Open Access which is market failure where services and infrastructure is unavailable to the bottom of the pyramid users.

Galaxy Backbone has almost concluded two major projects- NICEP and NICTIB. Both projects are expected to deliver a 5000 node VSAT network across Nigeria and a national data centre and fibre optic metropolitan area network in the FCT, interconnecting all Federal Government ministries, departments and agencies