[Afpif] Transit vs. peering Focust for Africa by 2021

Mark Tinka mark.tinka at seacom.mu
Thu Aug 6 14:11:49 UTC 2015



On 6/Aug/15 15:47, Anibe Onuche wrote:

> Hello all. > > 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.

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.

This is what migrated traffic away from North America into Europe, and
from North America into the Asia Pacific.

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.


> 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.

You touch on a very important point, and that is data centre co-location.

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).

ISP facilities are neither carrier-neutral nor designed for co-lo services.


> 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.

I think the issue of "generating" local content, while noble, is not a
solution.

Users want what they want, and these days, it's the usual suspects I
need not burden all of you with naming.

The real question is whether that popular content is coming from within
or outside Africa.

Mark.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.afpif.org/pipermail/afpif/attachments/20150806/0b0176dc/attachment.html>


More information about the Afpif mailing list