Workonline Communications has launched its first Point of Presence (PoP) in Nigeria, further enhancing the group’s West African presence.
The new megaPoP provides 10 Gbps and 100 Gbps services at Rack Centre in Lagos, pitched as West Africa’s best-connected data centre. This adds to the growing list of African markets in which the company manages megaPoPs including Ghana, Kenya and South Africa.
Benjamin Deveaux, Head of Business Development, Workonline Group, said: “Although many content networks have now deployed in parts of Africa, there is still around 80% of Africa’s Internet capacity which goes back to Europe where the content is hosted. Workonline is on a mission to help Africa keep traffic on the continent to increase the quality for the user and develop the African Internet economy.”
In early 2019, Workonline Communications became the first African wholesale IP transit provider to deploy Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) Origin Validation (OV) to improve the security of Internet routing. Workonline is also an active member of the Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) operator community and was the first African network to implement all four of the MANRS routing manifesto actions.
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