Data centre operator Teraco provided a 7.5 million grant in support of the South African Broadband Education Networks (SABEN). In the next five years, this grant proposes to support SABEN ” in efforts to end bandwidth poverty among South African schools and public TVET colleges.”
Teraco CEO Jan Hnizdo says that the grant will assist in aiding these educational institutions to access content directly, expand their collective digital strategy, and lay essential foundations for future digital remote learning.
The grant is provided to the South African Broadband Education Networks (SABEN) via the Teraco Connect Foundation.
Taraco included in their announcement that, SABEN will be provided with a physical presence in Teraco data centres in Durban, Cape Town and Johannesburg and Colleges will have direct network access to Platform Teraco, providing institutions with secure and direct interconnection.
“Platform Teraco allows configuration of scalable interconnections to all the major cloud ramps, 250 network providers (including carriers, terrestrial fibre, satellite connectivity and submarine cables), 50 global content providers, 130 IT service providers, 130 enterprises and financial services providers, and access to several Internet eXchange Points (IXPs) at NAPAfrica and INX.”
“Teraco provides carrier and cloud-neutral colocation data centres. It has over 14,500 cross-connections.”
