On 29 November 2019, the First Internet Traffic Exchange Interconnect Forum (APF 2019), which took place at the Palmeiras Hotel in Luanda. The forum was attended by several Angolan and foreign experts from the sector.
During the forum, the Angolan expert Darwin Coast presented the Internet Panorama in Angola, where he assured that in Angola 56 Autonomous System Number (ASN), where only eleven of them have Interconnection to exchange traffic.
How many data centers are registered in Angola?
According to data provided during his presentation, the expert assured that currently there are only three data centers registered in Angola, among which Angonap from Angola Cables, the ITA data center and that of Multipla.
Use of IPv6 in Angola
The move to IPv6 can mean more security for the Internet, because the standard has an encrypted protocol, which can identify the entire path traveled by each IP. For end users, this change should not even be noticed. "This will happen invisibly."
Physically hosted content delivery networks in Angola
At the end of the presentation, it was ensured that major content creators like Google, Facebook, Azion and Netflix already has its contents physically hosted in Angolan territory.
