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SNAP: Enabling Business Growth at the Edge

To enable the growth of digital ecosystems, it is crucial to establish connections among carefully selected parties that enable participants to freely exchange information, or "data." The ability to easily exchange information is vital for the success of businesses’ that are undergoing any digital transformation. This is where Intelys’ Secure Network Aggregation Point (SNAP) comes in.

SNAP is a Multi-tenanted Secure Network Edge that operates on an ‘As a Service’ model simplifying Secure access to Carrier Neutral Data Centres, eliminating the need for a physical presence at the Cloud Edge.
How it works

Intelys’ SNAP platform currently facilitates resilient low-latency, high-speed connectivity to 20+ key edge data centre locations in Gauteng delivering access to cloud, connectivity and compute services. Our platform allows clients hosted in these Edge facilities to seamlessly link to the eco-systems present in Teraco and Equinix, the primary carrier neutral data centres and network aggregation points in South Africa. SNAP facilitates easy network access to NAP, Africa Cloud Exchange (ACX), and the Equinix Partner Ecosystem, as well as enables direct third-party access for clients through dedicated cross-connects. Most importantly, SNAP is backed and supported by our skilled team of engineers, offering support 24 hours a day.

So, if you are seeking to deploy new edge applications, securely build hybrid-cloud infrastructure, or improve connectivity performance, the choice is simple.

What is Teraco’s ACX?

Teraco’s Africa Cloud Exchange (ACX) improves enterprise hybrid and multi-cloud performance through direct interconnection, enabling enterprises to do more in the cloud by providing secure, direct, flexible network connections to a wide range of local and global cloud service providers. Using an interconnected network architecture approach ACX allows you to improve cloud application performance, reduce latency, scale on-demand, lower network costs, and increase visibly to deliver a better cloud experience to your end-users.

What does ACX provide access to?

ACX offers you access to:

  • 5 x in-country edge nodes (AWS, Azure, Google, VMWARE and Oracle)
  • ACX community +-300 members
What is Equinix fabric?

The beauty of ecosystem formation within Equinix is that these digital connections can be made physically or virtually. This is important because low-latency performance is key to the user experience in a time where “instantly” has become the expectation.

Companies that want to access a partner or provider in a different Equinix location – even one around the globe — connect via software-defined interconnection using Equinix Fabric. Equinix Fabric affords customers the ability to spin-up interconnections on-demand, via a self-service portal with immediate provisioning and minimal term commitment of just one calendar day.

The Equinix Partner Ecosystem offers:

  • Network Fabric - Global on-demand network connecting 273 data centres and 163 edge nodes 
  • Access to JINX 
  • Metal as a Service 
  • Network Edge
By connecting to SNAP, clients gain access to the Intelys Managed Network Services Stack, which includes Managed hosting (per U), Managed switching (per port), Managed firewalls (VDoMs), and high-speed resilient Internet services.

Clients can also take advantage of the Intelys partner interconnect model, which allows direct access to multiple IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and SIP providers with a presence in any of our Onnet Data Centres.
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