ARC Telecoms champions open peering with NAPAfrica
[Johannesburg, 6 February 2012] -
ARC Telecoms has committed to open peering by establishing a connection at NAPAfrica, becoming the first business-focused telecoms company in SA to actively back this important initiative. Open peering at NAPAfrica allows Internet users – especially the price-sensitive small and medium business sector – to benefit from lower costs and greater network flexibility.NAPAfrica has interconnect nodes in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban, and is a recent addition to SA's Internet infrastructure. It provides an alternative to the paid-for Johannesburg Internet Exchange (JINX) that has been the only IP interconnect point in SA since commercial peering started in 1996.Open peering allows ISPs of any size to interconnect freely, reducing costs for their customers, increasing network redundancy and routing flexibility, and reducing the sometimes comically complicated zig-zag routing that voice and data traffic takes to get from point A to point B.
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