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

Thu Jun 3 12:56:46 EAT 2010

Harry,
Your welcome.  Information is power and should be shared.  Hope to hear from you soon.

Esther

--- On Thu, 6/3/10, 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'" <esther_wanjau at yahoo.com>
Cc: "'KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions'" <kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke>
Date: Thursday, June 3, 2010, 2:26 AM

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

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

        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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