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

Thu Jun 3 12:26:24 EAT 2010

Esther, Brian & Muriuki,

Thanks so much for this invaluable feedback. I'm scouring all the resources
mentioned.  It's so encouraging 
that there are already efforts underway to address this to get the member
countries interconnected. Hopefully,
some sense of urgency can be injected into this to get the project off the
ground so that we can harness 
maximum benefits from the improved interconnectivity within the countries,
especially on Fibre.

Esther, I will email Shoukry, and will report back..

Regards,
Harry

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From: Esther Wanjau [mailto:esther_wanjau at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 11:41 AM
To: harry at comtelsys.co.ke
Cc: 'KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions'
Subject: Re: [kictanet] The urgent case for a Regional Internet Exchange
Point (RIXP)

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

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From: John Kariuki [mailto:ngethe.kariuki2007 at yahoo.co.uk] 
Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 7:07 AM
To: harry at comtelsys.co.ke
Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions
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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