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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/Aug/15 16:43,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jaberamatogoro@gmail.com">jaberamatogoro@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br>
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<div>Hello Michuki,</div>
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<div>Thank you for sharing. 80% locally accessed is something
that we can achieve by 2020. As it has been discussed in the
mailing list, the challenge of local traffic is partly due to
lack of data center to host our local services.</div>
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<div>Just as an example, Staff and students in my university may
prefer to use gmail/yahoo/Hotmail for mailing services and
NOT university email account due to availability and
reliability challenges. It is a normal story to find the mail
service is down for two to three days.</div>
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And we cannot under-estimate the significance of both of these
points.<br>
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Data centre space is probably the most central issue plaguing the
shift of African traffic away from Europe and into our favour. The
big content names migrated from their home in North America to
Europe and Asia-Pac because of the availability of professional,
well-run carrier-neutral data centres in those regions. Without
that, the move would not have been made. There will be one or two
crying "Chicken or egg", but it's simple physics - until they make
routers, switches or servers that can operate in the rain, network
operators will want four walls and a ceiling to put them in.<br>
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There is a reason why the push for these big names to make the final
trek down to Africa is long, long over-due.<br>
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Mark.<br>
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