Hi Bill/Brian, Brian Munyao Longwe wrote:
To get onto SEACOM straight from Silicon valley you probably need to have connectivity with a Tier 1 or Tier 2 provider in the USA who can do a cross-connect directly with Seacom. You could probably get this directly from Tata as they have significant network assets in the US.
From Asia, peering with Google, Akamai and others should also yield less
Its likely going to be cheaper (since SEACOM is just a carrier) for the operators with IRU's on this case to get peering/transit at strategic locations (London/Singapore) with peering/transit providers who give single hopes to most of the US and Eastern Europe. Transit costs at this points with good carriers should be at least $15 or less per Mbps that when buying over 100Mbps. than 3 hops. Alot more network engineering should also be done within our own networks. I find it abit strange that a user has 5 hops within onecom.co.ke network before touching the gateway!. Reducing that to a max of 3 would make it 10 hops or less to yahoo.com and that would give a better experience to alot of folks too :). my 2 cents. Michuki.