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

[Andrew Alston]

What's really truly mind blowing is that at so many conferences, I hear talk about the creation of local content to keep traffic local.   In my view, this is backwards.  The infrastructure is already there to allow huge volumes of traffic to flow locally, but instead of actually properly routing the traffic local and USING that infrastructure, people instead talk about creating MORE content that will somehow cause this to happen.

We can create all the content we like locally on the continent, but until people fix their routing, while the content may be hosted locally, the traffic will still be switched via Europe.

Anyone who doubts there is local content, I might point out that as of 10 minutes ago, I'm looking at traffic graphs that are showing hundreds of megabits a second of traffic flowing between African countries where we HAVE managed to make this work, though it could be a lot higher if the routing was just sane!

Andrew


-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Tinka [mailto:mark.tinka at seacom.mu]
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2014 10:41 AM
To: Ishmael Mulli (KE)
Cc: Andrew Alston; afnog at afnog.org
Subject: Re: [afnog] How to convince providers to take the sane option....

On Wednesday, May 14, 2014 09:31:58 AM Ishmael Mulli (KE)
wrote:

>    putting it that way it actually  does not.

I have to agree with Andrew - we all shout about peering in Africa and keeping local traffic local (or regional traffic regional, as a last resort). But as we've seen, life gets in the way...

We need to drink what we sell.

Mark.

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