Low-cost peering infrastructure from Teraco, TIP and NEC XON

Anthony Laing, GM of Networking at NEC XON

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Meeting Africa’s Internet (and business) growth needs
​​Teraco, Africa’s leading carrier-neutral colocation provider, originally broke the high-cost Internet peering spell in South Africa with NAPAfrica. Where customers collectively used to fork out millions of Rands every year to connect across major carriers, Teraco allowed them to peer for free simply by locating in their datacentres – which offered free peering by default. However, notwithstanding NAPAfrica’s low-cost peering, Teraco and its customers remained locked into high-cost proprietary hardware and software providers.

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