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Others / May 24, 2023

Expanding Nodes Across the Continent for Enhanced Application, Cloud Service, and User Connectivity

Catchpoint, the Internet Resilience Company™, and AFR-IX Telecom, one of Africa’s largest Internet and data service providers. Have embarked on a journey to improve Internet connectivity quality and reliability across the continent. As the Internet becomes increasingly essential for organizations, they need enhanced visibility into every aspect of the Internet stack.

By using Catchpoint’s market-leading Internet Performance Monitoring Platform (IPM), organizations will gain the operational visibility required to ensure resilience—from applications to cloud services to Internet protocols. The project’s goal is to improve Internet resilience by increasing the number of vantage points across geographies and within infrastructure. This will enable organizations to monitor their services and applications, ensuring high-performing and reliable Internet connectivity.

In today’s world, the Internet is your new local network,” said Mehdi Daoudi, CEO of Catchpoint. “Our deep, global observability coverage plus advanced analytics help the world’s leading organizations identify and resolve issues before they impact their customers, their workforce, or their applications,Daoudi

This pilot project will operate two backbone nodes in Accra (Ghana) and two in Lagos (Nigeria), allowing Catchpoint’s customers to have visibility over the performance and resilience of their products or services within these regions. The four new nodes supplement Catchpoint’s existing observability network footprint of 22 nodes distributed across Africa, spanning Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, and South Africa. 

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Using AFR-IX cloud infrastructure and connectivity to build backbone nodes in Accra and Lagos has allowed us to deploy rapidly and cost-effectively within budget,” explained Gael Hernandez, Director of ISP Strategy at Catchpoint. “Our customers are driving the demand for additional vantage points in the continent, so they can measure performance and increase the resilience of their services across Africa,added Gael
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AFR-IX Telecom

AFR-IX Telecom operates one of the largest Pan-African networks providing coverage in more than 60 countries. The network, which expands across more than 60 PoPs, provides reliable & resilient connectivity in all regions of Africa by connecting countries via subsea and terrestrial cables. AFR-IX telecom also owns a Metro Ethernet network with MPLS for African IT infrastructures, which bridges fibre networks with MPLS capabilities. 

“We jumped at the opportunity of working with Catchpoint in improving the state of Internet Resilience in Africa as we know that connectivity and services in the continent are growing faster than anywhere else in the world,” stated Jesus Serrano, Senior Director at AFR-IX Telecom. “Enterprises and firms are expanding in the continent and require robust connectivity services. Internet performance monitoring services  provide companies with valuable information to better secure their connectivity expansion needs,” he concluded

We jumped at the opportunity of working with Catchpoint in improving the state of Internet Resilience in Africa as we know that connectivity and services in the continent are growing faster than anywhere else in the world. Enterprises and firms are expanding in the continent and require robust connectivity services. Internet performance monitoring services provide companies with valuable information to better secure their connectivity expansion needs.Jesús Serrano, Senior Director at AFR-IX Telecom.

If project outcomes are successful, Catchpoint will expand the number of synthetic nodes deployed in AFR-IX Telecom.

One of our primary assets, as expressed by our customers, is the very large number of vantage points from where they can observe their services. We currently have well over 2500 vantage points in 88 countries covering 347 ISPs in 278 cities. This latest expansion.Mehdi Daoudi

About Catchpoint 

Catchpoint is the Internet Resilience Company™.Leading global brands rely on Catchpoint for deep observability across thousands of global vantage points. This increases their Internet Resilience by catching issues before they impact customers, workforce, networks, website performance, applications, and APIs.

The Catchpoint platform combines synthetics, RUM, performance optimization, high-fidelity data, and flexible visualizations. Additionally, it uses advanced analytics to provide unparalleled observability into the Internet stack.

Learn more at http://www.catchpoint.com 

 

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