East Africa Fibre Connectivity- Heads up

Sun Aug 16 09:06:36 UTC 2009

On 5 Aug 2009, at 11:13, Raymond Macharia wrote:

> Hello all,in the last two weeks or so providers in East Africa,  
> particularly
> in Kenya where I am, have been moving from Satellite to Fibre for the
> internet Back bone connectivity. From where I am I have seen an  
> upsurge of
> about 100Mbps in the last two days from my users.

Hi, Raymond --

We see similar changes to traffic in the internet exchange world when  
someone changes their connection from 1GE to 10GE.  Before they turn  
up additional sessions, they often peer more traffic, which I  
attribute to sliding window doing its thing, and eventually user  
behaviour altering.

It's encouraging that your customers' internet performance experiences  
are improving - do share your upgrade stories with other providers in  
your region !

Best wishes,
Andy