ok. for a moment i thought i was on the skunkwork (techie) list - so much of the ping, traceroutes,hops, etc ;-). nway, am not at the cool places Bill is operating from, but am pretty out of the .KE zone and when i made a voice call to a safaricom number, there was so much improvement i.e. less latency i.e. remember those days on international calls you had to say HELLO and wait for like 2-3seconds for the response...well it appears those days are over. quality improvements seems to be kicking in. now we wait for real price reductions... walu --- On Wed, 7/29/09, Michuki Mwangi <michuki@swiftkenya.com> wrote:
From: Michuki Mwangi <michuki@swiftkenya.com> Subject: Re: [kictanet] Seacom goes live? To: jwalu@yahoo.com Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> Date: Wednesday, July 29, 2009, 10:13 PM Hi Bill/Brian,
Brian Munyao Longwe wrote:
To get onto SEACOM straight from Silicon valley you
have connectivity with a Tier 1 or Tier 2 provider in
do a cross-connect directly with Seacom. You could
probably need to the USA who can probably get this
directly from Tata as they have significant network assets in the US.
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.
From Asia, peering with Google, Akamai and others should also yield less 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.
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