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

[Brian Munyao Longwe]

Hi McTim,

Attached please find a graph reporting on "local" data transfer between 7
ISPs in Tanzania and 5 ISPs in Kenya via SimbaNet's "EAIXP".  This was back
in February last year - when I visited the control centre in Dar es Salaam.

As you will see, the graph only reports 1 week traffic - but the aggregate
(IN + OUT) is about 10Gb of traffic.

A key point to note is that this was via a slow satellite link running at
approx 256k

I can only imagine what we would see if the interlink was OFC!

There is definitely a critical need for this issue to be looked at closely
and in great detail.

Regards,

Brian

On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 10:31 PM, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Harry,
>
> On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Harry Delano <harry at comtelsys.co.ke>
> wrote:
> >
> > McTim,
> >
> > Thanks, I definitely understand your point..
>
> I'm not sure you do.
>
>
> >
> > What we are saying, and I suppose what everyone should be concerned about
> > is,if we got 10 - 30GB
>
>
> Is this you as an enduser doing this much? or your corporate
> environment?  I do about 1 GB per week.
>
>
>  of
> > data per week on average,why transport to Europe and back paying transit
> > costs in the process,
>
> My point was those transit costs are paid already, in fact, in this
> era, we ("we" being the folks who have bought the fat pipes) pay for
> more bandwidth than we can use at the moment.  I am suggesting that in
> the absence of hard data about regional traffic flows (and I've been
> looking for this data for several years), we are just speculating that
> regional interconnectivity is urgent (or even needed).
>
> when
> > we should otherwise work to develop our Regional interconnectivity. It's
> > like saying some years
> > earlier on, that we do not need a locl exchange point like KIXP,
>
> It just seems like its the same argument, its not.
>
>  because
> > it's cheaper to send traffic
> > out and back.
>
> but it wasn't cheaper at that point.
>
> Keep local traffic, "Local". Simple. We cannot keep talking
> > about regional intergration
>
> sure we can.
>
> > when such a small matter as inter-regional connectivity cannot be sorted
> > out.
>
> It's not a small matter, believe me, I've tried to implement it.
>
> >
> > While, we still have a lot of content hosted, and accessed out there it
> > should never be lost on us
> > that we similarly have a lot of inter-Regional traffic,
>
> I would greatly appreciate any hard data you have on this traffic.
>
> --
> Cheers,
>
> McTim
> "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
> route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel
>
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