Comments on: Local Web Cache Lessons: Uganda

By: Three months » root

Three months » root — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 21:41:27 +0000

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By: What should Google be doing in Africa? | memeburn

What should Google be doing in Africa? | memeburn — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 07:59:23 +0000

[…] health workers and traders. Their Google Global Cache has sped up the internet by upwards of 300 percent for some countries.Regarding what they should be doing better, differently or new in Africa, these […]

By: What Should Google Do in Africa? — WhiteAfrican

What Should Google Do in Africa? — WhiteAfrican — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 06:21:18 +0000

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By: The Google Global Cache hits Kenya — WhiteAfrican

The Google Global Cache hits Kenya — WhiteAfrican — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 07:51:20 +0000

[…] January I wrote about the way the Google Global Cache is affecting Uganda – how local web caching is completely changing the internet user experience for that country. […]

By: McTim

McTim — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 09:13:05 +0000

@bernie: AFAIK, AK does have a GGC, but they aren’t sharing it with their peers. As a result, there is a 2nd GGC for KE at KDN, which will be shared by all peers, once a high capacity link from KDN to KIXP is comissioned (this is supposed to be online very shortly).

By: bernie

bernie — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 06:53:02 +0000

Didn’t AccessKenya partner with GGC?

By: Timi

Timi — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 16:48:42 +0000

I'm sorry to mix in technicalities here, but but I don't know of a less intrusive method to inform you that your RSS feed has stopped working. The topic "Tackling Africaâ€s Classified Listings Space" is the latest I saw via the feed when it was still working.

By: maqtim

maqtim — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:50:07 +0000

Hash, got an idea of what the GGC scenario is like with Kenyan ISP’s?

By: McTim

McTim — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 10:47:39 +0000

I am keen to see other peers take advantagge of the awesome free service by Google. However, since it was installed many months ago, it seems that there is a commercial aspect that has prevented others from getting access. I am hoping that we can find out what the terms and conditions are for others to get this traffic via the UIXP, since it is not hosted at the UIXP itself, but rather inside utl’s network.

What is most interesting to me is that while this may be a case of “paid-peering”, I think it is highly unique in that the folk who get the higher amount of traffic in a paid-peering situation normally also get the revenue. In this case, the peers at UIXP want the traffic, so may end up paying for it, despite receiving more traffic than they send to their peer.

By: Simon Vass

Simon Vass — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:38:31 +0000

To add one more clarification in case it is not clear by freely available I mean there are at present no fees for the peers to connect to the GGC.

Simon Vass
Acting Communication Director UIXP