Teraco has announced Lex Van Wyk will step down as chief executive officer, effective 1 January 2020.

"By colocating in a Teraco data centre, you're surrounded by opportunities to form new interconnections with business partners, service providers and networks,” says Michele McCann, Head of Interconnection and Peering, Teraco.

The Teraco campus expansion follows on from the recently launched Riverfields hyper-scale data centre facility in Bredell.

Currently, AWS Direct Connect, Microsoft Express Route and Google's Cloud Platform are all available via the cloud exchange.

The Boston-based investment firm has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire a majority stake in the company.

China Telecom Global has selected Teraco Data Environments as the location for its inter-connection hub.

Teraco has now built four fully operational data centres and launched Africa's first hyper-scale facility, the company says.

This will enable customers to directly access AWS services in AWS infrastructure Regions around the world.

The ICT networking?event, hosted by Teraco and FibreCo Telecommunications, is taking place in the Western Cape this week.

Teraco will offer access to the Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute sites in Africa when Azure becomes generally available in 2018.

The decision to sponsor root operators is another way Teraco can support the growth of the African Internet market, says Andrew Owens, technical manager for Interconnection & Peering at Teraco.

Evidence of this investment was visible today as Teraco launched its Riverfields Hyperscale Centre east of Johannesburg.