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<div>Hi Patrick,</div>
<div>No worries on my end – this is what I had understood that it is not possible with the current data – if you could look into it that would be great. As for IP transit prices, is it for all countries, most, or just the largest?</div>
<div>Please do let us know what your colleague has to say.</div>
<div>Thanks very much,</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Patrick Christian <<a href="mailto:pchristian@telegeography.com">pchristian@telegeography.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Wednesday 12 August 2015 03:11<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Michael Kende <<a href="mailto:kende@isoc.org">kende@isoc.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span>Meoli Kashorda <<a href="mailto:mkashorda@kenet.or.ke">mkashorda@kenet.or.ke</a>>, Michuki Mwangi <<a href="mailto:mwangi@isoc.org">mwangi@isoc.org</a>>, Mark Tinka <<a href="mailto:mark.tinka@seacom.mu">mark.tinka@seacom.mu</a>>,
Nishal Goburdhan <<a href="mailto:nishal@controlfreak.co.za">nishal@controlfreak.co.za</a>>, "<a href="mailto:afpif@afpif.org">afpif@afpif.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:afpif@afpif.org">afpif@afpif.org</a>>, Kennedy Aseda <<a href="mailto:kaseda@kenet.or.ke">kaseda@kenet.or.ke</a>>,
Karen Rose <<a href="mailto:rose@isoc.org">rose@isoc.org</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>Re: [Afpif] Transit vs. peering Focust for Africa by 2021<br>
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<div>Dear Meoli and Michael,</div>
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I hope I haven't misled you. The data we collect from IP backbone providers does not contain the origin/destination of traffic. They provide us with the capacity and public IP traffic rate (link utilization) data of their international links. With our current
data set and survey instrument I don't think what you ask, Michael, would be feasible; however, my colleague was looking into this question a couple of months ago. I'd like to speak with him and then get back to you.
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<div>And Meoli, regarding pricing, we track transport and IP transit prices but primarily Africa to Europe, we do not have much intra-Africa pricing data unfortunately.</div>
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<div>Last, we will be releasing the latest edition of our Global Internet Geography (Internet backbone networks report) in the next week or so. If interested, I can send you a summary of findings.</div>
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<div>On Aug 11, 2015, at 1:44 AM, Michael Kende wrote:</div>
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<div>This is a very interesting discussion, and I also believe both that this data is not available, and that it would be very valuable. Patrick, as you seem to have international traffic between countries in the region and to other regions, what would be
needed to get local traffic by country, and do you think it is feasible? I for one would love to have more information on your current research that you could share.</div>
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<span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Meoli Kashorda <<a href="mailto:mkashorda@kenet.or.ke">mkashorda@kenet.or.ke</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Tuesday 11 August 2015 08:10<br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>Patrick Christian <<a href="mailto:pchristian@telegeography.com">pchristian@telegeography.com</a>><br>
<span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span>Michuki Mwangi <<a href="mailto:mwangi@isoc.org">mwangi@isoc.org</a>>, Mark Tinka <<a href="mailto:mark.tinka@seacom.mu">mark.tinka@seacom.mu</a>>, Nishal Goburdhan <<a href="mailto:nishal@controlfreak.co.za">nishal@controlfreak.co.za</a>>,
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<div>Dear Patrick,</div>
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<div>As you have seen in our discussions, our interest is country you country local traffic compared to global traffic mainly through Europe. We see very low traffic between African countries - traffic follows content! </div>
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<div>I would still be interested in country by country international traffic data and maybe IP transit costs in Africa. </div>
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<div>By the way, peering is NOT free for us in Africa - we have to pay for expensive national leased lines to peering nodes! Sometimes that can be more expensive than peering in Europe! So the picture is complex - is content that is driving our decisions
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<div> We do need local Internet traffic research studies. </div>
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<div>Hi Michuki,</div>
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<div>Our research is done on a country by country and regional basis but unfortunately not at the granularity that you may be looking for--% of traffic served locally. We focus on international/cross-border capacity and traffic based on network data collected
from ISPs/carriers in our annual surveys. We see growth of local traffic in Africa through the increase of intra-regional capacity/traffic (within Africa as a whole) compared to inter-regional growth (Africa to Europe). I've just given away the gist of my
presentation for the conference :) I'm happy to share more details on our research if it helps or interests you.</div>
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<blockquote type="cite">Thanks for your very detailed responses. This is excellent preparation for AFPIF 2015.<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">I have no data to challenge their forecast. But I do have some anecdotal data on Kenya - global CDNs are saving Kenyan operators about 50% of international circuits capacity! And that Google and Akamai caches are serving about 35-40%
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This is interesting and good to know for a number of reasons. It has not been clear if we could find a organization in the region that is interested in engaging in this type of research work.<br>
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IMHO we are lacking on tools and data sources in our region that can be used to progressively monitor the development. The first phase of this work is to ensure that we have the data sources, tools and systems - access to the data in a sustainable long term
manner is just as important as the commissioning the studies.<br>
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There is work underway coordinated by various organizations to try and implement the tools in the region but this needs more collaboration from network operators in hosting tools. For instance giving away Atlas probes is a start, having them deployed on the
network and keeping them on it far more difficult that it should be :(<br>
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I would definitely like to hear what Michael and Karen Rose thoughts are on such a study and not limiting it to EA but the entire region if possible.<br>
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