[kictanet] Local Content - Beyond lip service

[aki]

Dear Robert,

I'd like to share some thoughts on this. :-)

Its a very good idea and I can relate to it because I'm doing/done some dev
work on multimedia as such.  There are many platforms that allow one to
create a youtube versions but I can see the developer has put in a lot of
effort. Unfortunately one may require millions of USD as startup capital. If
the server was placed in Kenya, I think the minimum required link capacity
would be around a monthly 1Gigabit/s which is not cheap either. Bandwidth
costs are against us but also how does the developer platform seek to
compete with this : e.g. Rihana's video (
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp4UwPZfRis&feature=relmfu ) is enough to
bring our entire country internet capacity to a standstill, the youtube farm
servers must be maxing out on everything and under processes stress.  She is
the content that many content developers can only dream of as content
distribution. In this video, there are almost *74million* views over a short
time. This file is about 40Mbtes X 74,000,000 views = Tera Bytes of internet
bandwidth needed!. Its possible that the entire Seacom/Teams bandwidth gone
with just 1 video and we may probably blow a Mux somewhere along the route!


So while we continue to develop platforms, let us also keep a watch out for
the real content that can really really drive traffic and we will surely get
there. I think it would be interesting if KICTB made next year as Digital TV
development, which I believe is our immediate development platform for
content due to simplex data directions. Unfortunately slow wireless
speeds do not help and non-unlimited internet access also means
that end viewers could run of out credit while watching local youtube, so it
will be a gradual process.

Corrections are welcome.

Rgds. :-)











On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 9:15 AM, robert yawe <robertyawe at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

>   Hi Listers,
>
> I have been following the activities of a local developer who has made
> great strides in creating a platform for hosting local content through his
> web site www.eziki.tv.
>
> Unfortunately due to the high cost of local hosting he has been forced,
> like many other brilliant young men and women, to host overseas where the
> cost are low but then they suffer the hit from bandwidth limitations.
>
> This young man has taken initiative and put down his resources to prove a
> concept and I believe he deserves direct local investment from funds such as
> Tandaa, Kazi Kwa Vijana and many others instead of us asking dreamers to
> present proposals and business plans for cloud based products.
>
> I would like to propose we pick up this has a project and bring the site
> back home and empower the team to move to greater heights before some VC
> from the US grabs him then we start lamenting.
>
> Please visit the site and see what is on offer, you can also view my
> channel http://www.eziki.tv/quadrantshiftafrica on which I will move most
> of my rants and raves for posterity and for easier access by those who have
> an issue with reading long text.
>
> Samsung and LG should look at this modem and see how to incorporate it in
> the new IP TVs and publicise access to eziki.tv as well as youtube and all
> those other sites.
>
> Robert Yawe
> KAY System Technologies Ltd
> Phoenix House, 6th Floor
> P O Box 55806 Nairobi, 00200
> Kenya
>
>
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