Hi Kizito, This is your lucky day!
There is such a mechanism. It is called the Ugandan Internet Exchange Point. This is a room where all ISPs interconnect. Their homepage is http://uixp.co.ug/ You can see how much traffic they are exchanging here: http://stats.uixp.co.ug/ with the totals here http://stats.uixp.co.ug/peerorder.htm As you can see, there is a steady increase in traffic over the last few months. And with projects like the new URA portal the traffic can only go up. You might think that not all ISPs are mentioned on the statistics page, but some ISPs are using others to connect. For example, SitiCable, Broadband and Roke Telcom use this construction. The satelite providers is a different story. If you are on vSAT, you point your dish at a satelite in space. This satelite will only connect to the Internet somewhere in europe or the states. If you want to go to a server in Uganda, you will have to come back all the way in order to connect. Most hosting providers in Uganda will use SEACOM to get back to uganda now, so it is not as bad as it used to be. I hope that anwsers some of your questions. If you have more, don't hesitate to ask. (and yes, this is all my personal opinion ;-) ) -- rgds, Reinier Battenberg Director Mountbatten Ltd. +256 782 801 749 www.mountbatten.net On Friday 05 February 2010 16:04:34 Kizito Thomas Mayengo wrote: > Good Evening Guys. > Hope by that greeting am have excluded ladies. > I would ask whether there is a way we can have all our local ISPs (by this > I mean even the ones who use satellite but supporting in Uganda) have a > central convergence such that if am in need of a service from a server in > Uganda hosted by a different ISP, I don't have to go the internet then > back to Uganda. To me I think this would reduce alot of resources wasted > in uploading and downloading files to servers in Uganda but with different > ISPs. It has really hurt me today that I had to go through alot to access > a file that is on a server hosted by UTL when am on iWay. Do you think > this is a topic worth presenting to UCC! > > Mayengo Thomas Kizito B. Eng. Telecommunications Engineering > Kampala-Uganda Tel: +256-752602550, +256-782062708 E:mail: > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug %LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
