[53920] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Networking in Africa...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Tue Dec 3 00:16:51 2002
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2002 07:13:26 +0200
To: alex@yuriev.com, "John R. Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@att.net.il>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10212021734480.14445-100000@s1.yuriev.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
At 05:36 PM 02-12-02 -0500, alex@yuriev.com wrote:
> > >> fyi, all countries in africa are ip connected. dunno how big your
> > >> hands are, but there are over 50 countries in africa.
> > >
> > >Pardon me for not counting "allocated" addresses as IP connectivity.
> >
> > You're pardoned, but just barely. Try some traceroutes, and you'll
> > find that every country in Africa does indeed have some kind of IP
> > connectivity.
>
>Try finding some IP connectivity while in Nigeria. You would be
>hard-pressed, even if you are willing to pay enormous $$.
http://www.gilat.com/post/GilatinAfrica.pdf
We currently provide 14Mb/sec of upstream commodity Internet access for
Gilat. Most of it is to Nigeria with Congo, Cameroon, Aritrea, Madagascar,
Ghana and Mozambique nicely represented.
-Hank
> > There seem to be a lot of ISPs who get little slices of IP from
> > satellite carriers like emperion.net in Denmark. Much of the 419 spam
> > I get from Nigeria, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, and other west African
> > countries originates in cybercafes with satellite links.
>
>Correction... *very* *few* satellite links.
>
>
>Alex
