Open Access Data Centres (OADC), Africa’s truly open-access and carrier-neutral data centre operator, announced that its Open Access Fabric (OAfabric) platform is now live and operational in both Nigeria (OADC Lagos) and the DRC (OADC Texaf – Kinshasa), providing businesses with the ability to overcome many of the structural barriers that have long held back digital transformation across the region.
For too long, organisations have faced real constraints, including:
- Limited access to international and local content
- High internet transit costs
- Latency and inconsistent network performance
- Gaps in local infrastructure such as colocation space, power and cooling
- Costly compute environments, bandwidth and cloud services
- Security, data sovereignty and regulatory complexity
OAfabric’s next-generation, open-access and collaborative digital platform is purpose-built to solve these challenges. Instead of just adding more infrastructure, it transforms how businesses, cloud platforms and content providers interconnect. It simplifies and accelerates digital exchange by removing the complexity, delays and fragmentation that have long hindered growth.
For example, if you struggle to deliver consistent user experiences due to unreliable or expensive international routes, OAfabric will enable direct, low-latency on-ramp peering with global and local cloud and content providers, helping to reduce transit costs and improve performance.
If regulatory challenges or data sovereignty concerns are restricting cloud adoption in your sector, OAfabric offers compliant interconnection pathways that keep your data local, secure and under your control.
If the lack of local digital ecosystems is restricting your ability to scale or launch services, OAfabric offers a solution. It creates open, carrier-neutral environments where networks, content providers, cloud platforms and enterprises can interconnect quickly and affordably, making market expansion faster and more efficient.
“We designed OAfabric around the real challenges African businesses face,” said Dr Ayotunde Coker, Chief Executive Officer of OADC. “It is about solving problems – reducing the cost to compute, improving performance, unlocking access to cloud and content, and creating an environment where companies can scale with confidence while accelerating time to market.”
OAfabric empowers businesses to overcome long-standing digital limitations, replacing complexity with simplicity, cost with value and fragmentation with integration.
Whether you are a telco seeking more resilient regional interconnection, an enterprise facing latency and performance challenges, or a cloud platform in need of trusted, scalable access into African markets, OAfabric makes what was once difficult, expensive or out of reach now possible.
“OAfabric is not just infrastructure; it represents a shift in what is possible for Africa’s digital economy,” added Dr Coker. “By removing barriers and enabling seamless, high-performance peering between key ecosystems, including local and global Internet Exchange Points (IXPs), content providers, cloud platforms and enterprises, it provides the frictionless interconnection needed to access digital services more efficiently.”
Looking ahead, OAfabric will deliver enhanced access to cloud ecosystems and international content. Expansion into new African markets is also planned to extend the platform’s reach and boost digital growth across the continent.
