23Tbps and counting
Teraco Data Environments (Teraco) is showing strong growth in the South African hosting space, with all of South Africa’s major telecommunications players having a point of presence in the company’s data centres (DC).
Since Teraco launched its first hosting facility in Cape Town in 2008, the company has grown its presence to Johannesburg and Durban and now has over 5,000 square meters of DC space.
Teraco’s client list reads like a who’s who in the South African telecoms market, and includes Telkom, Neotel, Vodacom, MTN, Cell C, Seacom, Broadband Infraco and Dark Fibre Africa.
These providers all bring bandwidth into the Teraco facilities, and the company said that there is currently around 23Tbps bandwidth coming into their Isando DC.
Business booming
Teraco MD Lex van Wyk said that business has been very good so far this year, and he expects this trend to continue.
Van Wyk highlighted that their vendor neutral hosting environments make the company popular among telecoms operators, clearly illustrated by the fact that all international cable systems have a point of presence in Teraco.
Teraco recently unveiled their Africa Cloud eXchange (ACX), offering cloud services throughout Africa using their vendor neutral DCs and connectivity through the international cable systems.
“Our facilities in South Africa already boast connectivity to all the undersea cables offering a combined 28 landing points along the East and West coasts of the continent. This in effect means the Africa Cloud eXchange is already in operation,” said van Wyk.
The company’s NAPAfrica free and public peering facility is also gaining momentum, and has grown traffic volumes from 64Mbps to over 300Mbps over the last few months.
According to Teraco there is also a great amount of direct peering taking place, which amounts to around 21Tbps of traffic exchanged between their clients.
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