[kictanet] East African Fiber Summit

[Mworia Wilfred Mutua]

Hi all,

I am not sure if this has been shared on this list but for those of you who
may be interested in joining an open discussion on the fiber you are welcome
to attend the September Science Cafe at the Alliance Francaise (French
Cultural Center) on Satruday (tomorrow) from 1.30 to 4.00.

It is open to the public, free entrance. And I am pretty sure coffee and
snacks are on the house for those who turn up.

It will be at the Jardin de Paris cafe inside the FCC.

I have attached the poster.

This is not a formal conference or anything like that, the Science Cafes aim
to educate and enlighten the general public.

Good day.

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 8:48 AM, S.Murigi Muraya <murigi.muraya at gmail.com>wrote:

>  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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