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| | > When you choose dynamic mirroring, there's a cost issue
> (example 3 in Brian's message). How much will it cost to an
> institution to put that in place? It's true that it is a
> solution to be considered in some cases....
The cost of having infrastructure at two (or more) sites is about what you would expect. Hardware costs are roughly 2x; systems administration expertise must... |
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1. Big governments that believe spectrum is scarce and should be regulated and auctioned to highest bidders
2. A short list of big service providers can operate under such
conditions
3. Assuming demand is from a large number of customers divided by a small number of service providers it is not surprising that the technical solutions... |
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| | It would be good if we could agree on a few details.
1. The "poor" seem to cover a range of peoples. Some are so desperately poor that any kind of direct ownership, or even use, of ICT is impossible.
2. Simply because "ownership or direct use" of ICT is not relevant for a certain class of poor does not mean that the introduction of such technology into the proximate... |
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| | This text was written (by me) for the web site of one of my former employers.
Emerging markets: Large opportunities
Some important features of less-developed, emerging countries include large populations, availability of international investment capital for worthwhile infrastructure projects, and broad recognition of telecommunications as highly leveraged and enabling. These...
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| | > This would results in three very productive effects for
> Africa (1) the local traffic will be maintained local and
> will be develop (reduction of the costs), (2) the traffic
> towards African service providers would increase, which can
> bring a negotiation in cost reduction for the international
> band-width
This is a key insight. Any service which attracts traffic towards... |
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| | In response to the following article:
> It appears that the cartel is starting to fall apart.
> This could be excellent news for the spread of ICT
> and Telecommunications throughout Africa.
I would not get your hopes up too... |
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| | > What are the exacts differences between IXP and Interconnection?
> Is there possibly interconnection without establishing and IXP?
> Is there possibily an IXP without the provision of interconnection?
The terms are ambiguous, but, in the context of this discussion could be defined as follows:
1. "Interconnection" refers to any relatively direct connection between... |
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| | > In addition, the in-land countries having always been deprived of
> coastal access for fishing and transport, now are deprived of access
> to the fibre optic cables that follow the African coast.
The important point you make is the "having always been" part. Undersea fibre optic resources are no different than having access to fishing or billions of gallons of seawater;... |
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| | It would be great if regulators (and everyone else) would understand how VPN technology changes everything. It is no longer possible to determine if bits are voice, or data, or pornography, or political speech, or financial transactions, or music, or television, are long distance, local, international, or whatever. Any kind of regulatory structures that make these distinctions (usually in the interest... |
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| | It is important to understand the basic economic motivation for any kind of traffic exchange relationship (peering, transit, etc.) and that is to save money.
Simply put, two carriers who have customers that send traffic back and forth between each other in large quantity will often decide that a special “private” circuit between them will save money for both sides.
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| | > What are the exacts differences between IXP and Interconnection?
> Is there possibly interconnection without establishing and IXP?
> Is there possibily an IXP without the provision of interconnection?
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The terms are ambiguous, but, in the context of this discussion could be defined as follows:
1. "Interconnection" refers to any relatively direct connection between... |
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| | This just in:
It's nice to note that the Indian govt. is smart enough to realize that thanks to encryption it's impossible to regulate "VOIP" or much else for that matter. So, they get right to point and try to put a stop to the source of the trouble: VPNs. What a concept.
As a resident of one of the... |
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PRESS INFORMATION BUREAU
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
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ISP LICENSING CONDITIONS AMENDED TO PERMIT VPN SERVICES
New Delhi, Kartika 19, 1926
November 10, 2004
The Department of Telecommunications today decided to extend the scope of the Licence conditions of Internet Service Providers (ISP) ,thereby allowing them to provide... |
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| | ISP LICENSING CONDITIONS AMENDED TO PERMIT SMTP
New Delhi, Kartika 19, 1926
November 15, 2004
The Department of Telecommunications today decided to extend the scope of the Licence conditions of Internet Service Providers (ISP), thereby allowing them to provide SMTP services to corporates and individuals.
In accordance with the decision, the ISP licences (both -Licence... |
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| | My friend Aanu Adepoju from Nigeria writes:
This your last mail got me thinking seriously about something that has been around and has been a large cash-cow for a while, and I have not paid any attention to whatsoever. Call termination.
How does it work, in your words. I have this really vague idea abt the whole thing. That calls to public phone systems across the world are passed over IP/internet,...
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| | It's pretty simple and in fact the business has gotten simpler (as the economics have gotten less interesting). In a nutshell it's the same thing for telcos as "peering" in the ISP world.
- I have a customer who is making a call.
- You have access to the customer who my customer is trying to call.
- We make a deal.
Simple really. There are interesting "complications". Such as,... |
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