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On 6/Aug/15 15:47, Anibe Onuche wrote:<br>
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<span style="white-space: pre;">> Hello all.
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> 80% locally accessing would mean a lot of work.
> Most content meant for the local internet ecosystem are hosted outside the shores of the country :-( .
> Local traffic is been imported into the country.
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I think what Africa needs is not only a return of its content into
the continent, but also for non-African content to come quicker into
Africa.<br>
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This is what migrated traffic away from North America into Europe,
and from North America into the Asia Pacific.<br>
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The global content is every bit as important as the local content,
especially when that global content forms a greater part of the % of
traffic hitting users in Africa.<br>
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<span style="white-space: pre;">> I am of the opinion that African IXPs should work in tandem with organizations ( e.g ISOC ) , Government and stakeholders to host content locally with the ISPs.
> ISPs should come together and form alliances where the challenges of the industries are looked into with a view of reducing such challenges and obstacles.
> The resultant effect to local content can be rewarding to the local IXP , ISPs and Government.
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You touch on a very important point, and that is data centre
co-location.<br>
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One of the many reasons we are not seeing growth in local content
concentration (and in effect, localization of traffic) is because
there aren't any carrier-neutral data centres in Africa to host that
content (yes, a few here and there, but the situation is a lot dire
than that).<br>
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ISP facilities are neither carrier-neutral nor designed for co-lo
services.<br>
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<span style="white-space: pre;">> It would be nice to generate local traffic rather that getting such from the global internet.
> Possibly then, we might start exporting such local traffic outside.
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I think the issue of "generating" local content, while noble, is not
a solution.<br>
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Users want what they want, and these days, it's the usual suspects I
need not burden all of you with naming.<br>
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The real question is whether that popular content is coming from
within or outside Africa.<br>
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Mark.<br>
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