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  1. Hanno Labuschagne

    3 serial entrepreneurs behind Teraco

    3 serial entrepreneurs behind Teraco South Africa's biggest data centre company Teraco was formed by three serial entrepreneurs and telecoms veterans — Abraham van der Merwe, Joe Botha, and Matthew Tagg. The first of the trio to get into the telecoms industry was Tagg, who launched Webafrica...
  2. Jan

    Top neighbourhoods for mobile broadband - March 2023

    Load-shedding crushes data speeds in South Africa's top mobile broadband neighbourhoods Analytico’s latest research shows that Bryanston, Century City and Garsfontein had the fastest mobile Internet in South Africa at the start of 2023. The results are based on 267,853 tests done on the...
  3. Jan

    Pretoria suburbs take top 3 fastest neighbourhoods in South Africa - March 2023

    South Africa's fastest broadband neighbourhoods — with a Pretoria surprise The latest Analytico research shows that Garsfontein had the fastest average fixed-broadband download speed at the start of 2023. The results are based on almost 200,000 tests done on the MyBroadband Speedtest app since...
  4. Jan

    NAPAfrica Internet exchange hits 3Tbps of peering traffic

    NAPAfrica blows past 3Tbps Internet traffic South Africa's biggest Internet exchange point and one of the biggest on the African continent — NAPAfrica — exceeded data throughput of 3 terabits-per-second (Tbps) this past week. That comes just a few days after NAPAfrica told MyBroadband it...
  5. Jan

    How traffic through NAPAfrica grew between 2014 and 2022

    South Africa's 500,000% Internet traffic surge Internet traffic travelling through South Africa's biggest Internet exchange — NAPAfrica — has jumped by over half a million per cent in just over a decade. Africa's largest data centre company — Teraco — launched NAPAfrica as a vendor-neutral...
  6. Jan

    Fastest broadband neighbourhoods in South Africa - Q3 2020

    Neighbourhoods with the highest broadband speeds in South Africa New research by Analytico shows that Fairland in Randburg has the fastest mobile broadband speeds, while Weltevredenpark in Roodepoort has the highest average fixed broadband speeds. The findings are based on speed tests...
  7. Jan

    NAPAfrica and London Internet Exchange announce partnership

    NAPAfrica partners with London Internet Exchange South Africa's biggest Internet Exchange — NAPAfrica — has entered a strategic collaboration with the London Internet Exchange (LINX). The partnership with NAPAfrica will make reaching London and peering at LINX more of a reality for African...
  8. Jan

    Average mobile and fixed broadband speeds - top 10 neighbourhoods 2022 YTD

    Neighbourhoods with the fastest broadband speeds in South Africa MyBroadband research shows that Fairland in Randburg has the fastest average mobile broadband speeds, and Garsfontein in Tshwane has the highest average fixed broadband speeds. The findings are based on millions of speed tests...
  9. Jan

    INX-ZA announces change to Netflix Routerless IXP model

    Netflix data gets cheaper and faster for South Africa's Internet service providers South Africa’s community-run Internet exchange operator INX-ZA has announced a significant change to how Internet service providers access Netflix content across its platform. INX-ZA said that South Africa’s...
  10. Jan

    NAPAfrica Internet traffic up 4420-fold in 10 years

    South African Internet traffic surged 442000% in 10 years Internet traffic flowing through NAPAfrica peaked at around 2.35 Tbps on Friday, 20 May 2022, a surge of over 441,911% since South Africa's biggest Internet exchange launched. South African data centre company Teraco launched NAPAfrica...
  11. Jan

    Neighbourhoods with the fastest broadband speeds in South Africa

    Where to get the fastest broadband speeds in South Africa Randjiespark in Johannesburg has the highest average mobile broadband speed, while Garsfontein in Pretoria has the highest average fixed broadband speed. These findings were revealed in an analysis of 400,000 speed tests done during the...
  12. Jan

    ISPs with the highest average speeds in South Africa - end Aug-Nov 2021

    ISPs with the highest speeds in South Africa Research by MyBroadband Insights revealed that Cybersmart, Webafrica, and Cool Ideas have the highest average performance on their networks. The research is based on 1.9 million speed tests performed on MyBroadband’s speed test website and its speed...
  13. Jan

    South Africa's neighbourhoods with the fastest average broadband speeds

    Top broadband neighbourhoods in South Africa — with one averaging over 78Mbps Fourways in Johannesburg is the neighbourhood in South Africa with the fastest average broadband download speed. This is according to an analysis of 659,117 speed tests performed using MyBroadband’s speed test app on...
  14. Jan

    Suburbs with the fastest mobile data speeds in South Africa

    South African neighbourhoods with the highest mobile speeds New research by MyBroadband Insights revealed that Bryanston, Universitas, and Dan Pienaar are the South African neighbourhoods with the highest average mobile speeds. MyBroadband Insights uses crowdsourced data from the MyBroadband...
  15. Hanno Labuschagne

    South Africa's Internet traffic - 2014 to 2021

    South Africa's Internet traffic - 2014 to 2021 Internet traffic in South Africa has increased rapidly over the last few years, with the country’s biggest exchange now closing in on a peering throughput of 2Tbps. This is according to feedback from data centre company Teraco, which operates...
  16. J

    NAPAfrica reaches 1Tbps traffic milestone

    NAPAfrica reaches 1Tbps traffic milestone Africa's largest Internet Exchange Point (IXP), NAPAfrica has reached a peak traffic milestone of 1 Terabit per second (Tbps). Manager of Interconnection and Peering at Teraco, Andrew Owens, said this is a noteworthy milestone for the continent.
  17. Kevin Lancaster

    NAPAfrica celebrates 5 years as Africa’s largest neutral Internet exchange

    NAPAfrica celebrates 5 years as Africa’s largest neutral Internet exchange NAPAfrica was established in 2012 as Africa’s first neutral Internet exchange point (IXP) and has since become the regional Internet traffic hub for sub-Saharan Africa.
  18. Kevin Lancaster

    NAPAfrica is doing over 100Gbps of traffic

    NAPAfrica is doing over 100Gbps of traffic NAPAfrica’s Johannesburg exchange is seeing an average daily peak of 95Gbps, with Cape Town and Durban adding to the country total.
  19. J

    NAP Africa Congestion

    Hi Guys and Gals in the industry. Since the Apple and Windows updates have been released in the last 2 days, NAP Africa has been HAMMERED!! NAP JHB in particular today, seem to have limited their bandwidth to 90Gbps in total, which is killing ISP's with anything more than a 2Gbps link to...
  20. Kevin Lancaster

    Telkom Openserve peering at NAPAfrica

    Telkom Openserve peering at NAPAfrica Openserve is now peering at NAPAfrica’s Internet exchange points.
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