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Building Africa’s digital future
Lessons Learnt from Peering
26 August 2015
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An overview of Liquid Telecom
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Operating companies
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• One Network.• The largest cross-border
single fibre network in Africa – 18,000 km
• Fully redundant routes.• Open-access – the
carriers carrier. • Active connections to 5
sub sea cables.
Where we are
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Peering Points
• We love peering!
• Present at more African IXPs than most
• NAP, JINX and KIXP most significant
• Also present at ZINX, BINX, ZIXP, UIXP,
RINEX and CINX
• We support IXPs and participate in them
actively
• We peer in Europe at LINX, AMSIX, DECIX
• London – strategic hub because of sub sea
cable routes
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Peering Points used by Liquid Telecom Over 5 Years
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Highest Ranked by RenesysPeering Index
• Top 100 Globally
• Highest Ranked in Africa by far
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Challenges of Peering At
Multiple POPs
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Traffic Challenges
• Routing Problems when Peers advertise
different prefixes at each IXP
• uRPF – some Peers need symmetric traffic
flows
• Cross-border Capacity Management
• Issues with CDN routing
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Benefits of Peering
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In Africa Sometimes Elephants take a long time to come to the party
But they enjoy the benefits when they get there
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Latency - Example
Peering Established
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Lessons Learnt Along the Way
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Growth in Intra- African Transit Capacity is Consistently higher than Africa-Europe!
International Bandwidth By Region - Source Telegeography2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
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Percentage Growth2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Africa-Africa 100% 100% 100% 175% 100% 468% 30% 83%Africa -Europe 95% 69% 102% 150% 42% 48% 65% 52% 37%
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Increase in Throughput
• When latency is lowered, throughput increases.
• Local traffic volume increases
Peering Established
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Inbound Traffic Sources
Africa Peering
25%
Other Peering
22%
Africa CDN31%
Transit22%
InboundTraffic
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Peering Vs Transit
Africa Peering
54%
Transit46%
InboundTraffic
Africa Peering
Transit
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Peering+ CDN Vs Transit
Peering + CDN72%
Transit28%
InboundTraffic
Peering + CDN
Transit
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Traffic Balance
• Traffic balancing surprises:
• Difficult Peers do not always have more
traffic to offer!
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Peering Established
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Customers Bypass Peering
• Some customers are using VPN to access
content they are restricted from – so
bypassing peering
• Lack of enforcement on Intellectual Property
Laws - hindrance to those interested in
streaming business
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Thank You,
Peer On …