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Open Access Data Centres (OADC), Africa’s fastest-growing data centre company, announces a strategic partnership with INX-ZA, South Africa's only community-led neutral Internet exchange points. This collaboration marks a significant milestone in enhancing interconnection capabilities for clients within OADC’s facilities, and provides additional options for interconnecting to INX-ZA-operated Internet Exchange Points.
The collaboration between INX-ZA and OADC, marking OADC as the newest data centre partner for INX-ZA, reflects a synergistic partnership driven by a mutual goal to boost Internet interconnectivity. Expanding into OADC’s leading-edge distributed scale of core facilities in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban, ensures that the hundreds of peers connected via INX-ZA's Internet exchange points will enjoy seamless connectivity with existing and future OADC clients. Additionally, this partnership offers clients housed within OADC's facilities new and resilient means to tap into the continent’s oldest peering ecosystem. In response to the partnership with INX-ZA, the Group Chief Development Officer of WIOCC Group, Darren Bedford notes that the activation will aid OADC’s pursuit to offer its clients secured inter-connectivity, seamless peering, improved performance and a stronger local distributed internet ecosystem. OADC is rapidly creating a leading, vibrant interconnect and peering ecosystem to leverage its proximity and interconnection with all cable landing stations and major data centres in the country. Including a world-class community-led Internet exchange point at major facilities is the next natural step in an exciting vision to promote an open-access digital, inclusive South African Internet economy.
The collaboration between OADC and INX-ZA fosters a stronger and more efficient Internet ecosystem in South Africa, benefiting local and international carriers, cloud operators, content distribution networks, ISPs and enterprises alike. By enabling peering, the partnership optimises traffic routing and reduces latency, resulting in faster and more consistent online experiences for end-users and improved performance for businesses, while enhancing overall network efficiency. Crucially, this partnership expands the operating environment for cost-efficient, low-complexity peering for network operators.
Bedford adds: “The collaboration between OADC and INX-ZA significantly strengthens South Africa’s Internet ecosystem. By expanding the locations where networks can interconnect, we are making it easier for carriers, cloud providers, CDNs, ISPs and enterprises to exchange traffic locally - and we are doing all of this, without adding cost or operational complexity.
“This partnership enables more efficient traffic routing, resulting in lower latency, more predictable performance and an improved experience for end-users and businesses. Just as importantly, it widens the environment in which peering can take place, supporting the continued growth and resilience of the local internet community.
“OADC’s decision to work with INX-ZA underscores our commitment to delivering robust connectivity options and fostering a thriving interconnection and peering ecosystem. It also strengthens our position as a leading data-centre provider by enhancing data availability for our clients and extending network reach across the country and region. Through this initiative, OADC is proud to offer free peering at our facilities to help accelerate the growth of South Africa’s internet ecosystem.”
“We’re thrilled to be partnering with OADC to extend the reach of INX-ZA’s services across South Africa”, said Nishal Goburdhan, Exchange Point Manager at INX-ZA. “This collaboration reflects our shared commitment to improving connectivity for network operators and strengthening the region’s Internet infrastructure. By broadening where networks can interconnect, we continue to support a more resilient, efficient and community-driven internet ecosystem.”
OADC offers a unique core-to-edge proposition in South Africa, supported by nine Tier-III core data centres and over 30 edge facilities. These sites provide open access to more than 20,000km of terrestrial fibre, 16Tbps national and metro network capacity and eight subsea cable systems that connect South Africa to Europe and Asia via multiple routes. By extending data storage, processing and content delivery to the network edge, OADC enables improved application performance and ensures that critical data can be processed locally. Its edge facilities, strategically located within major business and connectivity hubs, are fully carrier-neutral and open-access. With some of the most competitive power rates in the industry, OADC has become one of the fastest-growing data centre companies in the region.
“The combination of our core data centres in four key cities and our edge locations creates opportunities for greater efficiency, reduced latency and optimised backhaul costs,” says Bedford. “We offer managed services, including remote hands, along with linear or protected connectivity options, either across the WIOCC network or through a wide range of other network providers. Our tailored solutions are client-centric, built on long-term relationships and a shared vision for growth and prosperity.”
About INX-ZA - https://www.inx.net.za/
INX-ZA operates the only completely neutral, and community-run Internet exchange points in South Africa, namely the Johannesburg Internet Exchange (JINX), Cape Town Internet Exchange (CINX), Durban Internet Exchange (DINX) and the Nelson Mandela Bay Internet Exchange (NMBINX). The JINX is Africa's oldest IXP; operating since 1996, with 100% uptime!
The Internet exchanges (INXs) provide the only data-centre agnostic facility for operators to connect and exchange traffic (peer) in South Africa. Peering encourages the routing of domestic Internet traffic by providing an optimal path for traffic to reach other networks within the same city, country or continent.
Connecting to any of the INXs is easy and open to any network that has its own IP address space and an autonomous system number.
INX-ZA is an autonomous division of the Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA) of South Africa.
