NAPAfrica, the web change level housed in Teraco’s information centres in Johannesburg, Cape City and Durban, has reached a brand new milestone: 5Tbit/s in visitors throughout its platform.
Web change factors enhance the effectivity and reliability of worldwide web providers by decreasing latency for providers which are cached regionally, like streaming content material, and function different routing pathways when disruptions in undersea cable infrastructure happen.
“With over 655 networks peering at its change factors, NAPAfrica continues to play a essential function in preserving African web visitors native, decreasing prices and enhancing community efficiency,” the corporate stated in an announcement on Tuesday.
Exponential
Visitors flowing by means of NAPAfrica has grown exponentially because it first peaked at 100Gbit/s in 2016. It took solely two years for a fivefold improve in visitors to happen, with 2018 ranges breaching the 500Gbit/s mark.
Three years later, in 2021, visitors had quadrupled to 2Tbit/s – doubling once more within the subsequent two years to achieve 4Tbit/s in 2023. In keeping with the corporate, visitors breached the 5Tbit/s mark for the primary time final month.
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To place that quantity in perspective, it’s the equal of transferring greater than 130 000 MP3 songs over the community each second. – © 2025 NewsCentral Media
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