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

[Michuki Mwangi]

[Adding Patrick Christian from Telegeography, Michael Kende and Karen Rose]

> On Aug 10, 2015, at 9:11 AM, Meoli Kashorda <mkashorda at kenet.or.ke> wrote:
> 
> Dear Mark,
> 
> Thanks for your very detailed responses. This is excellent preparation for AFPIF 2015.
> 
> On the 60% local content, I am the one who misread the note from Michuki (have not read the actual report). It suggests we shall achieve 60% not 80% by 2021.
> 
> 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% of traffic from Kenya. So we have probably achieved 40% local traffic?
> 
> Maybe someone has already done a country by country study?

It could be that Telegeography may have some data around this. Patrick ?

> We at KENET would appreciate a research grant to conduct EA study - anybody generous?
> 

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.

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.

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 :(

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.

> I wonder why most of us are so quiet - maybe we already have anecdotal data on each country represented in this mailing list? And Michuki could compile it for AFPIF 2015 in two weeks?
> 

If the data is available, we can definitely work on having it put together for AfPIF-2015.

Regards,

Michuki.
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