{"id":15949,"date":"2017-11-12T10:34:13","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T08:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/?p=15949"},"modified":"2017-11-12T10:34:13","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T08:34:13","slug":"workonline-communications-opens-two-new-european-pop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/2017\/11\/12\/workonline-communications-opens-two-new-european-pop\/","title":{"rendered":"Workonline Communications opens two new European PoP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Workonline Communications has added points of presence in Interxion\u2019s Amsterdam and Frankfurt data centre campuses.<\/p>\n<p>With PoPs located at these key locations, Workonline Communications interconnects with other global networks and Europe\u2019s largest Internet exchanges, cost-effectively enhancing Workonline\u2019s ability to deliver content and traffic to and from Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmsterdam and Frankfurt are two of Interxion\u2019s most connected and carrier-dense campuses in Europe,\u201d said Mike Hollands, Director of Market Development and Strategy at Interxion. \u201cBy expanding its presence to these locations, Workonline Communications strengthens its European edge to deliver highly performant, reliable and secure services to meet the demands of the African market.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With IP traffic in Africa set to grow six-fold, and sub-Saharan Africa expected to have 500 million mobile users all by 2020, the market is experiencing unprecedented demands for content distribution between Europe and Africa. By deploying PoP at Interxion\u2019s campuses, Workonline Communications brings the African market closer to content networks with a European presence, for improved end user experience. At the same time, Interxion customers can now access secure and reliable connectivity options provided by Workonline Communications for new and existing opportunities in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt Workonline, we are committed to connecting Africa to the world and the world to Africa,\u201d said Edward Lawrence, Director of Business Development at Workonline Communications. \u201cWith its strategically located, secure, reliable and highly connected facilities, we are certain that Interxion is the right partner to help us to do just that. We look forward to continuing to expand our relationship with Interxion in the near future.\u201d    \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Workonline Communications has added points of presence in Interxion\u2019s Amsterdam and Frankfurt data centre campuses. With PoPs located at these key locations, Workonline Communications interconnects with other global networks and Europe\u2019s largest Internet exchanges, cost-effectively enhancing Workonline\u2019s ability to deliver content and traffic to and from Africa. \u201cAmsterdam and Frankfurt are two of Interxion\u2019s most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":15951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,399,19,262],"tags":[385,1079,125,1080,1081,1082,1083,1062,419,1084],"class_list":["post-15949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-data-centres","category-more-news","category-regional-news","category-used","tag-africa","tag-colocation-data-centre","tag-data-centre","tag-europe","tag-interxion","tag-ip-traffic","tag-points-of-presence","tag-pop","tag-sub-saharan-africa","tag-workonline-communications"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}