Guys, the TIXP is up! Regards,
Mark Tinka - CCNA Network Engineer, Africa Online Uganda -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Longwe Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 9:51 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: Announcement - Tz IXP trial startup (fwd) FYI ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 02:08:58 -0400 From: S Woodside <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fwd: Announcement - Tz IXP trial startup Tanzania gets an Internet exchange! Perhaps it can be connected with the pioneering KIXP to form the first intra-african exchange???!! simon Begin forwarded message: > "David J.A. Sawe" wrote: > > Hello colleagues, > > It is a pleasure to announce to you that Tanzania's first Internet > Exchange Point (Tz IXP) is in the process of starting trial runs.� > Some seven ISPs > have come together to kick off this process and are all at various > stages of > hooking up to the system.� The Tz ISP Association members (TISPA) as > well as > the Tz Communications Commission (TCC) have earned our deep respect, > great > thanks, and sincerest praise and congratulations for having come > together to > make possible this startup. > > We had scheduled an informal meeting yesterday afternoon to sort out > the technical details for initiating the system.� We came to hold that > meeting > in the shadow of close memories of our late colleague Hassan Versi (of > Quality Computers), who had very directly contributed towards this > initiative, being very active even up to Monday, his final day among > us. > Sadly, Hassan never had the opportunity to visit the premises to see > the > results for himself and was buried later on during yesterday > afternoon.� But > he was very much in our hearts, minds and conversations as we visited > the > roof of Telephone House while inspecting the equipment and connectivity > arrangements for Tanzania's very first IXP. > > Please find attached photos of the IXP system that were taken last > weekend by our Kenyan brother Brian Longwe who was in Dar es Salaam > for a couple of > days.� One shows the entrance to the premises (13th floor of Telephone > House) with engineers setting up kit in the foreground.� And the other > shows > the rack-mounted startup kit with (left to right) Frank Habicht, Bill > Sangiwa, Bill Woodcock and Harry Hare.� Looking carefully at this > photo, you > can also see a bit of the overhead ducting plus our traffic monitor > (from > Sun Microsystems), then our route reflector (dual Cisco 1700 Routers), > and > below them our 24-port switch (also Cisco) awaiting ISPs to connect > their > cables to it. > > To conclude, I'm privileged to have this opportunity to congratulate > www.raha.com for becoming the very first Tanzanian ISP to have hooked > up to the IXP, while looking forward to congratulate each of the > remaining six > initial ISPs as they connect during the coming few days.� Many of us > are > happy to see this progress being made, in keeping with our Government's > newly published ICT Policy (available at www.moct.go.tz/ict).� To > quote the > Chinese I-Ching (#8): "Holding together brings good fortune"! > > Regards, > David Sawe. > > If you do not want to receive emails from eThinkTankTz, then please > send a blank email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > � > � > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > - > - > ����������������������� Name: TIXP premises.jpg > �� TIXP premises.jpg��� Type: JPEG Image (image/jpeg) > ������������������� Encoding: base64 > > ��������������������������� Name: TIXP rack startup.jpg > �� TIXP rack startup.jpg��� Type: JPEG Image (image/jpeg) > ����������������������� Encoding: base64 > -- www.simonwoodside.com -- 99% Devil, 1% Angel ----- This is the afnog mailing list, managed by Majordomo 1.94.5 To send a message to this list, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] To send a request to majordomo, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put your request in the body of the message (i.e use "help" for help) This list is maintained by [EMAIL PROTECTED]
