Located within Teraco data centre facilities in Cape Town, Durban, and Johannesburg, NAPAfrica’s founding goal is to help make internet access more accessible for Africa.

NAPAfrica does not charge membership fees, port fees or cross-connect fees to access the infrastructure. NAPAfrica also does not compete with its member community.

NAPAfrica provides a reliable exchange of traffic with increased routing control and improved performance. The NAPAfrica peering point allows multiple enterprises, network operators, CDNs, and cloud services providers to peer locally, keeping African traffic within the continent.

The explosion of data traffic volumes has resulted in enterprises, network operators, CDNs, and cloud services providers peering to exchange their internet traffic. The advantages of an Internet Exchange Point (IXP) include:

• High speed data transfer,
• Reduced latency,
• Increased fault tolerance,
• Reliable exchange of traffic,
• Increased routing control, and
• Improved performance.

Peer at Africa’s largest internet exchange from Teraco’s data centre facilities. NAPAfrica offers direct access to over 655 unique networks (ASNs) servicing over 50 countries. Peering at NAPAfrica is 100% free – no cross-connect, membership, or port fees.