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more on Setting history straight: So, who really did invent the Internet?
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 11:00:45 -0400
Begin forwarded message: Let me add just one thing to this - True, international bandwidth is expensive, and across most landlocked parts of Africa, provided over satellite instead of fiber.However, local internet exchange points such as those in South Africa and Kenya, help optimize local use of traffic, keeping local traffic local and encouraging the growth of local datacenters at ISPs that connect to these exchanges, thus encouraging local people to host content locally instead of
in the USA or elsewhere. They also provide excellent places to host mirrors of popular content, and perhaps an Akamai cluster as well - all ways to ensure that local traffic isn't routed out through expensive international links.http://www.pch.net has an excellent record building ISP community supported
exchange points in several developing countries in Asia and Africa, andthose AFRISPA members that attended the recent AFNOG will have interacted with people from PCH, such as Gaurab Upadhaya, and attended the workshop on
internet exchanges held there.While nobody denies that international bandwidth is expensive, the cure for
that is to do what I mentioned above - encourage a flourishing local internet community. srs ------------------------------------- You are subscribed as lists-ip () insecure org To manage your subscription, go to http://v2.listbox.com/member/?listname=ip Archives at: http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/
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