<div dir="ltr">@ John great points. Been following the Technology Service Providers of Kenya Tweeter Handle and i came across the following:
<div class="gmail-css-1dbjc4n"><div dir="auto" class="gmail-css-901oao gmail-r-hkyrab gmail-r-1qd0xha gmail-r-a023e6 gmail-r-16dba41 gmail-r-ad9z0x gmail-r-bcqeeo gmail-r-bnwqim gmail-r-qvutc0" id="gmail-tweet-text" lang="en"><span class="gmail-css-901oao gmail-css-16my406 gmail-r-1qd0xha gmail-r-ad9z0x gmail-r-bcqeeo gmail-r-qvutc0">In January 2020, regular Internet data traffic on the Kenya Internet Exchange Point was in the region of 7.50 Gbps, before jumping to 22.6 Gbps in early March 2020. This then jumped to 27 Gbps recently and they have seen spikes as high 57.80 Gbps ~</span></div><div class="gmail-css-901oao gmail-r-hkyrab gmail-r-1qd0xha gmail-r-a023e6 gmail-r-16dba41 gmail-r-ad9z0x gmail-r-bcqeeo gmail-r-bnwqim gmail-r-qvutc0" lang="en">Just from a call in which i heard that de-cix ixp is exchanging 9.1 TBS of Traffic, seems we have some work to do.</div><div class="gmail-css-901oao gmail-r-hkyrab gmail-r-1qd0xha gmail-r-a023e6 gmail-r-16dba41 gmail-r-ad9z0x gmail-r-bcqeeo gmail-r-bnwqim gmail-r-qvutc0" lang="en"><br></div><div class="gmail-css-901oao gmail-r-hkyrab gmail-r-1qd0xha gmail-r-a023e6 gmail-r-16dba41 gmail-r-ad9z0x gmail-r-bcqeeo gmail-r-bnwqim gmail-r-qvutc0" lang="en">Regards<br></div></div>
</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 5:20 PM John Gitau <<a href="mailto:jgitau@gmail.com">jgitau@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>One often overlooked factor in the internet ecosystem is hosting (including CDN's , caches and peering points). <br></div><div><br></div><div>I bet more than 70% of the conferencing traffic (zoom,webex, skype, microsoft) and e-learning that has an audio visual component; a huge chunk of that traffic is exchanged outside the country - mainly in Europe. Which means depending on the vendors architecture peer to peer traffic flows out of KE first. <br></div><div><br></div><div>This has huge cost implications for ISP's, a huge impact on quality but even better food for thought; if a single cable cut was to happen around this corona time, all work from home probably grinds to a halt or slows down.We need a good scalable local solution for commonly used services like conferencing.<br></div><div><br></div><div>JG<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 4:48 PM Barrack Otieno via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Listers,</div><div><br></div><div>Interesting perspectives on what we can do to improve the resilience of the Internet in this season. You can access the blog <a href="https://www.internetsociety.org/blog/2020/02/is-the-internet-resilient-enough-to-withstand-coronavirus/" target="_blank">here</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>Best Regards<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 7:48 PM Abshiro Halake via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Thank you all for the flow of information. Much appreciated indeed. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Mar 30, 2020, 13:14 Walubengo J via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div></div>
<div dir="ltr">I would hesitate to write-off any product based on security concerns.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Security is as good as you configure it to be. TEAMS can be as less secure as the alleged insecurity of ZOOM depending on how it was implemented and configured.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">In short, security is one independent conversation that cannot be collapsed into a singly product name. </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Otherwise you create a false sense of security....e.g, I use TEAMS so I am safer than those who use alternatives eg. ZOOM.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">When I was growing up, I used to have similar thinking. .. since I used LINUX, I always had this false sense of being more secure than those who used WINDOWS platforms ;-). </div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Security is more about the hardening, updating, configuring, maintaining, etc of your digital assets as opposed to the product itself.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">walu. </div><div dir="ltr">nb: ofcourse some products are outrightly nefarious and would still be unsafe even if you spend hours hardening them to be safe.</div><div dir="ltr"> </div>
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On Monday, March 30, 2020, 12:11:53 PM GMT+3, Erick Mwangi via kictanet <<a href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:
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Zoom is a mine field.<div><br clear="none"></div><div>I would advise folks to stay off zoom for any 'serious' discourse ( its ideally for social interactions). </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>There are a ton of options depending on industry (Skype for Business will be obsolete very soon) TEAMS is one suggestion in terms of ease and setting up.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Eric <br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>E Njoroge Mwangi</div><div>Technology| FINTECH | Big Data</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Cell <font color="#1155cc">+44 7539372742</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Skype: Erick.mwangi</div></div></div></div></div><br clear="none"></div></div><br clear="none"><div><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 7:17 AM Kathy Mwai via kictanet <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Hon Abshiro, <div><br clear="none"></div><div>Even the G20 has gone virtual. Here they were discussing their countries contributions to the fund researching on a vaccine. Just 2 days before the UK Prime Minister was taken ill. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Kathy</div></div><br clear="none"><div><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Mar 30, 2020, 00:48 Abshiro Halake via kictanet <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div>Thank you Kaka, Noah, Barrack,</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>I will look out for the Gire bill and see what in our context is the equivalent. I may need your help with providing the appropriate content. We don't have much time so time is of the essence. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Barrack thanks for the recommendation/suggestion of use of Zoom. I am a fun but Grace' insights yesterday opened my eyes to the fact that it may not be very secure. That said, what is, these days. Will add it to the list of apps to consider for sure. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Thanks you all once again. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Cheers, </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Abshiro. </div><div><br clear="none"><div><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Mar 29, 2020, 21:31 Barrack Otieno via kictanet <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>Kaka,<div><br clear="none"></div><div>You raise very interesting points. I actually think the East African Community should also take up the matter. For Citizens to properly embrace the Internet in the Region, Trust is key. Quality of service, reliability and security of the Networks is a key consideration. We need more investment in connectivity within the EAC Countries and within the region. We also need affordable smart devices. What is the use of connectivity if citizens cannot afford devices that will enable them to make good use of the links. If it means zero rating so be it. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Mheshimiwa Abshiro we need the equivalent of the High Perfomance Computing Act aka the Gore bill to move our country forwad in ICT issues.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Regards</div></div><br clear="none"><div><div dir="ltr">On Sun, 29 Mar 2020, 8:14 pm Noah via kictanet, <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div>I totally agree with you @Walu and I believe we are on the same page but my only caution was for us not to focus so much on vendor sythax (which can be crammed to aid implementation) but rather principles.<div><br clear="none"></div><div>Back to the main topic, Internet infrastructure across East Africa more than just Kenya needs robust upgrades and improving.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Bloody Covid19 is already a game changer and I believe we are all taking lessons from it especially within our space with the ICT infrastructure which politicians used to think was some luxury for a few elites proving to be a necessity in such a time. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><div>*ICT could emerge stronger post COVID-19*</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Some foresee an increase in demand for cloud computing platforms with enterprise applications proving to be inaccessible during lockdowns and #karantini. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Increasing usage of remote and collaboration tools. This requires bandwidth like serious bandwidth.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Increase in traffic to video streaming sites and social media platforms (Isolation is tough hey, humans are not wild beasts or gods, they must continue socializing)</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Increased usage of apps from grocery delivery apps to essential goods apps. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Most importantly the future of education in the face of another future pendamic [1] with online education becoming defacto especially when schools in future could possibly be closed beyond just one moon.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>#ICT infrastructure is #critical infrastructure.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Noah</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>[1] Hellooooo....., there was the Spanish Flu, then the Influenza, then the SARS, then the Swine Flu, the Ebola and you guessed it right COVID-19.</div><div><br style="font-family:sans-serif" clear="none"></div></div></div><br clear="none"><div><div dir="ltr">On Sun, 29 Mar 2020, 19:52 Walubengo J, <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:jwalu@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank">jwalu@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div></div>
<div dir="ltr">True, BUT assume I am Safaricom with maybe 70% of my infrastructure on Huawei and want to hire a Telco Engineer.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">I prolly would get a candidate who has the Telco degree (the principles) and the Huawei Certification as the added advantage.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">The other way around it would be that I hire then send the candidate back to finishing school for some hands on training. </div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">Universities providing both principles and skills will have an advantage.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">On a light note, Imagine teaching Blockchain Technologies using only <a shape="rect" href="https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank">Satoshi's Paper (the principles)</a> and not having access to say <a shape="rect" href="https://www.ibm.com/blockchain/what-is-blockchain" rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank">IBM Blockchain platforms</a> to provide students with some Lab exposure. The ones with Lab exposure will often stand out.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">Having said that, there are those who 'cram' and pass vendor-certificate exams without really learning the principles. That is also a major risk to employers.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">walu.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div>
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On Sunday, March 29, 2020, 07:37:26 PM GMT+3, Noah <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:noah@neo.co.tz" rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank">noah@neo.co.tz</a>> wrote:
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<div><div id="gmail-m_-8169283158637271245gmail-m_6466479755960049755gmail-m_1785440962065610697m_-4677658209048619200ydp4b3159efyiv5682508784gmail-m_1087730458461400216m_7713156349368929942m_4819521189640214924m_-4149722691884791125m_-2210105653168973815m_1856659229172669441ydpc2de2a94yiv2128798599"><div><div>@Walu<div><br clear="none"></div><div>I agree that a cocktail of standard principles and *mutlivendor* sythax should be the approach that can go on to see us provide better skills transfer.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>I only caution us from repeating the old and outdated approach of only focusing training on one vendor since this only goes to help promote the vendors products in our markets rather provide true knowledge.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Employers should careless about Cisco or Juniper or Huawei but rather seek knowledgeable candidates who understand technology rather than people who have crammed how to implement a specific vendor sythax.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Noah</div><div><br clear="none"></div></div><br clear="none"><div id="gmail-m_-8169283158637271245gmail-m_6466479755960049755gmail-m_1785440962065610697m_-4677658209048619200ydp4b3159efyiv5682508784gmail-m_1087730458461400216m_7713156349368929942m_4819521189640214924m_-4149722691884791125m_-2210105653168973815m_1856659229172669441ydpc2de2a94yiv2128798599yqt21325"><div><div dir="ltr">On Sun, 29 Mar 2020, 19:26 Walubengo J, <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:jwalu@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank">jwalu@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div><div></div>
<div dir="ltr">@Noah,</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">Maybe we can do both. Teach the principles as well as offer exposure to one or several of the vendor technologies (whichever that maybe). I always find such an approach much more enriching and complimentary in my classes.</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">Teaching 'principles' without offering some practical vendor sessions is like teaching Wordprocessing - without using MS-Word/OpenOffice/etc because you are trying too hard to be vendor-agnostic ;-)</div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">In short, I do appreciate the need to teach principles but also appreciate the need to use vendor specific examples/labs to drive the point home. </div><div dir="ltr"><br clear="none"></div><div dir="ltr">walu.</div><div><br clear="none"></div>
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On Sunday, March 29, 2020, 07:03:16 PM GMT+3, Noah via kictanet <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:
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<div><div id="gmail-m_-8169283158637271245gmail-m_6466479755960049755gmail-m_1785440962065610697m_-4677658209048619200ydp4b3159efyiv5682508784gmail-m_1087730458461400216m_7713156349368929942m_4819521189640214924m_-4149722691884791125m_-2210105653168973815m_1856659229172669441ydpc2de2a94yiv2128798599m_-6662280636663138845ydp56d35353yiv4495509303"><div><div><div>The intermittent ip networks and grid-power aside.<div><br clear="none"></div><div>Am curious to know why in this day and time and day, we are still focusing on vendor specific trainings.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>During earlier 2000's we focused so much on the Cisco's, then somehow the Junipers and today we are seeing the <span style="font-family:sans-serif">Huawei syntax.</span></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Shouldn't we be focusing in todays Africa on teaching standard protocols even at a fundamental level and cocktail of vendors sythax rather than continually pushing some specific vendors technology which indirectly markets their kit as defacto to those we keep imbibing the skills too.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Just my thoughts....</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Noah</div><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div><div id="gmail-m_-8169283158637271245gmail-m_6466479755960049755gmail-m_1785440962065610697m_-4677658209048619200ydp4b3159efyiv5682508784gmail-m_1087730458461400216m_7713156349368929942m_4819521189640214924m_-4149722691884791125m_-2210105653168973815m_1856659229172669441ydpc2de2a94yiv2128798599m_-6662280636663138845ydp56d35353yiv4495509303yqt09645"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, 29 Mar 2020, 11:28 Kelvin Kariuki via kictanet, <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">This is very true Barrack, <div>I have been teaching a live online class on a Huawei Certification in the past week</div><div>using Zoom and some of my students, who are on different parts of the country, </div><div>have really had issues keeping up because of poor internet connections and </div><div>regular disconnections. Thank God Zoom has a feature to record the classes </div><div>but for sure this is something that we need to look into. </div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>PS: All my students are using Safaricom as Huawei Kenya offered them with </div><div>credit cards to buy internet bundles in order to be able to learn online. The training</div><div>I'm doing is Huawei Certified ICT Associate (Routing & Switching)</div></div><br clear="none"><div><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 11:14 AM Ali Hussein via kictanet <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke" rel="nofollow noreferrer" target="_blank">kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:georgia,serif">Barrack</div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif">You got that right. Both Safaricom and Zuku have been intermittent over the past few days. Let's not even start with Kenya Power...</div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br clear="none"></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif">Regards</div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif"><br clear="none"></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><b><font size="2" face="georgia, serif">Ali
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