On 15/Mar/20 09:55, Pengxiong Zhu wrote:
> I know Caida has one paper on the congestion on Africa's IXPs substrate. I can't think of a single IXP in Africa that is "congested". Do you have more data? > However, we did find Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa have better > transnational performance than China,... Not having great big firewalls tends to help :-). > while the performance of Ghana and Egypt was worse than China, at > least that's what we saw from the web4africa VPSes we brought. 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. > 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? I know about Chinese operators who will deliberately congest peering ports to influence 3rd party network behaviour. Mark.
