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Catchpoint and AFR-IX to Improve the Reliability of the Internet in Africa

May 25, 2023
4 min read
Author: Aayushya Ranjan

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 the quality and reliability of Internet connectivity in the continent. As the Internet has become increasingly essential for organizations to conduct their operations, they need a new level of visibility into every aspect of the Internet Stack. 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. 

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.

Mehdi Daoudi, CEO, Catchpoint

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. 

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. 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. 

Gael Hernandez, Director of ISP Strategy, Catchpoint

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. 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.

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.

Jesus Serrano, Senior Director, 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, and we are continuously adding more.

Mehdi Daoudi, CEO, Catchpoint
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