Has anyone dealt with getting internet connectivity in Ghana? I've been doing a lot of research and saw some peering plans with Nigeria but nothing solid there yet. Currently a financial client of mine is paying quite a bit every quarter on satellite up link fees. Do any of the major carriers have any direct connectivity into Ghana? Thank you,
These cable systems land in Ghana. Look to see who rides those cable systems to see who is at least capable of serving your client. Then you have to figure out how to get from your client to the coast. SAT-3 WACS GLO1 ACE MainOne ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rishi Singh" <rishimusingh@gmail.com> To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 9:40:29 AM Subject: Internet connectivity in Ghana Has anyone dealt with getting internet connectivity in Ghana? I've been doing a lot of research and saw some peering plans with Nigeria but nothing solid there yet. Currently a financial client of mine is paying quite a bit every quarter on satellite up link fees. Do any of the major carriers have any direct connectivity into Ghana? Thank you,
I would recommend PCCW because they own capacity on many these systems and have experience in delivering service. I have contacts I can recommend. - R. ________________________________ From: NANOG <nanog-bounces@nanog.org> on behalf of Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net> Sent: Thursday, June 1, 2017 2:56 PM To: Rishi Singh Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Internet connectivity in Ghana These cable systems land in Ghana. Look to see who rides those cable systems to see who is at least capable of serving your client. Then you have to figure out how to get from your client to the coast. SAT-3 WACS GLO1 ACE MainOne ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rishi Singh" <rishimusingh@gmail.com> To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2017 9:40:29 AM Subject: Internet connectivity in Ghana Has anyone dealt with getting internet connectivity in Ghana? I've been doing a lot of research and saw some peering plans with Nigeria but nothing solid there yet. Currently a financial client of mine is paying quite a bit every quarter on satellite up link fees. Do any of the major carriers have any direct connectivity into Ghana? Thank you,
All of the licensed mobile phone network operators in Ghana are also ISPs and can reach enterprise customers. Within Accra or a few other major coastal cities, either by microwave rooftop/tower based links or their terrestrial fiber. Should definitely be much faster and more economical than satellite. Interestingly if you look at BGP tables and AS-adjacencies for the major Ghanian ISPs and telecoms, it is logically a suburb of London, which is where most of the traffic in the recently built West African submarine cables goes. On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 7:40 AM, Rishi Singh <rishimusingh@gmail.com> wrote:
Has anyone dealt with getting internet connectivity in Ghana? I've been doing a lot of research and saw some peering plans with Nigeria but nothing solid there yet. Currently a financial client of mine is paying quite a bit every quarter on satellite up link fees.
Do any of the major carriers have any direct connectivity into Ghana?
Thank you,
TISparkle/Seabone also has an IP transit PoP in Accra, plus they have a partnership with Dolphin Telecom. On 06/01/2017 05:30 PM, Eric Kuhnke wrote:
All of the licensed mobile phone network operators in Ghana are also ISPs and can reach enterprise customers. Within Accra or a few other major coastal cities, either by microwave rooftop/tower based links or their terrestrial fiber. Should definitely be much faster and more economical than satellite.
Interestingly if you look at BGP tables and AS-adjacencies for the major Ghanian ISPs and telecoms, it is logically a suburb of London, which is where most of the traffic in the recently built West African submarine cables goes.
On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 7:40 AM, Rishi Singh <rishimusingh@gmail.com> wrote:
Has anyone dealt with getting internet connectivity in Ghana? I've been doing a lot of research and saw some peering plans with Nigeria but nothing solid there yet. Currently a financial client of mine is paying quite a bit every quarter on satellite up link fees.
Do any of the major carriers have any direct connectivity into Ghana?
Thank you,
Another good choice for a major international carrier with a pop in Accra would be opentransit/France Telecom. On Jun 4, 2017 6:04 AM, "i3D.net - Martijn Schmidt" <martijnschmidt@i3d.net> wrote:
TISparkle/Seabone also has an IP transit PoP in Accra, plus they have a partnership with Dolphin Telecom.
On 06/01/2017 05:30 PM, Eric Kuhnke wrote:
All of the licensed mobile phone network operators in Ghana are also ISPs and can reach enterprise customers. Within Accra or a few other major coastal cities, either by microwave rooftop/tower based links or their terrestrial fiber. Should definitely be much faster and more economical than satellite.
Interestingly if you look at BGP tables and AS-adjacencies for the major Ghanian ISPs and telecoms, it is logically a suburb of London, which is where most of the traffic in the recently built West African submarine cables goes.
On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 7:40 AM, Rishi Singh <rishimusingh@gmail.com> wrote:
Has anyone dealt with getting internet connectivity in Ghana? I've been doing a lot of research and saw some peering plans with Nigeria but nothing solid there yet. Currently a financial client of mine is paying quite a bit every quarter on satellite up link fees.
Do any of the major carriers have any direct connectivity into Ghana?
Thank you,
I would definitely recommend *Internet Solutions Ghana. <http://www.is.com.gh/> * On 31 May 2017 at 17:40, Rishi Singh <rishimusingh@gmail.com> wrote:
Has anyone dealt with getting internet connectivity in Ghana? I've been doing a lot of research and saw some peering plans with Nigeria but nothing solid there yet. Currently a financial client of mine is paying quite a bit every quarter on satellite up link fees.
Do any of the major carriers have any direct connectivity into Ghana?
Thank you,
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