NAPAfrica, Africa’s leading internet exchange point, has crossed a peak traffic of 3.95 TBPS, almost doubling its traffic from 2.1 TBPS in 2 years.
This recent accomplishment underscores NAPAfrica’s ongoing expansion, reinforcing its role as a peering hub in Africa’s growing digital landscape.
In a statement, the company said “We’re excited to share our growth stats for October which continues to highlight our journey towards connecting more businesses, communities, and individuals in the digital world.” “With each new addition, our diverse ecosystem becomes even more robust, fostering innovation, collaboration, and digital transformation”, NAPAfrica commented.
NAPAfrica now hosts 625 Autonomous System Numbers (ASNs) from over 50 countries and continues to be at the forefront of driving digital evolution, providing a robust platform for enhanced connectivity and collaboration within the global digital landscape.
Speaking on the growth of NAPAfrica, Jan Hnizdo, CEO, Teraco said “The growth of NAPAfrica is a great African success story.” NAPAfrica’s infrastructure resides within Teraco’s vendor-neutral colocation data centers located in Cape Town, Durban, and Johannesburg. “What started as an idea to attract global content to African shores while also improving latency, has emerged as a leading interconnection hub that is shaping the growth and access of the fibre internet across the African continent”, Hnizdo continued.
NAPAfrica has made it possible for its 625 peering members to access global content within African borders and keep local traffic local. Newer enterprises join the NAPAfrica peering community to improve resilience, lower costs, and reduce the latency of accessing content and applications such as Microsoft 365, AWS Cloudfront, Akamai and Cloudflare. African enterprises are leveraging the benefits of peering by connecting with cloud deployments, networks, security providers, and content providers within the NAPAfrica ecosystem as part of their move to a digital economy.
NAPAfrica has also become a cornerstone for organizations in supporting their internet and communication needs with work-from-home strategies.
Established in 2012, with the aim to stimulate the development of an Internet exchange (IXP) within a truly vendor-neutral environment, NAPAfrica has grown into the continent’s biggest IXP and the 6th largest globally by number of member connections.
