[88491] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Middle Eastern Exchange Points
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Tue Feb 7 16:12:14 2006
In-Reply-To: <a06230907c00eab2b550d@[192.168.8.212]>
Cc: "Howard C. Berkowitz" <hcb@gettcomm.com>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 13:11:44 -0800
To: Martin Hannigan <hannigan@renesys.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 7-Feb-2006, at 11:54, Martin Hannigan wrote:
>> I know of a Cairo IXP, and possibly one in the UAE. Is there one
>> in Kuwait as yet?
>
> Yes, KIX. Note, there's CIX and CRIX. If you are trying to
> reach African users, there's also KIX ala Kenya.
The exchange point in Nairobi is called KIXP, not KIX, in case it
helps avoid that confusion. The KIXP is The Place to reach Kenyan
users, but no ISPs from parts of Africa outside Kenya participate in
it, as far as I know. <http://www.kixp.net/>.
Terrestrial paths between adjacent African countries are still
somewhat rare. I don't have science to back this up, but I would not
be surprised if the toplogical centre of today's African Internet
turned out to be the LINX.
Joe
