[kictanet] Day 3 of 10:-IGF Discussions, Internet Interconnection Charges

[Michuki Mwangi]

Gakuru, Alex wrote:
> Glad you now understand that I know what peering is and was referring
> to a process within it. In relation to the discussion thread, while
> making my contribution I had in mind an earlier skunkworks
> discussion(30 reactions!) sparked by an article "Kenya IXP reduces
> connectivity costs, Internet speeds" here ... (30 April 2008) very
> practical relevance to end-users supposed cost savings (NOTE not
> questioned technical importance). My beef? The point I made was that
> too often and easily IXPs were overpraised (citing another skunkworks'
> expression of today "horse has been flogged to death (and back to
> life) countless times":) for their great technical ability to save on
> international transit bandwidth [to ISPs] but that those benefits need
> to  be passed on to the consumers i.e. translating to cheaper costs
> and higher quality internet. That's all folks....
> 
eeehhh... not likely to happen if over 80% of the traffic still goes
transit (or international) and only less than 20% is via peering. If we
can move to where the ratios interchange or even 60% is peering and 40%
is transit or a fifty fifty .. now would be talking.