JOHANNESBURG, April 14 – Africa Data Centers has partnered with fibre infrastructure provider Oni-Tel Fibre Networks to strengthen interconnection capacity across its Gauteng facilities, as South Africa’s main digital corridor becomes an increasingly important hub for cloud and data-driven services.
The agreement will see Oni-Tel Fibre Networks deliver high-speed, low-latency connectivity to Africa Data Centres campuses in Midrand and Samrand through its Infinity fibre interconnection platform, a system designed for direct data centre-to-data centre connectivity.
Oni-Tel has already developed a dedicated inter-data centre fibre backbone across Gauteng, linking major digital infrastructure nodes through purpose-built routes aimed at reducing latency and improving resilience between facilities. The region has emerged as South Africa’s primary data centre cluster, driven by enterprise demand, fibre density and proximity to financial and corporate users.
The companies said the partnership is intended to support rising demand for cloud computing, artificial intelligence workloads and data-intensive applications, which are placing greater pressure on interconnection networks rather than standalone infrastructure.
“As enterprises accelerate cloud adoption, AI deployment, and data-intensive workloads, they need dependable, scalable connectivity within trusted local data centres,” said Adil El Youssefi, chief executive of Africa Data Centres.
He said the collaboration would strengthen fibre infrastructure supporting enterprise growth while maintaining secure, carrier-grade environments for customers operating in South Africa’s digital economy.
Industry data shows Africa still accounts for less than one percent of global data centre capacity, with investment increasingly focused on interconnection, redundancy and proximity to enterprise demand rather than only physical expansion.
Oni-Tel Fibre Networks said its Infinity platform provides ultra-low latency connectivity and scalable bandwidth across key Gauteng data centre routes, enabling faster and more resilient interconnection between infrastructure hubs.
“Our partnership with Africa Data Centres enables us to deliver our premium fibre interconnection solution into some of the most strategically important data centre hubs in Gauteng,” said Ellisha Gobind, chief commercial officer at Oni-Tel.
Africa Data Centres operates one of the continent’s largest vendor-neutral and cloud-neutral data centre platforms, serving cloud providers, financial institutions, mobile network operators and enterprise clients. The company said the collaboration expands connectivity choice and strengthens high-availability architecture for customers.
