With Google’s Equiano and Facebook’s 2Africa undersea cable projects set to arrive later this year, MyBroadband contacted local data centres to ask about its significance.
or substantially affect prices. Still, they will help bring content from platforms like YouTube and Instagram closer to end-users.
An added benefit of DCI is the redundancy it provides — if one data centre fails, the companies and services depending on it can function from backups at another data centre.DCI is made possible by distributed Internet exchange points — physical infrastructure that network operators, content delivery networks, and cloud service providers use to exchange web traffic.
However, Google might prefer not to buy extra capacity from existing providers as these tend to be long-term contracts. “Colocation demand will increase for data centre providers from companies wanting to be ‘closer’ to the network providers,” said Schönborn.
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