[kictanet] East African Fiber Summit

[Akich Kwach]

Bwana Muraya,

Thanks very much for the bold question on the abbreviations used by Aki and others. It would be good for the contributors to appreciate that this List has people from various backround including farmers and it would be unfair for one to contribute in Greek without explaining what they mean. Communication is meaningless unless others undestand what you are saying. I agree with Aki that someties techies forget others are listening. 

I am not trying to attack anybody. What i mean is for ICT to make meaningful contributions in the economy, we must promote it as an enabler just like we use water, electricty to meet our business and domestic needs.

Otherwise I believe Fibre Summit is coming at the appropriate time and let's use the forum to move the country and the  region forward.

Akich Kwach
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: S.Murigi Muraya 
  To: kwach at archway-productions.com 
  Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions 
  Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 8:48 AM
  Subject: Re: [kictanet] East African Fiber Summit


  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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