Catchpoint and AFR-IX Telecom yesterday announced their partnership that aims to improve the quality and reliability of Internet connectivity on the continent. By using Catchpoint’s market-leading Internet Performance Monitoring Platform (IPM), organizations will have the operational visibility required to ensure resilience – from applications to cloud services to Internet protocols.
The goal of the project is to improve Internet Resilience by increasing the number of vantage points across geographies and within infrastructure vantage points from which organizations can monitor their services and applications to ensure high-performing, reliable Internet connectivity.
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.
If project outcomes are successful, Catchpoint will expand the number of synthetic nodes deployed in AFR-IX Telecom.
Mehdi Daoudi, CEO of Catchpoint
In today’s world, the Internet is your new local network. 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… 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, and we are continuously adding more. This latest expansion within Africa helps represent a small yet vital step towards that goal.
Jesus Serrano, Senior Director at AFR-IX Telecom
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.
