Many institutions, governments and enterprises are taking advantage of as it offers:
- Improved Network Performance: Network peering helps reduce latency and improves overall network performance by providing direct traffic exchange between networks.
- Increased redundancy: Peering allows for more efficient traffic distribution and redundancy since traffic can be routed through multiple networks in the event of a link failure.
- Cost savings: Network peering can help reduce costs associated with paying for transit services from ISPs.
- Enhanced scalability: Peering allows for more efficient scaling of networks since ISP links can be shared across multiple networks.
- Improved security: By peering with trusted networks, organizations can gain access to better security solutions, such as shared DDoS protection.
Peering and Internet Exchange Points (IXPs)
IXPs play a vital role in giving businesses the ability to share their networks and resources. By having a presence inside of an IXP location, companies can shorten their path to the transit coming from other participating networks, thereby reducing latency, improving round-trip time, and potentially reducing costs. Connections to these nodes can be through public or private networks - depending on the requirements of the entity or business making use of such a service. Where large amounts of data is being shared, colocation options exist within these ISPs or the growing number of Data Centre connections now available in many key locations on the continent.
