Africa’s internet still VERY far behind

You don’t hear much about the state of the internet in Africa, so we here at Pingdom decided to find out how Africa’s internet is doing. We looked at data traffic and internet penetration (how many in the population have internet access), and came up with some very interesting numbers. Bandwidth (traffic) Internet exchange points (IXPs) are locations where internet service providers (ISPs) interconnect so that they can send traffic directly to each other instead of having this traffic routed via other providers (and potentially very long distances), cutting traffic costs and increasing performance in the process. The IXP throughput can give us a good idea of how much internet traffic is being handled in Africa. IXP traffic in Africa Country Name City Peering ISPs Started Traffic Tanzania AIXP Arusha 14 2007 200 Kbps Angola ANG-IXP 5 2006 Unknown Botswana BINX Gabarone 8 2005 Unknown ...