<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Gentlemen,</div><div><br></div><div> Just to clarify the MPESA platform is the Vodafone money transfer platform you may have seen historically. There are many benefits from having the system centrally hosted but we do continue to review the pros and cons to ensure that the platform remains on the cutting edge of technology and also benefits from economies of scale through sharing resources with the other countries in which MPESA has been rolled out to.</div><div><br></div><div>Best rgds <br><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On Mar 5, 2011, at 12:18 PM, "Odhiambo Washington" <<a href="mailto:odhiambo@gmail.com">odhiambo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 12:07, Michuki Mwangi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:michuki@swiftkenya.com"><a href="mailto:michuki@swiftkenya.com">michuki@swiftkenya.com</a></a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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Betty,<br>
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On 3/5/11 7:38 AM, Betty Mwangi wrote:<br>
> Thanks Solomon<br>
><br>
> Indeed there was an outage on M-PESA last evening whereby the<br>
> connectivity between the local servers and the database in Germany<br>
> temporarily failed. This was resolved last evening and apologies for the<br>
> inconvenience<br>
><br>
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</div><rant><br>
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From a technical stand-point the statement above can be easily<br>
interpreted as a technically flawed design IMHO. It almost states that<br>
the M-PESA services are "entirely" dependent on connectivity to Germany.<br>
<br>
I doubt if this is the case and you may want to clarify. If it is the<br>
case - i have to say its quite a challenge on your hands to provide an<br>
efficient service for a local service that depends on international<br>
connectivity.<br>
<br>
</rant><br>
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Michuki.<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I was going to rant about this too, but I decided not to, because something hit my mind: Since I have a Safaricom WiMax link which I use only for Int'l VoIP, them having to rely on DB servers in Germany is a good thing for me (perhaps) - that they will ensure my Int'l link never goes down:-)))</div>
<div><br></div><div>The negative side to what Betty said is simply something about Kenya's IT infrastructure. That Safaricom does NOT have faith in having their servers hosted locally, since they don't trust having their servers in Kenya. Now, that is another minus for Safaricom!</div>
</div><br>-- <br>Best regards,<br>Odhiambo WASHINGTON,<br>Nairobi,KE<br>+254733744121/+254722743223<br>_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ <br>Damn!!<br><br>
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