NetActuate Expands International Transit and Enhances Redundancy Across Key African Locations
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
NetActuate expands international transit and enhances redundancy across key African locations.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 26, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- NetActuate, a leading provider of global infrastructure and connectivity solutions, is proud to announce significant upgrades to its operations in three key African markets: Johannesburg (JNB), Accra (ACC), and Nairobi (NBO). These upgrades include the addition of new international transit capacity, enhancing network redundancy and performance for customers in the region.
NetActuate has bolstered its footprint in these strategically vital locations by adding more international transit providers, which increase redundancy and capacity across the three data centers. This ensures that customers continue to benefit from resilient, high-performance connectivity tailored to support growing business needs.
"Our goal is to ensure that our customers in Africa have access to world-class connectivity," said Mark Mahle, CEO and Co-Founder at NetActuate. "These enhancements enable us to deliver more robust and reliable services, including our enhanced anycast edge solutions, empowering businesses to scale their operations across the continent and globally."
The upgrades not only provide critical resilience for existing infrastructure but also support the growing demand for edge AI inference and training power within the African continent. Reliable, high-capacity connectivity plays a pivotal role in advancing AI-driven innovations, fostering a technological ecosystem that promotes local and international collaboration.
In terms of broader access, NetActuate's expanded network taps into major cable systems to deliver substantial benefits. This includes reduced latency within Africa and optimized routes for traffic between Africa and the rest of the world:
-- SEACOM: Pioneering cable connecting Africa to Europe and Asia along the
eastern coast.
-- West Africa Cable System (WACS): Extends from South Africa to the UK,
linking several African nations to Europe and boosting bandwidth
availability.
-- Eastern Africa Submarine Cable System (EASSy): Connects countries along
the eastern coast and integrates with terrestrial backhaul networks for
deeper inland reach.
-- Africa Coast to Europe (ACE): A system stretching from France down the
west coast of Africa, providing robust landing points across numerous
African countries.
-- SAFE (South Africa Far East) and SAT-3/WASC: Though older, these systems
are crucial for redundancy and complement the network's reliability.
These strategic additions come as Africa continues to witness a surge in internet traffic and user growth. Since 2010, the continent's internet penetration has escalated from around 10% to approximately 43% as of January 2024. The number of internet users rose to 570 million by 2022, with projections set to exceed 1.1 billion by 2029. A compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 41% in international bandwidth from 2020 to 2024 underscores Africa's rapid digital evolution.
The upgrades align with NetActuate's commitment to providing seamless, low-latency delivery of services not only across Africa but also into Europe, Asia, and the Americas. The data centers in Johannesburg, Accra, and Nairobi are pivotal for NetActuate's global edge network, connecting to multiple carriers and major cloud platforms to ensure fast, secure, and dependable access worldwide.
About NetActuate
NetActuate is a leading provider of highly available, low latency custom network and infrastructure services that reach every major global market. From the datacenter to the last mile, we help providers take their products and services to the global edge faster. Our customers can rapidly scale without fear of high costs or devastating performance issues. We built one of the world's largest global networks by number of peers, and it serves as the foundation for our performance BGP anycast platform that powers over 25 billion transactions a day.
For more information about NetActuate's services in Africa or to learn how your organization can leverage these enhancements, please visit http://www.netactuate.com. To discover how anycast can boost reliability, reduce latency, and simplify architecture all at the network level, visit NetActuate's anycast resource site at https://anycast.com.
Media Contact
Mark Mahle, NetActuate, +1.800.419.2656, marketing@netactuate.com, netactuate.com
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