Hi all,<br><br>I am not sure if this has been shared on this list but for those of you who may be interested in joining an open discussion on the fiber you are welcome to attend the September Science Cafe at the Alliance Francaise (French Cultural Center) on Satruday (tomorrow) from 1.30 to 4.00.<br>
<br>It is open to the public, free entrance. And I am pretty sure coffee and snacks are on the house for those who turn up.<br><br>It will be at the Jardin de Paris cafe inside the FCC.<br><br>I have attached the poster. <br>
<br>This is not a formal conference or anything like that, the Science Cafes aim to educate and enlighten the general public.<br><br>Good day.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 8:48 AM, S.Murigi Muraya <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:murigi.muraya@gmail.com">murigi.muraya@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Aki,<br>
<br>
Please explain what a POP is? How does it work? What are tiered
services?<br>
<br>
Michuki Mwangi could also educate some of us about the KIXP. Am aware
he is on travel until next week so .. Why is locally switched (KIXP)
data (content) cheaper than internationally routed data (content)?
Maybe Aki could explain while we wait for Michuki to tell us more next
week. Why would we host our apps locally rather than 'out there'? Am
sure this will go deeper @ skunkworks but many on this list also need
help too.<br>
<br>
Kind Regards<br>
<br>
SMM<br>
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aki wrote:
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<div>Good morning, I'm a techie and a regular contributor on
skunkslist. I'd like to add some contributions. Any views below are
personal and not meant to cause any negative actions etc.. :-)</div>
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<div>I received an email attachment on the above subject detailing
the program of the event. Though I'm not in a position to attend, I
wanted to share my thoughts. After reviewing it, the program does not
seem to hold much on what and where fiber should be heading in kenya.
The program seems to revolve around a concept " when fiber arrives ".
There are many excellent contributors on the program list and I hope
that the summit will take things to much higher levels of discussion
and focus on progress development through commitments. As I mentioned
in my earlier contributions on other lists, Kdn and Safaricom (
including Onecom ) made history on July 27th. Safaricom took it further
by holding event meetings for cyber owners outside Nairobi while
Kdn was also able to push seacom packets all the way to the ugandan
border. The summit should, in my view, present the strategies and
solutions on offer based on techology, expansion and deployment of the
fiber Nationally and across the border. </div>
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<div>This also brings me to my second point of contribution : TATA
and Point of Presence in kenya :</div>
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<div>I was quite glad when recently TATA announced that they would be
putting up a POP in kenya for tiered services. To have this pop in
kenya was quite an important achievement and goes to show that Fiber
will make Kenya a communications regional hub for the region. However,
it has recently announced that TATA have gone with Access Kenya on this
development. While I have nothing against any service provider or in
this case Access Kenya, I believe that TATA have have made a
disappointing start on the POP. As far as I know, Access Kenya does not
at the moment represent itself as a National Operator nor does its
services spread nationally nor across the border into Uganda or Rwanda.
I'd have thought that TATA would be considering KDN, TKL or even
Safaricom ( Onecom ) for its POP. I hope in future POP operators do
realise the impact of their decisions. </div>
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<div>Corrections are welcome. </div>
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<div>Rgds.</div>
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