Hey McTim, We got stats earlier on to this effect, gathered when efforts of a similar nature were being undertaken Apologies, we cannot rely on that, since clearly that was quite some time back. I suppose now we could be talking of something close to 500GB,of data maybe not even in a week's time, perhaps daily - my estimate. I agree, it would be good to get some hard stats/feasibilities, as we consider this. However, I also do think we have grown of age and we need to wire up and network Regionally as this would be the best direction we can take as an emerging economic bloc. Thanks, Harry -----Original Message----- From: McTim [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, June 07, 2010 10:31 PM To: [email protected] Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: Re: [kictanet] The urgent case for a Regional Internet Exchange Point (RIXP) Hi Harry, On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 8:38 PM, Harry Delano <[email protected]> wrote:
McTim,
Thanks, I definitely understand your point..
I'm not sure you do.
What we are saying, and I suppose what everyone should be concerned about is,if we got 10 - 30GB
Is this you as an enduser doing this much? or your corporate environment? I do about 1 GB per week. of
data per week on average,why transport to Europe and back paying transit costs in the process,
My point was those transit costs are paid already, in fact, in this era, we ("we" being the folks who have bought the fat pipes) pay for more bandwidth than we can use at the moment. I am suggesting that in the absence of hard data about regional traffic flows (and I've been looking for this data for several years), we are just speculating that regional interconnectivity is urgent (or even needed). when
we should otherwise work to develop our Regional interconnectivity. It's like saying some years earlier on, that we do not need a locl exchange point like KIXP,
It just seems like its the same argument, its not. because
it's cheaper to send traffic out and back.
but it wasn't cheaper at that point. Keep local traffic, "Local". Simple. We cannot keep talking
about regional intergration
sure we can.
when such a small matter as inter-regional connectivity cannot be sorted out.
It's not a small matter, believe me, I've tried to implement it.
While, we still have a lot of content hosted, and accessed out there it should never be lost on us that we similarly have a lot of inter-Regional traffic,
I would greatly appreciate any hard data you have on this traffic. -- Cheers, McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel