Undersea cable company Seacom has added the Deutscher Commercial Internet Exchange (DE-CIX) in Frankfurt, Germany to the list of European Internet exchange points at which it peers.
The company says the new peering agreement will mean "better performance and less latency" for clients when connecting to Web services in central Europe.
DE-CIX Frankfurt is the leading Internet exchange point in the heart of Europe. The carrier-neutral exchange has the world's largest Ethernet-based platform, DE-CIX Apollon, delivering high-availability peering with full 100Gbps Ethernet capabilities.
Mark Tinka, Seacom head of engineering, says the operator's 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.
"Since we have a a full-service IP/MPLS point of presence in Frankfurt and control the experience from end to end, SEACOM can offer its customers high levels of service availability and quality at an affordable cost."
Tinka says Seacom has seen 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."
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