Re: Colo in Africa

[Hendrik Meyburgh <hendrikdm () gmail com>]

I suggest you look at the Teraco facilities, specifically the JB1 (Isando)
site. It is extremely well connected and carrier-neutral so you can choose
who you want to use.

Depending on your requirement you might need to work through a reseller. I
work for an SP in South Africa, so let me know offline if you need any help.

On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 4:34 PM Ken Gilmour <ken.gilmour () gmail com> wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> I work for a Security Analytics org and we're looking to build a small POP
> in Africa. I am pretty clueless about the region so I was wondering if you
> could help guide me in the right direction for research?
>
> The challenges:
>
>    1. Network needs to be able to receive millions of small PPS (as
>    opposed to serving smaller numbers of larger files).
>    2. Can't be cloud (need bare metal servers / colo). We use the full
>    capacity of each server, all the time.
>    3. Must have good connectivity to most of the rest of Africa
>    4. We can initially only have one POP
>
> This is not like a normal website that we can just host on "any old
> provider", the requirements are very different.
>
> Is there a good location where we could either rent bare metal servers
> (something like Internap - preferred) or colocate servers within Africa
> that can serve most of the region?
>
> "Good" is defined as an area with stable connectivity and power, no legal
> restrictions on things like encryption, and good latency (sub 100ms) to the
> rest of Africa.
>
> Our two closest POPs are in Singapore and The Netherlands, so I'd like
> something closer to the middle that can serve the rest of Africa. Middle
> East will be deployed after Africa.
>
> I hope this is the right place to ask.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Ken