[kictanet] East African Fiber Summit

[S.Murigi Muraya]

Aki,

Please explain what a POP is? How does it work? What are tiered services?

Michuki Mwangi could also educate some of us about the KIXP. Am aware he 
is on travel until next week so .. Why is locally switched (KIXP) data 
(content) cheaper than internationally routed data (content)? Maybe Aki 
could explain while we wait for Michuki to tell us more next week. Why 
would we host our apps locally rather than 'out there'? Am sure this 
will go deeper @ skunkworks but many on this list also need help too.

Kind Regards

SMM


aki wrote:
> Good morning, I'm a techie and a regular contributor on skunkslist. 
> I'd like to add some contributions. Any views below are personal and 
> not meant to cause any negative actions etc.. :-)
>  
> I received an email attachment on the above subject detailing the 
> program of the event. Though I'm not in a position to attend, I wanted 
> to share my thoughts. After reviewing it, the program does not seem to 
> hold much on what and where fiber should be heading in kenya. The 
> program seems to revolve around a concept " when fiber arrives ". 
> There are many excellent contributors on the program list and I hope 
> that the summit will take things to much higher levels of discussion 
> and focus on progress development through commitments. As I mentioned 
> in my earlier contributions on other lists, Kdn and Safaricom ( 
> including Onecom ) made history on July 27th. Safaricom took it 
> further by holding event meetings for cyber owners outside Nairobi 
> while Kdn was also able to push seacom packets all the way to the 
> ugandan border. The summit should, in my view, present the strategies 
> and solutions on offer based on techology, expansion and deployment of 
> the fiber Nationally and across the border. 
>  
> This also brings me to my second point of contribution : TATA and 
> Point of Presence in kenya :
>  
> I was quite glad when recently TATA announced that they would be 
> putting up a POP in kenya for tiered services. To have this pop in 
> kenya was quite an important achievement and goes to show that Fiber 
> will make Kenya a communications regional hub for the region. However, 
> it has recently announced that TATA have gone with Access Kenya on 
> this development. While I have nothing against any service provider or 
> in this case Access Kenya, I believe that TATA have have made a 
> disappointing start on the POP. As far as I know, Access Kenya does 
> not at the moment represent itself as a National Operator nor does its 
> services spread nationally nor across the border into Uganda or 
> Rwanda. I'd have thought that TATA would be considering KDN, TKL or 
> even Safaricom ( Onecom ) for its POP. I hope in future POP operators 
> do realise the impact of their decisions.
>  
> Corrections are welcome.
>  
> Rgds.
>  
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