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

Thu Mar 31 15:16:19 EAT 2022

Thanks Michuki for the update

Best Regards,

Alex

From: Michuki Mwangi <michuki.mwangi at gmail.com> 
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2022 2:53 PM
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Subject: Re: [kictanet] Kenya gets sixth 16 Terabytes per second submarine fibre cable

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 <mailto:kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> > wrote:

Hi  <mailto:awatila at yahoo.co.uk> @Watila Alex 

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.  <mailto:mwangi at isoc.org> @Michuki Mwangi 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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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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