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

[McTim]

Harry, not sure you got me well...

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Harry Delano <harry at comtelsys.co.ke> wrote:
>
> Thanks Mctim. Well articulated.
>
> Hopefully, we keep the dollars local by sending the "VOIP" and other packets
> directly, other than on a mundane roundtrip to Europe/US then back.

If we want to keep dollars local, then we need to encourage local
hosting. That's where the money outflow can most easily be corrected.

In terms of routing, packets from the EU often flow to the USA and
then back to the EU.  This is the way that routing economics has
always worked, it's not the shortest path that is important, usually
cheaper is chosen over shorter.  Topology is not geography.

In this case, my packets have one hop tween KiXP and  UG:

Tracing route to 41.220.1.125 over a maximum of 30 hops

  1    57 ms     3 ms     3 ms  192.168.1.1
  2    45 ms    49 ms    54 ms  41.206.46.10.accesskenya.com [41.206.46.10]
  3    42 ms    49 ms    49 ms  fe-01-kixp.accesskenya.com [196.207.31.78]
  4    56 ms    49 ms    44 ms  fe-01-kixp.accesskenya.com [196.207.31.78]
  5    46 ms    49 ms    49 ms  198.32.143.81
  6     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  7   232 ms   244 ms   237 ms  41.220.228.34
  8   290 ms   249 ms   244 ms  static-41-222-1-6.metronet.imul.com [41.222.1.6]
  9   249 ms   254 ms   249 ms  41.221.81.118
 10     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 11     *        *        *     Request timed out.


>
> See you, all going well in August..

I am planning to attend.

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel