I suggest you look at the Teraco facilities, specifically the JB1 (Isando) site. It is extremely well connected and carrier-neutral so you can choose who you want to use.
Depending on your requirement you might need to work through a reseller. I work for an SP in South Africa, so let me know offline if you need any help. On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 4:34 PM Ken Gilmour <ken.gilm...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I work for a Security Analytics org and we're looking to build a small POP > in Africa. I am pretty clueless about the region so I was wondering if you > could help guide me in the right direction for research? > > The challenges: > > 1. Network needs to be able to receive millions of small PPS (as > opposed to serving smaller numbers of larger files). > 2. Can't be cloud (need bare metal servers / colo). We use the full > capacity of each server, all the time. > 3. Must have good connectivity to most of the rest of Africa > 4. We can initially only have one POP > > This is not like a normal website that we can just host on "any old > provider", the requirements are very different. > > Is there a good location where we could either rent bare metal servers > (something like Internap - preferred) or colocate servers within Africa > that can serve most of the region? > > "Good" is defined as an area with stable connectivity and power, no legal > restrictions on things like encryption, and good latency (sub 100ms) to the > rest of Africa. > > Our two closest POPs are in Singapore and The Netherlands, so I'd like > something closer to the middle that can serve the rest of Africa. Middle > East will be deployed after Africa. > > I hope this is the right place to ask. > > Thanks! > > Ken >