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DELL BLACKLISTS ALL RECENTLY STOLEN EQUIPMENT

ell says it is their duty to inform and educate their
Dcustomers, partners and the wider community on the
loss of Dell products and systems during a recent spate
of robberies in South Africa. All stolen items have been
blacklisted and will not be eligible to receive any support
or services from Dell.
In a statement the company said: “We remain
committed to tackling the issue of crime in South
Africa and we’re working closely with law enforcement
authorities to identify and bring to book all perpetrators
and those who are found to be in possession of these
stolen products. Furthermore, we aim to protect our
customers from purchasing fraudulent or stolen products
that have been obtained illegally. We would like to remind
customers to be vigilant when purchasing Dell products
and ensure these are being bought at authoriDzed Dell
Technologies distribution and retail outlets.”

For more information on how to purchase genuine
Dell products, please visit:
https://www.delltechnologies.com/en-za/index.htm

NAPAfrica internet exchange leads the way for internet growth

and accessibility in Africa

n 2022, NAPAfrica will celebrate a decade infrastructure resides within vendor- have seen many new enterprises join the
Iof playing a pivotal role in transforming neutral co-location data centres located NAPAfrica peering community to improve
Africa’s internet access and inter- in Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg. resilience, lower costs and reduce the latency
connectedness. Established in 2012, with “What started as an idea to attract global of accessing content and applications such as
the aim of stimulating the development of content to African shores whilst also Microsoft Office 365, AWS Cloudfront, Akamai
an internet exchange (IXP) within a truly improving latency, has emerged as a leading and Cloudflare. NAPAfrica has become a
vendor-neutral environment, NAPAfrica interconnection hub that is shaping the cornerstone for organisations in supporting
has grown into the continent’s biggest IXP growth and access of the internet across the their internet and communication needs with
and the seventh largest globally, by number African continent.” It took eight years for work-from-home strategies.
of member connections. Most recently, traffic throughput on the internet exchange The number of IXPs in Africa has also grown
NAPAfrica announced that it had reached a to reach 1Tbps, and only a little over fifteen exponentially since the launch of NAPAfrica,
peering throughput milestone of more than months to double that. increasing from 19 in 2012 to 46 in 2020:
2Tbps, with over 500 organisations now NAPAfrica has made it possible for “A 140% increase in the number of African
actively peering. peering members to access global content exchanges is good news for the continent and
“The growth of NAPAfrica is a great within African borders and keep local traffic its interconnectedness. We are proud of the
African success story,” says Jan Hnizdo, local – where previously, much of our traffic innovative role NAPAfrica has played in shaping
CEO, Teraco, where the internet exchange’s was routed via Europe. More recently, we Africa’s internet access and usage.”

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