[kictanet] Seacom goes live?

[Michuki Mwangi]

Hi Bill/Brian,

Brian Munyao Longwe wrote:
> 
> 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.
> 

Its likely going to be cheaper (since SEACOM is just a carrier) for the
operators with IRU's on this case to get peering/transit at strategic
locations (London/Singapore) with peering/transit providers who give
single hopes to most of the US and Eastern Europe.

Transit costs at this points with good carriers should be at least $15
or less per Mbps that when buying over 100Mbps.

>From Asia, peering with Google, Akamai and others should also yield less
than 3 hops.

Alot more network engineering should also be done within our own
networks. I find it abit strange that a user has 5 hops within
onecom.co.ke network before touching the gateway!. Reducing that to a
max of 3 would make it 10 hops or less to yahoo.com and that would give
a better experience to alot of folks too :).

my 2 cents.


Michuki.