Re: Is the MIXP a white elephant? (was: Mauritius Telecom and Emtel peering at MIXP)

From: Loganaden Velvindron <loganaden_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2015 05:10:48 +0000

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 9:03 PM, Daniel Shaw <daniel_at_afrinic.net> wrote:

>
>
> > In my opinion, there are different objectives here; it is in the
> interest of
>
> You talk about objectives. That is an aim, an purpose, a target, a goal.
> Something in the future to achieve..
>
> > According to the above the MIXP is seeing as much traffic as a user on
> My.T
> > 20M (without FUP) would generate.
>
> .. and yet you focus on measurements over a few weeks or months past.
> Think about a 5 or 10 year plan. Where do you want your local internet
> to be then? Are there a whole number of barriers to achieving Internet
> nirvana? Does the existence of an IXP lower or remove any of those
> barriers at all? Could it help enable businesses, start-ups or access to
> education in the future?
> It might. It might not. But *could* it?
>

I think that due to the lack of co-operation between the different ISPs for
fixing peering, unless an informed customer raises the issue. As Selven
said on another mailing list, the co-operation problems between the
different ISPs is not good at all. In order to make any significant
progress, we would need to force them to co-operate for the benefit of the
wider internet users in Mauritius.

If ISPs do not co-operate presently and work towards a common goal of
fixing their peering problems, then I doubt that it will make much impact
in 5-10 years or even 20 years time.
Received on Sat Oct 24 2015 - 05:11:00 PST