<div dir="ltr"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Most countries in Africa do not implement great big firewalls. Our problems are quite different :-\...<br clear="all"></blockquote><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><br></div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">I know Caida has one paper on the congestion on Africa's IXPs substrate. However, we did find Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa have better transnational performance than China, while the performance of Ghana and Egypt was worse than China, at least that's what we saw from the web4africa VPSes we brought. </div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">We've seen somewhat similar behaviour from these networks when peering outside of China<br></blockquote><div><br></div><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><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><br>Best,<br>Pengxiong Zhu<br>Department of Computer Science and Engineering<br>University of California, Riverside</div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 12:17 AM Mark Tinka <<a href="mailto:mark.tinka@seacom.mu">mark.tinka@seacom.mu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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On 3/Mar/20 00:57, Tom Paseka via NANOG wrote:<br>
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> Prices are set artificially high, so their interconnection partners<br>
> wont purchase enough capacity. additionally, the three don't<br>
> purchase enough to cover demand for their own network. Results in<br>
> congestion.<br>
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We've seen somewhat similar behaviour from these networks when peering<br>
outside of China, perhaps, to influence the flow of money and traffic.<br>
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We have zero patience for such things.<br>
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Mark.<br>
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