On 16/Jul/19 17:28, Christopher Morrow wrote:
Isn't the OP really asking here (not to have their selection of platform wrangled..): "Where should I target my search: ZA only? is there anywhere else worth dropping my request?"
The easiest regions will be East (Kenya) and South (South Africa).
and: "Are there likely providers of solid colo aside from seacom/tinka-net or workonline/ben-net ?"
SEACOM and Workonline just do network. For co-lo, we have solid operators in East and South: * Teraco - https://www.teraco.co.za/ - who will give you excellent co-lo in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban. * iColo - https://www.icolo.io/ - who will give you excellent co-lo in Mombasa. Nairobi is due to open by September this year. * Raxio - https://www.raxio.co.ug/ - who will give you excellent co-lo in Kampala. Door open in December this year. Teraco run NAPAfrica, which is Africa's largest exchange point by traffic switched - https://www.napafrica.net/. They also have instances of the INX-ZA exchange points, which are JINX (Johannesburg), DINX (Durban) and CINX (Cape Town). iColo will be deploying an instance of KIXP (Kenya IXP) - https://www.tespok.co.ke/?page_id=11648 - and Asteroid - https://www.asteroidhq.com/. Raxio will also host an instance of the UIXP - https://www.uixp.co.ug/. From a network standpoint, you have a few options: * SEACOM - AS37100 * Workonline - AS37271 * Liquid - AS30844 * WIOCC - AS37662 These are the main network operators that run a good deal of network between Europe, Eastern Africa, Southern Africa and parts of Asia-Pac. Hope this helps. Mark.