[kictanet] Internet Outage Tuesday Oct-13-2009

Thu Oct 15 17:42:19 EAT 2009

Hi Fiona,

While all of what you have said is true, the only uptime that you can
monitor from KIXP (based on how I originally designed it) is uptime for
operators/providers/members on their link to KIXP. In other words, there is
now way of determining if their upstream/international connectivity is
working or not.

I believe that the initiator of this thread might have been referring to
'external' internet access as opposed to 'local' internet access.

Best regards,

Brian

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Fiona Asonga <tespok at tespok.co.ke> wrote:

>  Hallo Conrad,
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> The Telecommunications Service Providers Association of Kenya set up, runs
> and manages the Kenya Internet Exchange Point as one of the many services it
> provides to operators. At the Kenya Internet Exchange Point we are able to
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> ·         Monitor the levels of local internet traffic from connected
> members,
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> ·         Monitor downtime
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> ·         Can generate reports of how long a particular operator was down
> and whether the down time is as a result of equipment at the IXP or other
> operator location (Downtime of an operator at the KIXP implies that the
> local internet traffic is going out as international traffic then back into
> the country therefore some delay)
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> ·         Monitor user behavior in terms of what users are doing online
> locally and periods when local internet is most used
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> We also provide shared value add services to peering members that translate
> to a better experience for the consumer such as
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> ·         Training members’ technical staff on new peering standards and
> international best practices (We have a hands on training kit from one of
> our partners to facilitate this)
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> ·         We have  recently introduced  shared online security monitoring
> tools for all peering members courtesy of a renown global online security
> experts
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> ·         Peering members get global recognition to enable them peer
> directly to other IXPs such as London and Amsterdam
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> ·         We also house the .ke, .net, .com, J-root, F-root and I-root
> servers or mirror instances
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> We currently have 28 operators, government departments running key services
> online that require access by the general public and the Academic network
> are connected at the KIXP.
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> You may contact me if you have any specific queries you may need answered.
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> Kind Regards
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> Fiona Asonga
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> Chief Executive Officer
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> Telecommunications Service Providers Association of Kenya/
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> Kenya Internet Exchange Point
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> 14th Floor, Bruce House
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> Standard Street
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> Tel: +254 20 2245 036
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> *From:* kictanet-bounces+tespok=tespok.co.ke at lists.kictanet.or.ke [mailto:
> kictanet-bounces+tespok <kictanet-bounces%2Btespok>=tespok.co.ke@
> lists.kictanet.or.ke] *On Behalf Of *Rad!
> *Sent:* Thursday, October 15, 2009 3:34 PM
> *To:* tespok at tespok.co.ke
> *Cc:* KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
> *Subject:* Re: [kictanet] Internet Outage Tuesday Oct-13-2009
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> Come to think of it, is there some government body or other such entity,
> public or otherwise, that monitors this sort of thing? Internet uptime and
> connectivity is pretty much a national resource now -- disrupting the
> internet or the mobile telephone networks will definitely have an impact on
> the country and economy. Is there anyone monitoring this?
>
> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 3:02 PM, Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Fiona Asonga <tespok at tespok.co.ke> wrote:
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> Hallo Mwangi,
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> I am not sure where you got your information  from but based on monitoring
> tools statistics at the Kenya Internet Exchange Point none of the service
> providers you have listed had any problems.
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> Hi Fiona,
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> Last night, while connected via Safaricom 3G, and working on a server
> hosted at KDN by one of the providers, I lost connection to that server at
> around 10-ish and could not even ping it, though it was and still is UP so
> there's some credibility to the allegation.
>
>
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Odhiambo WASHINGTON,
> Nairobi,KE
> +254733744121/+254722743223
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