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On 18/Jul/19 11:04, Denys Fedoryshchenko wrote: > Africa, Russia... > > You can take as example Lebanon. > Capital and major city in tiny country, ~40km away from each other, > and only way you can get 2 points connected over microwaves(due > mountains - several hops), over "licensed"

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Africa, Russia... You can take as example Lebanon. Capital and major city in tiny country, ~40km away from each other, and only way you can get 2 points connected over microwaves(due mountains - several hops), over "licensed" providers, DSP, who hook this points for $10-$30/mbps/month. And

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On 18/Jul/19 00:04, Rod Beck wrote: > Circuits linking Asia & Europe via Siberia have proven highly > unreliable. Repairs are long and difficult. And arguably Russia is a > better case scenario than Africa. More politically stable. Better > finances. Better basic infrastructure.  Wasn't aware

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half of Mark Tinka Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2019 7:16 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Colo in Africa On 17/Jul/19 17:04, Rod Beck wrote: The cross continent connectivity is not going to be particularly reliable. Prone to cuts due to wars and regional turmoil. And imagine how it takes to re

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On 17/Jul/19 17:04, Rod Beck wrote: > The cross continent connectivity is not going to be particularly > reliable. Prone to cuts due to wars and regional turmoil. And imagine > how it takes to repair problems at the physical layer. I think that view is too myopic... you make it sound like

Re: Colo in Africa

:05 AM To: Ken Gilmour ; nanog@nanog.org list Subject: Re: Colo in Africa Without being more specific on what geographic region you want to serve, in terms of ISPs, it's hard to say. For example: If you look at submarine cable topology at layer 1, and BGP sessions, AS adjacencies between ISPs

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Ken,You can have useful information in AFNOG mailing list (af...@afnog.org).--Gregoire Ehoumi-- Original message--From: Ken GilmourDate: Tue, Jul 16, 2019 6:48 PMTo: C. A. Fillekes;Cc: North Group;Subject:Re: Colo in AfricaWhat matters is whether or not we can get a facility in Africa

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Visit https://live.infrapedia.com and you can connect colo owners , capacity owners directly On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 15:34 Ken Gilmour 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

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On 17/Jul/19 02:32, Joel M Snyder wrote: >   > When a lot of people say "Africa," they really mean "South Africa" > (the small country), and there is great connectivity there---but > positioning yourself in South Africa doesn't really help you any more > to get to Ghana (for example) than

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On 17/Jul/19 03:05, Eric Kuhnke wrote: > Without being more specific on what geographic region you want to > serve, in terms of ISPs, it's hard to say. > > For example: > > If you look at submarine cable topology at layer 1, and BGP sessions, > AS adjacencies between ISPs: Freetown, Sierra

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On 17/Jul/19 02:32, Joel M Snyder wrote: >   > When a lot of people say "Africa," they really mean "South Africa" > (the small country), and there is great connectivity there---but > positioning yourself in South Africa doesn't really help you any more > to get to Ghana (for example) than

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On 17/Jul/19 00:57, Sina Owolabi wrote: > If Nigeria is a possible location, you have a few, off the top of my > head is any telco's colo (MTN, Airtel, Glo, or 9Mobile), and there's > RackCentre, MainOne and I think IPNX for colo (virtual and bare > metal). My concern about Nigeria is co-lo

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I feel like I'm arguing with my teenager over why the WiFi is slow.

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But cloud all of the things!! - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: "Seth Mattinen" To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2019 6:45:35 PM Subject: Re: Colo in Africa

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Without being more specific on what geographic region you want to serve, in terms of ISPs, it's hard to say. For example: If you look at submarine cable topology at layer 1, and BGP sessions, AS adjacencies between ISPs: Freetown, Sierra Leone and Monrovia, Liberia are suburbs of London, UK. If

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Ken: >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? Africa is a tough nut to crack. I have been building networks there for clients for decades and the first

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On Tue, 16 Jul 2019 15:54:10 -0600, Ken Gilmour said: > We have a different use case to traditional analytics - We're aimed at > consumers and small businesses, so instead of a SOC with one big screen > refreshing 1 rows of only alert data every 30 seconds, we have > thousands of individuals

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On 7/16/19 4:30 PM, Ken Gilmour wrote: TBs of data is not really that much data on average when  you average it over thousands of customers. The data is summarized, There are a ton of other things happening in the background that I've already explained in the thread and are really irrelevant

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TBs of data is not really that much data on average when you average it over thousands of customers. The data is summarized, There are a ton of other things happening in the background that I've already explained in the thread and are really irrelevant to the task at hand which is finding a

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If Nigeria is a possible location, you have a few, off the top of my head is any telco's colo (MTN, Airtel, Glo, or 9Mobile), and there's RackCentre, MainOne and I think IPNX for colo (virtual and bare metal). On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 11:48 PM Ken Gilmour wrote: > > What matters is whether or not

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What matters is whether or not we can get a facility in Africa to provide service to our customers from Bare Metal Servers :) On Tue, 16 Jul 2019 at 16:07, C. A. Fillekes wrote: > Are they refreshing data they've already got, though? > This is the classic use case for client-side caching. > >

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Are they refreshing data they've already got, though? This is the classic use case for client-side caching. On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 5:56 PM Ken Gilmour wrote: > We have a different use case to traditional analytics - We're aimed at > consumers and small businesses, so instead of a SOC with one

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We have a different use case to traditional analytics - We're aimed at consumers and small businesses, so instead of a SOC with one big screen refreshing 1 rows of only alert data every 30 seconds, we have thousands of individuals refreshing all of their data every 30 seconds because there are

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I suggest you look at the Teraco facilities, specifically the JB1 (Isando) site. It is extremely well connected and carrier-neutral so you can choose who you want to use. Depending on your requirement you might need to work through a reseller. I work for an SP in South Africa, so let me know

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On Tue, 16 Jul 2019 11:13:45 -0700, Seth Mattinen said: > On 7/16/19 10:53 AM, Akshay Kumar via NANOG wrote: > > Then you are "doing it wrong(tm). Good luck. > > > Are you saying that anyone choosing not to use "the cloud" is simply > wrong because "cloud" is always right? No, he's saying that if

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On 7/16/19 10:53 AM, Akshay Kumar via NANOG wrote: Then you are "doing it wrong(tm). Good luck. Are you saying that anyone choosing not to use "the cloud" is simply wrong because "cloud" is always right?

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Then you are "doing it wrong(tm). Good luck. On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 5:40 PM Ken Gilmour wrote: > These are actual real problems we face. thousands of customers load and > reload TBs of data every few seconds on their dashboards. We have busy > servers. We tried cloud. I passionately hate it.

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[ there is an afnog mailing list which you might find useful ] >3. Must have good connectivity to most of the rest of Africa unfortunately, for common values of 'most' this is a long sad tragedy. mark's excellent reccos can get you the fancy bits. inter-connectivity with africa is sad.

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On Tue, 16 Jul 2019 10:39:59 -0600, Ken Gilmour said: > These are actual real problems we face. thousands of customers load and > reload TBs of data every few seconds on their dashboards. If they're reloading TBs of data every few seconds, you really should have been doing summaries during data

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On Tue, 16 Jul 2019 10:11:48 -0600, Ken Gilmour said: > Speed is not the issue, it's IO. Also streaming 100Gbps of video is very > different to streaming 100Gbps of files smaller than 100kb (average of > about 30kb) the issue on the network level is the number of connections and > CPU, on the

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On 16/Jul/19 19:00, Ken Gilmour wrote: > > Our "market" is actually the US - but we're experiencing unexpected > success across the world. A lot of our customers have selected > "Africa" as their region when signing up and they are in various > countries around Africa, they deserve to be

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On 16/Jul/19 18:23, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > > > 100ms from most of the rest of Africa is going to be a bit dubious. If > you draw a line horizontally through Senegal the costal stuff north of > it can mostly be served in under 100ms from Europe. > > While cross border terrestrial fiber exists

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On 16/Jul/19 17:28, Christopher Morrow wrote: > Isn't the OP really asking here (not to have their selection of > platform wrangled..): > "Where should I target my search: ZA only? is there anywhere else > worth dropping my request?" The easiest regions will be East (Kenya) and South (South

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Hi Mark, Our "market" is actually the US - but we're experiencing unexpected success across the world. A lot of our customers have selected "Africa" as their region when signing up and they are in various countries around Africa, they deserve to be served better within their continent at least.

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: Re: Colo in Africa Where, in Africa? It's not a small place...

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On 16/Jul/19 17:08, Akshay Kumar via NANOG wrote: > My bad. They announced that Oct 2018 so I figured they'd be close to > it now. Yeah turns out it's mid 2020 :-( I'd take all targets with a very large grain of salt. Experience has shown that these things always take longer than planned...

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On 16/Jul/19 16:55, Akshay Kumar via NANOG wrote: > 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. That said, there are various providers who can

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On 16/Jul/19 17:01, Phil Lavin wrote: > > They don't have a Region there at present - only an Edge location. I believe > one is in the works for launch next year. You're right (as of my updates from last November). Mark.

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On 16/Jul/19 16:33, Ken Gilmour wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I work for a Security Analytics org and we're looking to build a small > POP in Africa. Where, in Africa? It's not a small place... > 1. Network needs to be able to receive millions of small PPS (as > opposed to serving smaller

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These are actual real problems we face. thousands of customers load and reload TBs of data every few seconds on their dashboards. We have busy servers. We tried cloud. I passionately hate it. We choose to use Bare Metal. On Tue, 16 Jul 2019 at 10:34, Akshay Kumar wrote: > Go look at the actual

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Have you priced F1 solutions? -Ben Cannon CEO 6x7 Networks & 6x7 Telecom, LLC b...@6by7.net > On Jul 16, 2019, at 9:33 AM, Akshay Kumar via NANOG wrote: > > Go look at the actual specifications for one of the metal boxes - you are not > going to come close to

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Go look at the actual specifications for one of the metal boxes - you are not going to come close to maxing anything out with the workload you describe. FSB hasn't been a thing in over a decade. If you really wanted to go crazy you could do some build a custom solution in FPGA on the F1s. It's a

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On 16/07/2019 16:08, Akshay Kumar via NANOG wrote: > My bad. They announced that Oct 2018 so I figured they'd be close to it > now. Yeah turns out it's mid 2020 :-( > > https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-aws-region-in-south-africa/ > Azure does have regions in operation in South

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> On Jul 16, 2019, at 07:33, Ken Gilmour 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

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Speed is not the issue, it's IO. Also streaming 100Gbps of video is very different to streaming 100Gbps of files smaller than 100kb (average of about 30kb) the issue on the network level is the number of connections and CPU, on the server side it's IO and FSB On Tue, 16 Jul 2019 at 08:55, Akshay

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Bingo On Tue, 16 Jul 2019 at 09:30, Christopher Morrow wrote: > Isn't the OP really asking here (not to have their selection of > platform wrangled..): > "Where should I target my search: ZA only? is there anywhere else > worth dropping my request?" > > and: > "Are there likely providers of

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Thanks for all the replies! (really fast!) The requirement for Bare Metal is very specific. Dealing with high speed large files is very different to dealing with high volume small files. We regularly encounter bottlenecks at the FSB and at the IO level. Even things like RAID slows us down, so we

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n Gilmour" Cc: "North Group" 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

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Isn't the OP really asking here (not to have their selection of platform wrangled..): "Where should I target my search: ZA only? is there anywhere else worth dropping my request?" and: "Are there likely providers of solid colo aside from seacom/tinka-net or workonline/ben-net ?" On Tue, Jul

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Thanks for chiming in but his reason for can't be cloud was, "We use the full capacity of each server, all the time." That ain't good reason. They do have baremetal servers like I pointed out. We use them when for cases where we need access to perf counters. On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 4:10 PM Bryan

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My bad. They announced that Oct 2018 so I figured they'd be close to it now. Yeah turns out it's mid 2020 :-( https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/in-the-works-aws-region-in-south-africa/ On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 4:02 PM Chris Knipe wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 4:57 PM Akshay Kumar via

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On 7/16/19 10:55 AM, Akshay Kumar via NANOG wrote: > 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. Well the man wants bare metal, and while there's

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> just use the South Africa AWS region They don't have a Region there at present - only an Edge location. I believe one is in the works for launch next year.

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On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 4:57 PM Akshay Kumar via NANOG wrote: > 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

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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 wrote: > Hi

Colo in Africa

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