Located within Teraco data centre facilities in Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg, NAPAfrica IXP’s founding goal is to help make Internet access more accessible for Africa.
NAPAfrica charges its members no membership fees, no port fees, and no cross-connect fees to access the infrastructure. NAPAfrica also does not compete with its member community. Using NAPAfrica allows a reliable exchange of traffic with increased routing control and improved performance. The NAPAfrica peering point allows multiple enterprises, network operators, CDN’s and cloud services providers to peer locally, keeping African traffic within Africa.

In today’s broadband market of exploding traffic volumes, enterprises, network operators, CDN’s and cloud services providers peer to exchange their Internet traffic. The advantages of Internet exchange points include:
Allowing high speed data transfer;
Reducing latency;
Providing fault tolerance;
Reliable exchange of traffic;
Increased routing control;
Improved performance
Peer at Africa’s largest Internet exchange from Teraco’s data centre facilities. NAPAfrica IXP offers direct access to over 300 unique networks (ASNs) servicing over 20 countries in the southern African region. Peering at NAPAfrica is 100% free – no cross connect, membership, or port fees.