Re: ATTN : African IXP Interconnecting ..

[Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>]

    > If only we would get local government permission to connect Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya via fiber optic then that would
    > already save vsat. Also Nigeria should be able to connect to south africa via the fiber already there in the ocean. Then
    > only  vsat connection would be needed, one to hook easy africa to sa and we are done.
    > We could even hook up Rwanda as we are operator there as well.

Yup, I spoke with the director of MTN's ISP operations in South Africa
about this while I was there for Internet Week and the AfriNIC meeting.  I
think everybody's in agreement about what needs to happen, and I think
many or most people are viewing MTN as being the best-positioned party to
get to multiple exchanges first, and begin carrying international traffic.

                                -Bill



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