Teraco continues growth path
Despite a challenging economic environment, Teraco, the vendor-neutral data centre, has pointed to strong growth during 2013.
Group CEO Lex van Wyk says that Teraco is the fastest growing colocation provider on the continent and the company’s strong operational performance in 2013 has resulted in Teraco increasing its capacity requirements.
Having grown by 6,000-sqm and 8mVA since 2009, when Teraco launched its first data centre in Cape Town, the company now has availability in excess of 6,500-sqm of data center space and 10mVA of power.
An additional 5,000-sqm and 10mVA are already in the planning phase for development in the near future, the group said.
“Teraco currently supports over 3,500 interconnects, a number that is growing by 7-8% per month,” said Van Wyk.
He said that Teraco creates a neutral marketplace by encouraging clients to openly interconnect and onward sell services within the data centre.
Lex van wyk
By introducing a long overdue open interconnect point for media and broadcasters, Van Wyk says Teraco aims to see online content become more freely available.
“This along with the benefits of peering should bring affordability and a possible answer to getting content to long underserved communities.”
As Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT) becomes a reality, broadcasters and media aggregators require a neutral facility and a cost effective distribution point to send and receive content.
“Teraco is key to this strategy,” said Van Wyk. “We have seen a number of large operators benefit from interconnecting at NAPAfrica boosting their ability to widely distribute content.”
Teraco said its outlook for 2014 is positive. Cape Town will see the opening of an additional 1,000sqm and 2mVA of power by June 2014 while at the same time; Johannesburg will offer a further 800sqm and 2mVA of power.
“NAPAfrica, Teraco’s peering and Internet Exchange Point (IXP), has already exceeded 5Gbps of traffic and more than 100 members. With current trends, we should be near the 10Gbps mark by the start of 2015,” Van Wyk said.
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