Michele McCann is the Head of Interconnection and Peering at Teraco.<\/p>\n
She previously served as a Business Development Manager at NAPAfrica, the largest Internet exchange in Africa.<\/p>\n
McCann is an industry expert in peering, content, and carrier aggregation and has a key understanding of the opportunities and challenges within the South Africa market as well as experience with diversification for a global market.<\/p>\n
In this discussion, McCann speaks about the digital transformation reality and why companies need to be aware of the trends driving digital transformation.<\/p>\n
She mentions the importance of interconnection within a company’s digital transformation strategy, highlighting key factors such as latency and security.<\/p>\n
McCann also says that Teraco has seen a significant increase in traffic across the NAPAfrica exchange during the lockdown period, showing how data usage changed once people were working from home.<\/p>\n
She sheds light on the recent launch of local regions for major international cloud providers and demonstrated the benefits of this rollout.<\/p>\n
The full discussion with Teraco Head of Interconnection Michele McCann is embedded below.<\/p>\n