{"id":255253,"date":"2018-04-09T14:41:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T12:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=255253"},"modified":"2018-04-09T14:43:17","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T12:43:17","slug":"teracos-massive-growth-across-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/255253-teracos-massive-growth-across-africa.html","title":{"rendered":"Teraco&#8217;s massive growth across Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teraco has passed 12,000 interconnects and is growing at a rate of 500 interconnects per quarter.<\/p>\n<p>The company said this makes it much easier for its clients to do business and exchange information across Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Teraco is also host to NAPAfrica, Africa&#8217;s largest peering exchange, which is located in the company&#8217;s Cape Town, Durban, and Johannesburg data centres.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The resulting interconnection density within Teraco, alongside NAPAfrica\u2019s drive to bring global content to a local distribution point, has resulted in lower Internet access costs for South Africa and many other sub-Saharan countries,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Most large international content providers now co-locate within Teraco\u2019s data centres, resulting in a much better user experience and lower costs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Teraco said is currently working with certain clients to enhance its Teraco Interconnection Platform, which aims to lower costs and increase agility going forward.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/253655-teraco-expanding-cape-town-data-centre.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Teraco expanding Cape Town data centre<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teraco has passed 12,000 interconnects and is growing at a rate of 500 interconnects per quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":145117,"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":[19476,3616,447,20769,6673,441],"class_list":["post-255253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-durban","tag-cape-town","tag-data-centre","tag-johannesburg","tag-napafrica","tag-teraco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255253"}],"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=255253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255257,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255253\/revisions\/255257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}