FEATURE
MULTIPLE
PROVIDERS OF
CROSS BORDER
CONNECTIVITY
NOT ONLY
IMPROVES THE
PRICE DUE TO
COMPETITION, BUT
ALSO IMPROVES
THE INTERNET’S
RESILIENCE AND
STABILITY.
MC Networks, a global
telecommunications carrier,
says Teraco’s Africa Cloud
Exchange will play an
important role in its recently launched
Multi Cloud Connect solution, enabling
its customers direct connection to AWS
Direct Connect and Microsoft Azure
Express Route cloud platforms across
multiple countries in Africa.
Marisa Trisolino, CEO, CMC Networks,
says that as the largest Pan-African
provider of connectivity, the collaboration
with Teraco is crucial to Multi Cloud
Connect’s success.
“By providing the essential building blocks,
the Africa Cloud Exchange greatly assists
us to provide our customers with the most
direct and best possible cloud experience
across the continent with stringent
service levels to suit,” said Trisolino.
drastically reduce latency through the
African Cloud Exchange.”
Having first engaged with Teraco over
10 years ago through its carrier neutral
data centre offering and NAPAfrica,
Africa’s largest Internet eXchange point,
Trisolino says CMC Networks has offered
hosting services and peering diversity to a
multitude of its customers.
“We believe the nature of the Africa Cloud
Exchange will encourage and lead to
increased cloud innovation,” she said.
“It is an outstanding platform and will
support us to achieve our strategic cloud
objective, which centres on solving
cross-border cloud connectivity problems
throughout Africa.”
Andrew Owens, Teraco’s Peering and
Interconnection Specialist, said that the
Africa Cloud Exchange improves hybrid
and multi-cloud performance through
direct interconnection.
“We empower our carrier communities to
do more in the cloud by providing secure,
direct, flexible network connections to
a wide range of local and global cloud
service providers,” he said.
“By using an interconnected network
architecture approach, Africa Cloud
Exchange will improve cloud application
performance, reduce latency, scale on
demand, lower network costs and
visibly deliver a better cloud experience to
end users.”
Multi Cloud Connect will enable much
sought-after connectivity for African
countries trying to connect to cloud
regions located in South Africa.
“This is a significant offering that enables
African ISPs and carriers to connect
directly without having to route to Europe
and back to Africa,” added Trisolino.
“Leveraging CMC’s extensive African
footprint Multi Cloud Connect will also
www.intelligentdatacentres.com
Sven Blom, Head of Sales, Teraco
Issue 06
45