Colo in Africa

Tue Jul 16 15:30:51 UTC 2019

The cloud isn't always the right decision for the end customer. In many cases, it's the worst decision. 

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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 

Midwest Internet Exchange 

The Brothers WISP 

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From: "Akshay Kumar via NANOG" <nanog at nanog.org> 
To: "Ken Gilmour" <ken.gilmour at gmail.com> 
Cc: "North Group" <nanog at nanog.org> 
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2019 9:55:12 AM 
Subject: Re: Colo in Africa 

The 2nd requirement seems artificial. The new hypervisors have come a long way and the overhead is minimal. Also you can run bare metal instances in AWS if you really need them with 100Gbps. 

Just just use the South Africa AWS region. 

On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 3:35 PM Ken Gilmour < ken.gilmour at gmail.com > wrote: 

Hi Folks, 

I work for a Security Analytics org and we're looking to build a small POP in Africa. I am pretty clueless about the region so I was wondering if you could help guide me in the right direction for research? 

The challenges: 

    1. Network needs to be able to receive millions of small PPS (as opposed to serving smaller numbers of larger files). 
    2. Can't be cloud (need bare metal servers / colo). We use the full capacity of each server, all the time. 
    3. Must have good connectivity to most of the rest of Africa 
    4. We can initially only have one POP 

This is not like a normal website that we can just host on "any old provider", the requirements are very different. 

Is there a good location where we could either rent bare metal servers (something like Internap - preferred) or colocate servers within Africa that can serve most of the region? 

"Good" is defined as an area with stable connectivity and power, no legal restrictions on things like encryption, and good latency (sub 100ms) to the rest of Africa. 

Our two closest POPs are in Singapore and The Netherlands, so I'd like something closer to the middle that can serve the rest of Africa. Middle East will be deployed after Africa. 

I hope this is the right place to ask. 

Thanks! 

Ken 

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