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Two customers in the same country on the same network does not make any sense technically or financially but two customers on same network but different countries I would imagine maybe due to financial reasons since I believe there are very few alternatives.<BR>
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-----Original Message-----<BR>
From: Mark Tinka [mailto:mark.tinka@seacom.mu] <BR>
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 9:20 AM<BR>
To: Ishmael Mulli (KE)<BR>
Cc: Andrew Alston; <a href="mailto:afnog@afnog.org">afnog@afnog.org</a><BR>
Subject: Re: [afnog] How to convince providers to take the sane option....<BR>
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On Wednesday, May 14, 2014 08:08:10 AM Ishmael Mulli (KE)<BR>
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> I agree with your idea, I believe this policy of placing greater <BR>
> significance to external links worked when we didn't have significant <BR>
> local content or even IXPs to carry this traffic and have not <BR>
> evolved fast enough to accommodate these changes.<BR>
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Yes, but also putting the exchange point argument aside, there are now several African service providers who are able to provide low-latency connectivity for their customers between neighboring African countries as a normal part of the IP operations.<BR>
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But even then, there is still a lot of inconsistent routing where traffic between two customers on the same network located in the same or neighboring African country getting switched in Europe due to intentional traffic engineering that prefers to route that traffic off-continent rather than on-continent.<BR>
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Mark.<BR>
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