Serve East Africa from its tech capital. KIXP peering keeps Kenyan traffic in-country, with fiber backhaul to the Mombasa subsea landings connecting the region to the Middle East, Asia, and Europe.
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Nairobi is East Africa's technology capital — the home of mobile money and the regional base for global tech companies serving over 300 million people across the East African Community. Our presence peers at KIXP with carriers including Safaricom, Liquid Intelligent Technologies, and Telkom Kenya.
Fiber backhaul reaches the Mombasa subsea landings for routes to the Middle East, Asia, and Europe, with Johannesburg 50 ms away. The facility is Tier-3+ with a 99.99% uptime SLA and 24/7 on-site support.
Quick answers to common questions about deploying compute, bare metal and cloud connectivity in Nairobi.
Zenlayer's Nairobi location is in the AFRICA region. It peers locally via KIXP. Upstream connectivity is provided through WIOCC.
Zenlayer Cloud Connect supports dedicated Layer 2 paths from Nairobi to major hyperscalers. See the Cloud Connect panel on this page for the clouds currently available at this location.
Nairobi is connected to the Zenlayer private backbone with deterministic, low-latency paths to other Zenlayer locations. The full latency matrix is published on this page. You can also use Looking Glass on this page to run live PING / MTR / BGP checks.
Bare metal cloud (BMC) servers aren't generally available in Nairobi yet. Contact us to scope custom or bulk deployments, or see the Bare Metal documentation to explore other Zenlayer locations.
Zenlayer Elastic Compute (ZEC) virtual machines aren't available in Nairobi yet. Contact us for availability, or see the Elastic Compute documentation to explore other Zenlayer locations.
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