Expanding Data Centres Offer New Platform to Lower Expenses and Elevate Cloud Usage in Africa

In a significant stride towards enhancing digital services for businesses across Africa, OAfabric, the fastest-growing open-access and carrier-neutral data center operator, has launched its next-generation digital platform in Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

OAfabric aims to address the long-standing challenges that have hindered digital growth in the region. These challenges include high internet transit costs, latency, inconsistent network performance, infrastructure gaps, costly compute environments, security concerns, data sovereignty issues, and regulatory complexity.

By simplifying and accelerating digital exchange, OAfabric removes the complexity, delays, and fragmentation that have long hindered growth. It creates open, carrier-neutral environments where networks, content providers, cloud platforms, and enterprises can interconnect quickly and affordably.

OAfabric's platform empowers businesses to overcome these digital limitations, unlocking access to cloud and content, and reducing the cost to compute. It also offers compliant interconnection pathways that keep data local, secure, and under the control of the user.

Moreover, OAfabric enables direct, low-latency on-ramp peering with global and local cloud and content providers. This peering reduces transit costs and improves performance, allowing businesses to scale with confidence while accelerating time to market.

In a bid to extend its reach and boost digital growth across the continent, OAfabric plans to expand into new African markets. The expansion aims to improve access to cloud ecosystems and international content, addressing the challenge of limited access to international and local content faced by many organizations.

OAfabric's purpose is to overcome structural barriers that have long held back digital transformation across the region. Its platform is designed to transform how businesses, cloud platforms, and content providers interconnect, enabling seamless, high-performance peering between key ecosystems, including local and global Internet Exchange Points (IXPs), content providers, cloud platforms, and enterprises.

In essence, OAfabric represents a shift in what is possible for Africa's digital economy. As it continues to expand, it will undoubtedly play a pivotal role in unlocking the continent's digital potential.

Expanding Data Centres Offer New Platform to Lower Expenses and Elevate Cloud Usage in Africa