Hetzner now peers directly at NAP Africa in Isando, via a 10Gbps circuit – joining the largest active peering community in Africa, including many content distribution networks (CDN’s).
This is good news for our customers as, combined with JINX peering a year ago, over 65% of our local traffic is now routed over these Internet eXchange points (IXP) rather than via costly transit links. This helps to keep our traffic pricing down.
We actively support open peering to:
- reduce the cost of internet connectivity to the public
- reduce latency with simplified routing, avoiding traffic bottlenecks
- increase network resilience by offering multiple connection options
We peer with most of the large network operators, including Openserv, Neotel, Telkom Internet, MTN Business, Vodacom, Optinet, VOX , Google , Microsoft , Hurricane Electric , Cloudflare , Borwood and iBurst amongst others.
By having a presence at both NAP Africa and JINX, we have significantly increased our reach into the local internet landscape through our open peering policy. As South Africa’s largest specialist hosting company, hosting in excess of 330 000 websites and a multitude of other services through our Self-Managed Server platform, our customers’ content is now easily available to all network operators at the various internet exchange points in South Africa.
