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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/Aug/15 18:04, Meoli Kashorda
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<div>Dear all,</div>
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<div>80% local traffic is very ambitious if that means locally
generated content. But if it means hosted in / served from
Africa, then we could achieve that in the next 2 year</div>
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Agree.<br>
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<div> - I am not surprised by the 60% figure. It is possible we
are already at 50% in Kenya because of Google and Akamai caches.
I would like to see the per country figures. Unfortunately, Most
of this traffic is not visible at the IXPs because Google caches
are in different networks and private peering. <br>
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Unlikely.<br>
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I'd say the edge caches you mention account for single-digit
proportions of overall traffic within all African countries. Yes,
the traffic could be significant in the largest of networks, but it
is still a fraction of overall demand.<br>
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There is still a lot of traffic that is not physically available in
Africa. And that is the over 90% we all pay dearly for to go fetch
all the way from Europe. The big names currently in Africa are by no
means the lot; they are just the bold ones.<br>
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<div>However, It is also important to unbundle local Internet
traffic - most of the traffic could be video and YouTube traffic
but the relatively low traffic generated by e-commerce,
egovernment, email or E-learning applications, and local
websites might be what really drives the Internet economy in our
countries. <br>
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I'm not too concerned about what type of traffic will turn the tide,
as long as the source and destination of that traffic remains in
Africa.<br>
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Mark.<br>
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