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NAPAfrica reaches 2 Tbps throughput

Thursday 29 July 2021 | 11:09 CET | News
Internet exchange point NAPAfrica has reached a peering throughput milestone of more than 2 Tbps, with over 500 organisations now actively peering. It was launched in 2012 to stimulate the development of an internet exchange point (IXP) within a vendor-neutral environment and has become Africa's biggest IXP and the seventh-largest globally by number of member connections.

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Companies: Teraco
Countries: Africa
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