[afnog] How to convince providers to take the sane option....

[Mark Tinka]

On Wednesday, May 14, 2014 08:08:10 AM Ishmael Mulli (KE) 
wrote:

> I agree with your idea, I believe this policy of placing
> greater significance to external links worked when we
> didn't have significant local content or even  IXPs to
> carry this traffic  and have not evolved fast enough to
> accommodate these changes.

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.

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.

Mark.
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