Most countries in Africa do not implement great big firewalls. Our problems are quite different :-\...

I know Caida has one paper on the congestion on Africa's IXPs substrate. However, we did find Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa have better transnational performance than China, while the performance of Ghana and Egypt was worse than China, at least that's what we saw from the web4africa VPSes we brought.

We've seen somewhat similar behaviour from these networks when peering outside of China

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?

Best,
Pengxiong Zhu
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
University of California, Riverside

On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 12:17 AM Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu> wrote:

On 3/Mar/20 00:57, Tom Paseka via NANOG wrote:

>
> Prices are set artificially high, so their interconnection partners
> wont purchase enough capacity. additionally, the three don't
> purchase enough to cover demand for their own network. Results in
> congestion.

We've seen somewhat similar behaviour from these networks when peering
outside of China, perhaps, to influence the flow of money and traffic.

We have zero patience for such things.

Mark.