[kictanet] Seacom goes live?

[Walubengo J]

ok.  for a moment i thought i was on the skunkwork (techie) list  - so much of the ping, traceroutes,hops, etc ;-). 

nway, am not at the cool places Bill is operating from, but am pretty out of the .KE zone and when i made a voice call to a safaricom number, there was so much improvement i.e. less latency i.e. remember those days on international calls you had to say HELLO and wait for like 2-3seconds for the response...well it appears those days are over.

quality improvements seems to be kicking in.  now we wait for real price reductions...

walu

--- On Wed, 7/29/09, Michuki Mwangi <michuki at swiftkenya.com> wrote:

> From: Michuki Mwangi <michuki at swiftkenya.com>
> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Seacom goes live?
> To: jwalu at yahoo.com
> Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
> Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 10:13 PM
> 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.
> 
> 
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