Dear Harry, COMESA already has a concept paper on the RIXP. Please contact the Director of Information and Networking in COMESA Secretariat Sherin Shoukry on [email protected] for more information. Also visit www.comesa.int and see the progress made in regard to IT. There you will find the reports of the IT technical committees already held. Hope this helps. Esther --- On Wed, 6/2/10, Harry Delano <[email protected]> wrote: From: Harry Delano <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [kictanet] The urgent case for a Regional Internet Exchange Point (RIXP) To: [email protected] Cc: "'KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions'" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, June 2, 2010, 11:17 PM Thanks alot John, Am checking this out... Harry From: John Kariuki [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2010 7:07 AM To: [email protected] Cc: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Subject: Re: [kictanet] The urgent case for a Regional Internet Exchange Point (RIXP) There is a project called "EAC-BIN" under "Connect Africa Initiative". I would suggest you search the two in the web for more details. John Kariuki --- On Wed, 2/6/10, Harry Delano <[email protected]> wrote: From: Harry Delano <[email protected]> Subject: [kictanet] The urgent case for a Regional Internet Exchange Point (RIXP) To: [email protected] Cc: "KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, 2 June, 2010, 20:39 Listers, I have noticed, that while all laudable efforts in speeding up our broadband connectivity to the rest of the world hits top gear, saddeningly regional local interconnectivity lags behind. Why is this so...? For instance reaching a branch office located in Tanzania from their Kenya HQ office,or vice versa means traffic transits out from our cyberspace to some international exchange point somwhere in London, hits the return trip back via some other Link to Dar. This especially affects VOIP connectivity and quality, between interconnected offices, and other services that rely on good QOS. This, especially while we are working on the economic, Social, and perhaps Political intergration of the Comesa block seems to fly in the face of the major milestones that have been achieved in the Telecommunication sectors of the member countries, and I strongly suggest the industry addresses this urgently. We need a Regional Internet Exchange point set up. Perhaps name it COMESA-IXP or something. But one thing is clear; the more we each send traffic destined locally on a roundtrip to Europe or elsewhere and back, means we incur huge transiting costs in the process, which dollars that we export out should be be used to expand and develop our local & Regional interconnection capacity.. I think, this is an issue worth being addressed and I'd be interested to discuss this more with anyone interested to drive this forward. Anyone..? Regards, Harry -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet This message was sent to: [email protected] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/ngethe.kariuki2007%40ya... -----Inline Attachment Follows----- _______________________________________________ kictanet mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/listinfo/kictanet This message was sent to: [email protected] Unsubscribe or change your options at http://lists.kictanet.or.ke/mailman/options/kictanet/esther_wanjau%40yahoo.c...