[kictanet] The urgent case for a Regional Internet Exchange Point (RIXP)

[Esther Wanjau]

Dear Harry,

COMESA already has a concept paper on the RIXP.  Please contact the Director of Information and Networking in COMESA Secretariat Sherin Shoukry on shoukry at comesa.int for more information.  Also visit www.comesa.int and see the progress made in regard to IT.  There you will find the reports of the IT technical committees already held.

Hope this helps.

Esther

--- On Wed, 6/2/10, Harry Delano <harry at comtelsys.co.ke> wrote:

From: Harry Delano <harry at comtelsys.co.ke>
Subject: Re: [kictanet] The urgent case for a Regional Internet Exchange Point (RIXP)
To: esther_wanjau at yahoo.com
Cc: "'KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions'" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Date: Wednesday, June 2, 2010, 11:17 PM



 
 
Thanks alot John, Am checking this out...
 
Harry



From: John Kariuki 
[mailto:ngethe.kariuki2007 at yahoo.co.uk] 
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 
7:07 AM
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Subject: Re: [kictanet] The urgent case for a Regional 
Internet Exchange Point (RIXP)




  
  
    
      There is a project called "EAC-BIN" under "Connect Africa 
      Initiative". I would suggest you search the two in the web for more 
      details.
       
      John Kariuki

--- On Wed, 2/6/10, Harry Delano 
      <harry at comtelsys.co.ke> wrote:

      
From: 
        Harry Delano <harry at comtelsys.co.ke>
Subject: [kictanet] The 
        urgent case for a Regional Internet Exchange Point (RIXP)
To: 
        ngethe.kariuki2007 at yahoo.co.uk
Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" 
        <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Date: Wednesday, 2 June, 2010, 
        20:39


        
        Listers,
         
         
        I have 
        noticed, that while all laudable efforts in speeding up 
        our broadband connectivity to the
        rest of the 
        world hits top gear, saddeningly regional local 
        interconnectivity lags behind. Why 
        
        is this 
        so...?
         
        For 
        instance reaching a branch office located in Tanzania from 
        their Kenya HQ office,or  vice 
        versa means 
        traffic transits out from our cyberspace to some international 
        exchange point
        somwhere in 
        London, hits the return trip back via some other Link to Dar. 
        This especially
        affects VOIP 
        connectivity and quality, between interconnected offices, and other 
        services
        that rely on 
        good QOS.
         
        This, 
        especially while we are working on the economic, Social, and perhaps 
        Political 
        intergration 
        of the Comesa block seems to fly in the face of the major milestones 
        that have
        been 
        achieved in the Telecommunication sectors of the member countries, and I 
        strongly
        suggest the 
        industry addresses this urgently. We need  a Regional Internet 
        Exchange point 
        set up. 
        Perhaps name it COMESA-IXP or something. But one thing is 
        clear; the more we
        each send 
        traffic destined locally on a roundtrip to Europe or elsewhere and back, 
        means
        we incur 
        huge transiting costs in the process, which dollars that we export out 
        should be
        be used to 
        expand and develop our local & Regional interconnection 
        capacity..
         
        I think, 
        this is an issue worth being addressed and I'd be interested to 
        discuss this more
        with 
        anyone interested to drive this forward. 
        Anyone..?
         
        Regards,
         
        Harry
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