[kictanet] Seacom goes live?

[Bill Kagai]

Then this is brilliant.......

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 3:59 AM, Brian Munyao Longwe<blongwe at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Bill Kagai<billkagai at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On further scrutiny, AS6453 connects me straight from Palo Alto via
>> San Jose to London to Kenya.
>>
>> Is it true that Tata owns AS6453??? Brian??? Can I be put on 'Seacom'
>> straight from Silicon Valley????
>
> Look at http://as6453.net/
> and ARIN's WHOIS search confirms:
> Tata Communications (AS6453) AS6453    6453
> Tata Communications (AS6453) AS6453    6453
>
> # ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2009-07-28 20:00
> # Enter ? for additional hints on searching ARIN's WHOIS database.
>
> To get onto SEACOM straight from Silicon valley you probably need to
> have connectivity with a Tier 1 or Tier 2 provider in the USA who can
> do a cross-connect directly with Seacom. You could probably get this
> directly from Tata as they have significant network assets in the US.
>
>
> Brian
>
>>
>> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 3:39 AM, Bill Kagai<billkagai at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 2:07 AM, Brian Munyao Longwe<blongwe at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> As usual Michael, you are right! I did a traceroute  (connected on
>>>> Onecom/Safaricom)
>>>>
>>>> As you can see it hops into London and gets onto AS6453 in London
>>>> which belongs to Tata.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Am in San Francisco (Stanford) at the moment and I did a traceroute
>>> back to Kenya (Safarciom) and the loop back also goes through AS6453,
>>> which Brian says belongs to Tata. Times are indeed changing.....
>>>
>>> Last login: Wed Jul 29 03:31:23 on ttys000
>>> bildad-kagais-macbook-pro:~ billkagai$ traceroute www.safaricom.com
>>> traceroute to www.safaricom.com (196.201.208.27), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
>>>  1  10.10.23.254 (10.10.23.254)  45.917 ms  44.297 ms  44.677 ms
>>>  2  r1-ca-paix-cr2.nextweb.net (209.172.123.1)  43.242 ms  45.247 ms  43.797 ms
>>>  3  r1-ca-paix-cr1.nextweb.net (64.186.160.145)  44.885 ms  45.004 ms  46.307 ms
>>>  4  ge-6-5.car2.SanJose2.Level3.net (4.79.59.9)  43.669 ms  43.299 ms  43.022 ms
>>>  5  ae-2-79.edge1.SanJose3.Level3.net (4.68.18.80)  45.312 ms  44.725
>>> ms  44.629 ms
>>>  6  if-2-0.icore1.SQN-SanJose.as6453.net (209.58.116.13)  51.651 ms
>>> 58.081 ms  49.481 ms
>>>  7  Vlan1104.icore1.PDI-PaloAlto.as6453.net (209.58.116.10)  54.913 ms
>>>  53.914 ms  53.764 ms
>>>  8  Vlan1116.icore1.NJY-Newark.as6453.net (206.82.132.29)  126.026 ms
>>> 125.367 ms  126.429 ms
>>>  9  if-6-0-0-38.mcore4.NJY-Newark.as6453.net (216.6.63.45)  130.446 ms
>>> if-1-0-0-1101.mcore4.NJY-Newark.as6453.net (216.6.63.5)  137.390 ms
>>> 135.662 ms
>>> 10  if-1-0.mcore3.L78-London.as6453.net (195.219.144.9)  186.404 ms
>>> 188.979 ms  188.408 ms
>>> 11  if-5-0-0.mcore3.LDN-London.as6453.net (195.219.195.9)  186.145 ms
>>> 185.956 ms  187.456 ms
>>> 12  ix-12-1-0.mcore3.LDN-London.as6453.net (195.219.195.110)  456.344
>>> ms  408.995 ms  440.314 ms
>>> 13  196.201.208.27 (196.201.208.27)  366.301 ms  409.065 ms  409.246 ms
>>> bildad-kagais-macbook-pro:~ billkagai$
>>>
>>
>>
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