FEATURE : INTERCONNECTION
One of the most significant benefits of an active peering community is cost-effective , efficient distribution of content and the demand for business services like cloud and entertainment just continues to increase explains Jan Hnizdo and Michele McCann at Teraco .
KwaZulu-Natal . Teraco is a Digital Realty Company , and Africa ’ s largest interconnection hub and vendorneutral datacentre provider .
As South Africa ’ s third largest city with a population of over three million people , home to thriving digitally connected enterprises and a key South African manufacturing hub , Durban is experiencing demand for additional datacentre capacity and thus a logical destination for Teraco ’ s continued investment into datacentre infrastructure on the African continent .
Content providers and enterprises looking to expand into Africa can accelerate their plans by partnering with the right infrastructure providers as businesses commit to moving more of their functions to the cloud . The continued surge in data traffic is thanks to an African Internet community that has embraced the value of peering , the increasing use of data-intensive applications , enterprises continuing to move into the cloud , and the ever-increasing demand for video , content , and gaming delivery services . These trends have driven greater traffic levels between cloud and service providers , enterprises , and end users .
One of the most significant benefits of an active peering community , or IXP is the cost-effective , efficient distribution of content to the consumer , and the demand for business services like cloud and entertainment just continues to increase . An overview of datacentre and peering investments and operations in the South African market .
Durban
Teraco announced the completion of the expansion project at its DB1 facility , the largest datacentre in
Situated on Durban ’ s north coast , Teraco DB1 is a strategic interconnection hub on the African subsea cable map with direct access to the Seacom , EASSy , MÉTISS , and soon-to-be-deployed 2Africa cable systems that connect the east coast of Africa .
Teraco ’ s DB1 facility is connected to the Teraco campus in Isando , Johannesburg , through a wide choice of carriers via diverse regional fibre routes enabling clients to increase the number of partners they connect with and expand their reach into new markets .
The newly expanded facility supports the growing demand by enterprises and cloud service providers for datacentre capacity . DB1 offers highly resilient and secure colocation facilities in line with Teraco ’ s long-term vision of enabling digital transformation across Africa .
The expansion has doubled DB1 ’ s capacity to 2.2 megawatts , MW of critical power load . The facility now comprises 5,800 square metres of building structure accommodating over 700 racks . The DB1 facility provides enterprises with direct access to Platform Teraco , a rich ecosystem of over 250 network providers , global cloud on-ramps , subsea cable systems , access to over 100 managed service
Arrival of African vendor neutral datacentres , Internet peering exchanges
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