Subsea cable operator Seacom has announced it is now peering with the Deutscher Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) in Frankfurt, Germany, in a move that should mean African Internet users have faster access to servers hosted in the region.
“The new peering agreement will mean that Seacom clients will enjoy better performance and less latency when they connect to Web services in central Europe,” the company said in a statement.
DE-CIX Frankfurt is a major Internet exchange point in the heart of Europe. Seacom says the carrier-neutral exchange has the world’s largest and most advanced Ethernet-based platform, DE-CIX Apollon, delivering high-availability peering with 100Gbit/s Ethernet.
“Our peering arrangement at DE-CIX means that African carriers and service providers will be able to efficiently and securely exchange Internet traffic with many major providers in central and Western Europe,” said Seacom engineering head Mark Tinka in the statement.
“With the strong growth in Internet traffic between Africa and Europe, we want to help African Internet users reach the services they want to access with as few hops as possible,” said Tinka.
Seacom operates a high-capacity subsea cable system along Africa’s eastern and southern coastlines. — (c) 2015 NewsCentral Media
