A cross-connect is a dedicated, private link — single-mode fibre or copper — between two parties inside a Navon data centre. It never touches the public internet: a direct in-facility circuit to a cloud on-ramp, a carrier, a peer, or another of your own cabinets. Lower latency, stronger isolation, predictable performance.
Every cross-connect is the same simple thing — a dedicated link from your cabinet to a counterparty inside Hell's Gate. What changes is who sits on the other end.
A private door into AWS Direct Connect, Azure ExpressRoute or Google Cloud Interconnect — the highest-value link for enterprise and hyperscaler workloads that need the cloud without the public internet in between.
Direct access to a telecom's bandwidth without public-internet traversal — the backbone for ISPs, mobile operators and enterprise WAN connectivity.
East–west traffic to another tenant — partner integrations, CDN delivery, SaaS APIs. The connections that turn a building full of tenants into an ecosystem.
Cabinet-to-cabinet inside your own footprint as it grows — stitching rack A to rack J into one private fabric under your control.
A port onto the Kenya Internet Exchange (KIXP) and regional IXPs — local traffic stays local, at marginal cost, instead of routing through Europe and back.
Single-mode fibre, multi-mode fibre or copper, from 1 Gbps to 100 Gbps — sized to the port on each end. Redundant pairs available for protected paths.
The reason interconnection sits at the heart of every serious colocation facility is simple: a private path is faster, safer and more predictable than anything that crosses the open internet.
Speeds limited only by your end equipment, minimal packet loss, no exposure to fibre cuts across the city. Built for trading, real-time analytics and live platforms.
Traffic never traverses the public internet — no BGP hijacking, DDoS amplification or man-in-the-middle exposure. A baseline for banks, healthcare and government.
Private cloud access requires a physical cross-connect at a colocation facility. Navon becomes the gateway to global cloud for East African enterprises.
Every tenant added makes the building more valuable to all the others. More tenants, more useful connections, more reasons to stay — connectivity compounds.
Choose among multiple carriers and switch without relocating. Carrier neutrality is increasingly the first thing enterprise and cloud buyers ask for.
Cross-connects are requested straight from the Navon customer portal. Our team patches the physical path and confirms it live — you watch the status move from requested to live in real time.
Choose which of your cabinets the cross-connect originates from. Only your active cabinets appear.
Select the connection type, name the counterparty and the Z-side demarcation — the rack and port on the far end.
Port speed from 1 to 100 Gbps, media type, and any LOA/CFA reference or redundancy requirement in the notes.
Navon ops install the physical path, confirm commercials and mark it live — typically within one business day.
One published rack-card rate per cross-connect — no metering, no surprises. During the anchor-tenant phase at Hell's Gate, installation and monthly charges are waived to build the ecosystem; the standard rate applies to new circuits as the facility matures.
In emerging markets, interconnection does more work. Kenyan traffic has historically routed through London, Amsterdam or Johannesburg before coming back — adding cost and latency. Cross-connects at Hell's Gate keep it local.
A cross-connect to KIXP lets East African networks exchange traffic directly at marginal cost — cutting out the expensive trip through international hubs.
As AWS, Azure, Oracle and Google build out East African cloud regions, private on-ramp cross-connects are exactly what enterprise tenants will need.
Geothermal-powered colocation, KENET fibre access for the research sector, and sovereign cloud demand all converge at Hell's Gate — three distinct sources of connectivity.
Already a Navon colocation customer? Order a cross-connect from the portal and watch it go live. Not yet on the floor? Talk to us about cabinet space at Hell's Gate and the interconnection that comes with it.