Re: Tanzanian ISPs move closer to establishing an Internet exchange

[Brian Candler <B.Candler at pobox.com>]

On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 02:44:52AM -0700, Brian Longwe wrote:
> Having said that, here in Kenya 8 of the top ISPs have gotten together and
> formed a consortium that is going to aggregate banbdwidth requirements and
> operate a satellite gateway for delivery of transit services to the
> members as well as any other ISP requiring transit with a CIR and real
> SLA.

That sounds extremely interesting, and I think it would be really good to
write up how you achieved it (politically more than technically) as a model
for use elsewhere. Is the consortium operated as a non-profit or as a
company? Who actually runs and maintains the equipment - in the event of a
service failure, who jumps to fix it? What's the decision-making process for
allocating chunks of bandwidth to providers and upgrading it, and how is the
unused segment paid for? Does the consortium have its own employees,
independent of any individual ISP?

I think the structure has to be right so that all ISPs get treated on equal
terms and one ISP cannot exert excessive leverage over other ISPs - and
there are clearly big incentives to get this right. Good work you guys.

Cheers,

Alt-Brian.

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