On 18/Jul/18 16:22, K. Scott Helms wrote:
Mark,
I am glad I don't have your challenges :)
What's the Netflix (or other substantial OTT video provider) situation for direct peers? It's pretty easy and cheap for North American operators to get settlement free peering to Netflix, Amazon, Youtube and others but I don't know what that looks like in Africa.
Peering isn't the problem. Proximity to content is. Netflix, Google, Akamai and a few others have presence in Africa already. So those aren't the problem (although for those currently in Africa, not all of the services they offer globally are available here - just a few). A lot of user traffic is not video streaming, so that's where a lot of work is required. In particular, cloud and gaming operators are the ones causing real pain. All the peering in the world doesn't help if the latency is well over 100ms+. That's what we need to fix. Mark.