The Johannesburg Web Trade (Jinx) now has a peering level at NTT Knowledge’s new information centre north of the town.
By way of an settlement with change operator INX-ZA, NTT Knowledge – beforehand Dimension Knowledge – has taken the peering level reside at its JOH1 information centre in Samrand, close to Midrand. The power has 6 200sq m of rack area and boasts 12MW of IT vital load.
Jinx is Africa’s oldest web change level (IXP) in South Africa. It has been working since 1996 with 100% uptime all through that 28-year interval.
Like its sister IXPs in Cape City (Cinx), Durban (Dinx) and Nelson Mandela Bay (NMBinx), the exchanges allow over 350 friends to change visitors instantly with one another, optimising the stream of knowledge and decreasing prices for community operators by avoiding further routing and prices via upstream transit networks.
‘Vital’
“The go-live of Jinx inside JOH1 can be vital in that it’s the most recent entry in a really lengthy and profitable historical past between INX-ZA and NTT Knowledge, previously Web Options and Dimension Knowledge, which led to the institution of INX factors of presence throughout a number of information centres and areas to help web development within the nation,” mentioned Robert Marston, director of infrastructure options (information centres) at NTT Knowledge.
The opposite main participant within the INX market in South Africa’s is NAPAfrica, which is owned by the nation’s largest information centre operator, Teraco, and is housed on the firm’s amenities. – © 2024 NewsCentral Media
