[kictanet] Internet - Slow

[Anderson Levi]

They do have backup PoPs but there has been reluctance by some carriers to
connect to them. Perhaps they haven't seen the need... until now...
 On Apr 2, 2013 8:51 PM, "Brian Munyao Longwe" <blongwe at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi McTim,
>
> I don't know as I haven't been directly involved with KIXP for a number of
> years now. But for such a major carrier to come crying to me there must be
> some issues :)
>
> Best regards,
>
> Brian
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 8:29 PM, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Brian,
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Brian Munyao Longwe
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> > It seems that the current structure is actually acting as a barrier
>> which is
>> > preventing the IXP from being relocated to better infrastructure in one
>> of
>> > the many data centers we have around the city (as was suggested by the
>> > member who raised the issue to me).
>>
>>
>> I had thought that KIXP had a backup location in a data center in NBO
>> as well as the Mombasa IX, which is a separate peering mesh.  Is that
>> not so?
>>
>>
>> --
>> 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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