[kictanet] Kenya gets sixth 16 Terabytes per second submarine fibre cable

Thu Mar 31 14:52:57 EAT 2022

Hi Alex, et al.

Cross-border interconnection is growing. Especially in East and Southern
Africa over the last 5 years. I would invite you to watch the recent
Virtual Peering Seria Africa held in February that discussed this same
issue -
https://www.afpif.org/virtual-peering-series-africa/unlocking-cross-border-connectivity-to-landlocked-countries-in-africa/

The short answer is yes, there has been quite a significant growth in the
intra-Africa capacity and resulting in more peering and interconnection of
networks. The longer answer is that, intra-Africa interconnection was
largely by sub-sea capacity but there is considerable capacity available
terrestrially, thanks to Liquid and others. The availability of this
increased capacity at competitive rates has been closely followed by
cross-border peering. 2 years ago, there were at least 6 African Networks
(ASNs registered under AfriNIC) that were visible in more than 20% of the
IXPs we were measuring in the continent. These networks serve as regional
transit providers and play a big role in keeping the traffic in the region.
We are working with AfriNIC and the University of Cape Town (UCT) to
rebuild the Africa Route Collector and Data Analyzer (ARDA) tool which will
enable us to have a more current view of the regional and cross-border
interconnection. Central, North, and West Africa are not as interconnected
compared to East and Southern Africa despite having IXPs. There are other
factors related to the cost of IP transport/transit, the availability of
carrier-neutral data centres, and other policy-related issues. Overall, it
is work in progress but it is a much better landscape compared to a couple
of years back.

I hope that helps.

Regards,

Michuki.

On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 7:37 AM Barrack Otieno via KICTANet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

> Hi @Watila Alex <awatila at yahoo.co.uk>
>
> Commendable progress has been made in this area. As far is know traffic at
> KIXP has grown significantly and there are many more IXPs coming  up in
> Africa under the Africa Union and Internet Society supported AXIS Project. @Michuki
> Mwangi <mwangi at isoc.org> can speak more authoritatively on what is
> happening on the Regional front.
>
>
> Regards
>
> On Wed, 30 Mar 2022, 6:22 pm Alex Watila via KICTANet, <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>
>> what is the state of peering between the different  African countries?
>>
>> are we still able to keep local traffic local?
>>
>> are regional exchange points working e.g. can we keep eac traffic local?
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> On Wed, 30 Mar 2022, 09:24 Mwendwa Kivuva via KICTANet, <
>> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
>>
>>> The cable has a designed capacity of 16 Terabytes per second and is
>>> expected to last 25 years. The cable is set to improve efficiency and cut
>>> internet costs in Kenya.
>>>
>>> Dubbed Peace Cable, it is connecting Pakistan, Kenya, Egypt, France and
>>> countries along the way with an extension to Singapore and South Africa.
>>>
>>> It was funded under Public Private Partnership courtesy of Telkom Kenya,
>>> Orange, Telecom Egypt, Cybernet, HMN Tech and PCCW Global.
>>>
>>>
>>> https://www.the-star.co.ke/news/2022-03-29-kenya-gets-sixth-submarine-fibre-cable-worth-sh44-billion/
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