Teraco announces access to Google’s Africa Cloud Region

What started as an idea to assist global content investment to African shores, while also improving latency, has emerged as a leading interconnection hub says Michele McCann, Head of Platforms at Teraco.

Networks connected to LINX or NAPAfrica can access either exchange via trusted and mutually available carriers.

Agreement will benefit Ecoband's customers, including those in West Africa, allowing for lower latency – of around 66ms between Cape Town and Accra.

According to NAPAfrica, the number of IXPs in Africa has increased from 19 in 2012 to 46 in 2020.

The Indian Ocean Islands have direct access to Teraco’s ecosystem of over 300 networks, 130 IT service providers, 50 global content providers, and the key global cloud providers.

In Cloudscene's 7th publication of the Data Centre Ecosystem Leaderboard, Teraco's JB1 East & West data centre, is ranked 3rd globally in terms of service providers available at the facility.

Two partnerships reflect industry’s response to growing demand for connectivity across the continent.

Angola Cables is expanding its network reach and peering capabilities across the globe.

Layer 2 Internet Exchange Point (IXP) NAPAfrica and Workonline Communications have teamed up with the RIPE NCC to gather Internet data that will help network operators gain further visibility into the structure of the African Internet.