[kictanet] Mpesa Migration

[Barrack Otieno]

Majority of the customers are in Kenya, the logic of keeping traffic
local as Phares has explained makes sense.

Regards

On 4/21/15, Ahmed Mohamed Maawy via kictanet
<kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
> I think the broader issue here is Safaricom is a Kenyan company - based in
> Kenya. And the servers were in the UK. That is what all this is about.
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 9:28 AM, simiyu mse via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
>> Is this to say the system is not being future proofed with the intent
>> to go global, since in this case the physical location of said servers
>> should not be an issue.
>>
>> When it comes to cost, i believe any internet traffic cost savings
>> will be translated to the maintainance and running of the local tier 2
>> data centers set up for this infrastructure. Am sure they are running
>> more than one for this.
>>
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>> ./ken
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