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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 15/Mar/20 09:55, Pengxiong Zhu
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know Caida has one paper on the congestion on Africa's
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I can't think of a single IXP in Africa that is "congested".<br>
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Do you have more data?<br>
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However, we did find Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa have
better transnational performance than China,...</div>
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Not having great big firewalls tends to help :-).<br>
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while the performance of Ghana and Egypt was worse than
China, at least that's what we saw from the web4africa VPSes
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While I can't speak to the national backbones of Ghana and Egypt, it
would be good to obtain multiple perspectives, just to be sure.<br>
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<div>Sorry I am a bit confused here. What do you mean by
"these networks"? When you say "peering outside of China",
who is peering who exactly?</div>
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I know about Chinese operators who will deliberately congest peering
ports to influence 3rd party network behaviour.<br>
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Mark.<br>
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