Johannesburg, South Africa – 30 April 2024 – NAPAfrica, Africa’s leading Internet eXchange Point (IXP) and the sixth largest exchange globally, will offer clients a network time protocol (NTP) service using Adtran’s Oscilloquartz synchronisation technology to offer enterprise clients highly accurate, secure, and reliable time-as-a-service (TaaS), enabling organisations to meet stringent timing requirements.
“While empowering our clients with precise timing capabilities, Teraco is also using the solution to synchronise its own data centre interconnect network and systems. Now available at ntp.nap.africa, our new NTP service provides enterprise clients with a more efficient, scalable, and cost-effective route to network synchronisation and an alternative to investing in their own timing and synchronisation infrastructure,” says Andrew Owens, Lead for Interconnection & Peering at Teraco.
“Our timing platform is set to accelerate the growth of digital services across our regional footprint. From optimising IoT processes in the manufacturing sector to providing precise time information needed for low-latency operations, the benefits will be far-reaching.”
Teraco collaborated with Adtran and NEC XON for the deployment of Adtran’s OSA 5412 platform. This versatile grandmaster clock and NTP server with multi-band GNSS capabilities ensures the delivery of precision timing for network operators, utilities, financial institutions, government agencies, and more.
“Teraco’s offering is now available to a wide range of businesses, giving operators access to an incredibly accurate, robust timing and synchronisation service at the push of a button,” says Stuart Broome, GM of EMEA sales at Adtran.
NAPAfrica has solidified its position as the cornerstone for organisations, addressing their internet, communication, and cloud adoption needs. The surge in network demand and the substantial investments in critical telecoms infrastructure across Africa have contributed to NAPAfrica’s growth. This expansion has happened in tandem with the continent’s rising demand for cloud services from the likes of Akamai, Amazon Web Services, Cloudflare, Microsoft Azure, and Zscaler.
Enterprises are capitalising on peering advantages within the NAPAfrica ecosystem, connecting with cloud deployments, content providers, networks, and security providers to transition towards a more streamlined digital economy.
About NAPAfrica
Home to global carriers, cloud providers, content delivery networks (CDNs), ISPs, internet security, and gaming platforms, NAPAfrica is the continent’s largest aggregation point. In a world where the ease of interconnection, seamless peering arrangements, and platform reliability are essential, the NAPAfrica internet exchange delivers. NAPAfrica operates internet exchange points (IXPs) within Teraco’s Cape Town, Durban, and Johannesburg data centres that service the Southern Africa region. The IXP’s founding goal is to help make internet access more accessible for Africa. With more than 600 member ASNs from over 50 countries, NAPAfrica is the sixth largest IXP globally. Members are encouraged to participate in online discussions and meet at technical events throughout the year.
About Teraco
Teraco, a leading carrier-neutral colocation provider in Africa, is the first provider of highly resilient, vendor-neutral data environments in sub-Saharan Africa. With its world-class data centre infrastructure and network-dense ecosystems, Teraco forms a vital part of the African Internet’s backbone and is essential to the modern enterprise’s digital transformation strategy. Teraco is majority-owned by Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR) – offering customers a global data centre platform designed to enable digital businesses to scale within a highly connected data community across 300+ data centres in 50+ metros and 25+ countries on six continents – together with a continuing interest maintained by a consortium of private equity investors, including Berkshire Partners LLC and Permira. For more information, please visit teraco.co.za or follow us on LinkedIn and X.
About Digital Realty
Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents. To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and X.
