{"id":118161,"date":"2015-02-04T11:02:14","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T09:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=118161"},"modified":"2015-02-04T11:08:58","modified_gmt":"2015-02-04T09:08:58","slug":"napafrica-ixp-cracks-20gbps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/118161-napafrica-ixp-cracks-20gbps.html","title":{"rendered":"NAPAfrica IXP cracks 20Gbps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAPAfrica announced that it has reached a throughput of 20Gbps with more than 180 members across its locations in Cape Town, Durban, and Johannesburg. This makes NAPAfrica one of Africa\u2019s largest <a title=\"Internet Exchange\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Internet_exchange_point\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Internet exchanges.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Established in 2012, NAPAfrica\u2019s aim is to stimulate the development of a neutral Internet exchange and reduce IP interconnection costs and complexity in sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to ensure that content is no longer sourced from Europe, but cached and available locally on the African continent,\u201d said Lex van Wyk, CEO of Teraco: the home of NAPAfrica.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeraco gives clients access to the largest community of local and global content, undersea cable operators, sub-Saharan carriers, ISPs, and cloud operators,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Teraco and NAPAfrica are already home to many content delivery networks, including CloudFlare and Akamai.<\/p>\n<p>Akamai has also recently undergone additional bandwidth upgrades to distribute more content locally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe benefits of connecting to NAPAfrica includes 100% free peering &#8211; no membership or port fees,\u201d said van Wyk.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Teraco and NAPAfrica<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"NAPAfrica Internet Exchange cracks 15Gbps\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hosting-storage\/106401-napafrica-internet-exchange-cracks-15gbps.html\"><strong>NAPAfrica Internet Exchange cracks 15Gbps<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Teraco gets R400 million for new Joburg DC\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hosting-storage\/117585-teraco-gets-r400-million-for-new-joburg-dc.html\">Teraco gets R400 million for new Joburg DC<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/91631-teraco-adds-another-data-centre.html\">Teraco adds another data centre<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAPAfrica reached a throughput of 20Gbps with more than 180 members across its locations in Cape Town, Durban, and Johannesburg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":72740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[36,445,6673,441],"class_list":["post-118161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-active","tag-lex-van-wyk","tag-napafrica","tag-teraco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118161"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118165,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118161\/revisions\/118165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}