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Current Future Status of National Regional
Internet Exchange Points in Africa
  • Reducing costs and speeding up content delivery

NAPLA2003, Buenos Aires, Argentina 21st August
2003
2
Introduction
  • Brian Longwe
  • General Manager, AfrISPA
  • Chief Technology Officer, ISPKenya
  • Senior Technical Analyst, PCH
  • brian_at_pure-id.com

3
Status of IXPs/NAPs in Africa
  • South Africa JINX - est. 1997
  • Zimbabwe ZIX - est. 1999
  • Kenya KIXP - est. Feb. 2002
  • Mozambique MOZ-IX - est. May 2002
  • Egypt EG-IX - est. May 2002
  • Kinshasa, DRC KINIX - est. December 2002
    Uganda UIXP est. June 2003
  • Tanzania TIXP- est. June2003
  • Nigeria IBIX - est. April 2003

4
Status of IXPs/NAPs in Africa
Out of 53 countries in Africa only 9 have
national IXPs
AfrISPAs African Internet Exchange Task Force -
AFIX-TF aims to facilitate the establishment of
up to 30 IXPs over the next 3 years
?
5
Case Study KIXP
  • KIXP online 14th February 2002
  • Initially four ISPs were exchanging traffic
  • Currently ten are exchanging traffic
  • SwiftGlobal
  • Kenyaweb
  • ISPKenya
  • UUNET Kenya
  • Interconnect
  • Wananchi Online
  • AccessKenya
  • Nairobinet
  • Mitsuminet
  • Insight Kenya

6
Case Study KIXP
Quality of service and exchange of domestic
Kenyan IP traffic
7
Case Study KIXP
Difference between international and domestic
leased line prices in Kenya. December 2000
8
IXPs Things to Do
  • Any Peering/IX initiative involves 10 technical
    work
  • The remaining 90 is relationships
    (socio-political engineering)
  • Official regulatory support
  • Definition of internal peering policy framework

9
Regional Internet Exchange Justifications
  • Most African countries exchange Internet traffic
    via countries in the West (and Asia)
  • African ISPs must purchase transit to African
    destinations via US/European/Asian ISPs
  • This equates to an exportation of capital to
    developed nations at the expense of developing
    countries

10
Regional Internet Exchange Justifications
Share of backbone connections to countries with
less than 5 ISPs Source OECD via Netcraft
11
Regional Internet Exchange Justifications
  • Independent Research shows that Africa loses over
    US400 Million/yr for telecommunications traffic
    exchange via other continents
  • The least developed continent in the world
  • paying the most developed for internal
    communications?
  • This does not make sense!

12
Regional Internet Exchange Justifications
  • A strong, domestic Internet industry creates
    high-paying knowledge worker positions
  • Domestic traffic exchange reduces the importation
    of foreign content and cultural values, in favor
    of domestic content authoring and publishing

13
Regional Internet Exchange Strategy
  • Establishment of National Internet Exchange
    Points
  • Create opportunities for the emergence of
    Regional Carriers facilitating regional
    peering/continental transit
  • Promote the development of cross-border links and
    inter-country infrastructure

14
Critical Factors for Regional IXPs/Regional
Carriers
  • National Exchanges
  • Political Support
  • Policy Reform
  • Regulatory Provisioning
  • Regional Cooperation
  • Strategic Partnerships
  • Existence of Critical Infrastructure
  • DIGITAL ARTERIES

15
SAT-2, SAT-3/WASC/SAFE, SEA-ME-WE, ATLANTIS 2,
FLAG
Source CTiA Report 2002/03
Current African Submarine Fibre Connectivity
Mostly Perimeter
16
Planned Intra-Country Fibre COMTEL
Source CTiA Report 2002/03
17
Planned Intra-Country Fibre SRII
Source CTiA Report 2002/03
18
Planned Intra-Country Fibre EADTP
Source CTiA Report 2002/03
19
Current Initiatives
  • AfrISPAs AFIX-TF
  • 30 IXPs over next 3 years
  • Connectivity Africas RXP Project
  • Proof of Concept Regional Exchange Point
  • Pan African Virtual Internet Exchange - PAVIX
  • East African Marine Fiber
  • Optical linkage between Durban and Djibouti

20
Thank You!
  • http//www.afrispa.org
  • http//www.catia.ws
  • http//www.connectivityafrica.org
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