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

[Meoli Kashorda]

Dear all,

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 - 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. 

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. 

So there is something like qualitatively important traffic for the Internet economy and the high volume traffic that is really important for ISPs sustainability - ISPs sell Internet bundles or Internet bandwidth, the more the better.  International "local" traffic is what is really driving the fiber infrastructure in our countries. 

Let us just grow the Internet in Africa without worrying too much about whose content it is - our young people will use the broadband Internet infrastructure as an innovation platform. Finally what sells is "locally relevant content". 

Meoli Kashorda
KENET




> On Aug 6, 2015, at 5:43 PM, <jaberamatogoro at gmail.com> <jaberamatogoro at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello Michuki,
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Secondly, Unemployment rate is high in some of African countries, yet we still have opportunities to offer the employment for our youth. For example, Since 2008 the Government initiated Internet Exchange Point Projects whereby, the government made a strategic decision to allocate FIVE IXP in five Zones. Since then, the peering and content to some of these IXP has been a challenge. If you read literatures, you find a lot of good stories elsewhere which could be used as an opportunity in most of African Context to benefit our community.
> 
> Thanks for ISOC and other organization that are working on IXP BUT we still have a lot to do to make this dream a reality.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Matogoro J
> Manager - Dodoma Internet Exchange Point
> Tanzania, East Africa
> 
> Sent from Windows Mail
> 
> From: Michuki Mwangi
> Sent: ‎Thursday‎, ‎August‎ ‎6‎, ‎2015 ‎3‎:‎07‎ ‎PM
> To: afpif at afpif.org
> 
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> As you know we have a vision of 80% locally accessed and 20% international Internet traffic by 2020. We recently came across Telegeography's forecast from 2014 - 2021 which puts it at 60%!.
> 
> https://www.telegeography.com/research-services/ip-transit-forecast-service/index.html
> 
> Telegeography will be at AfPIF to speak about the trends in Africa over the last 5 years.
> 
> We would also like to hear your perspectives.
> 
> Thanks and regards,
> 
> Michuki.
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