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AWS are launching a region in South Africa in "early 2020" https://aws.amazon.com/local/africa/ https://aws.amazon.com/local/africa/ Azure also has pair of DC

AWS are launching a region in South Africa in "early 2020" https://aws.amazon.com/local/africa/ https://aws.amazon.com/local/africa/ Azure also has pair of DCs in South Africa https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/global-infrastructure/southafrica/ https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/global-infrastructure/sout... but clearly the nortern parts of the continent will need more coverage. I wonder what the continental fibre infrastructure looks like. Does most of the traffic go via a handful of choke points on the way out of Africa, and would traffic from Kenya to Nigeria (for example) go via somewhere like South Africa, despite the extra length of distance involved?

coob 7y ago
Yes, there's basically no overland links in South Sudan / DRC: http://www.itu.int/itu-d/tnd-map-public/ http://www.itu.int/itu-d/tnd-map-public/
- toyg 7y ago
  Wonder what the story is with Uganda, they seem to have a better backbone than their neighbours despite being landlocked.
  - ewheeler 7y ago
    Uganda is home to a large regional hub for UN logistics, a state-of-the-art CDC infectious disease laboratory, and similar outposts--presumably due to Uganda's relative stability over the past few decades and strategic proximity to several less-stable neighbors.
- 9nGQluzmnq3M 7y ago
  That's unsurprising, as both are essentially failed states.
  - ganoushoreilly 7y ago
    As well as on the ITAR list.
jonbaer 7y ago
Akamai map for context, https://www.akamai.com/us/en/resources/visualizing-akamai/media-delivery-map.jsp https://www.akamai.com/us/en/resources/visualizing-akamai/me...
bobthepanda 7y ago
I found this map: https://afterfibre.nsrc.org/ https://afterfibre.nsrc.org/ There's distinct hubs in West Africa, Southern Africa, and East Africa, but a lack of intercontinental terrestrial connections (there's almost a link across the Sahara, nothing live directly connecting East and West Africa). From what I can tell, Chad, DRC, and CAR are all not really politically stable, so I don't know how realistic cables running across those countries is.

coob 7y ago

Yes, there's basically no overland links in South Sudan / DRC: http://www.itu.int/itu-d/tnd-map-public/ http://www.itu.int/itu-d/tnd-map-public/

toyg 7y ago
Wonder what the story is with Uganda, they seem to have a better backbone than their neighbours despite being landlocked.
- ewheeler 7y ago
  Uganda is home to a large regional hub for UN logistics, a state-of-the-art CDC infectious disease laboratory, and similar outposts--presumably due to Uganda's relative stability over the past few decades and strategic proximity to several less-stable neighbors.
9nGQluzmnq3M 7y ago
That's unsurprising, as both are essentially failed states.
- ganoushoreilly 7y ago
  As well as on the ITAR list.

jonbaer 7y ago

Akamai map for context, https://www.akamai.com/us/en/resources/visualizing-akamai/media-delivery-map.jsp https://www.akamai.com/us/en/resources/visualizing-akamai/me...

bobthepanda 7y ago

I found this map: https://afterfibre.nsrc.org/ https://afterfibre.nsrc.org/ There's distinct hubs in West Africa, Southern Africa, and East Africa, but a lack of intercontinental terrestrial connections (there's almost a link across the Sahara, nothing live directly connecting East and West Africa). From what I can tell, Chad, DRC, and CAR are all not really politically stable, so I don't know how realistic cables running across those countries is.