Open Access Data Centres (OADC) has announced that its innovative Open Access Fabric (OAfabric) platform is now fully operational in Nigeria (OADC Lagos) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (OADC Texaf – Kinshasa).
This new platform aims to help businesses surmount longstanding structural barriers that have impeded digital growth across the region.
For years, organisations in Africa have faced significant challenges such as limited access to both local and international content, high internet transit costs, latency issues, and inconsistent network performance. Additional obstacles included insufficient local infrastructure like colocation facilities, power, and cooling, alongside costly compute environments, bandwidth, cloud services, and complex regulatory and data sovereignty concerns. OAfabric’s next-generation, open-access, and collaborative digital platform has been specifically designed to address these issues by transforming how businesses, cloud providers, and content distributors interconnect. Instead of merely expanding infrastructure, it simplifies and accelerates digital exchanges, removing the fragmentation, delays, and complexity that have long hindered regional growth.
For instance, organisations struggling to deliver consistent user experiences due to unreliable or expensive international routes can now benefit from direct, low-latency peering with both local and global cloud and content providers, reducing transit costs and enhancing performance. Similarly, those facing regulatory hurdles or data sovereignty restrictions can access compliant interconnection pathways that keep data local, secure, and under organisational control. Furthermore, the platform facilitates the creation of open, carrier-neutral environments where networks, content providers, cloud platforms, and enterprises can connect swiftly and cost-effectively, enabling faster market expansion and service deployment.
“We designed OAfabric around the real challenges African businesses face. It is about solving problems — reducing the cost of compute, improving network performance, unlocking access to cloud and content, and creating an environment where companies can scale confidently while shortening time to market,” said Dr Ayotunde Coker, CEO of OADC.
OAfabric empowers organisations to overcome persistent digital limitations, replacing complexity with simplicity, costs with value, and fragmentation with integration. Whether a telecommunications provider seeking more resilient regional interconnection, an enterprise grappling with latency issues, or a cloud platform aiming for trusted access into African markets, OAfabric makes previously difficult, expensive, or inaccessible digital connectivity a reality.
“OAfabric is not just infrastructure; it represents a new way of doing business. By removing barriers and enabling seamless, high-performance peering between local and global ecosystems, including Internet Exchange Points, content providers, cloud platforms, and enterprises, it provides the frictionless interconnection needed to access digital services more efficiently,” said Coker.
Looking ahead, OADC plans to expand OAfabric’s reach further across Africa, enhancing access to cloud ecosystems and international content, thereby supporting the continent’s ongoing digital growth and development.
