<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>(Very briefly)</div><div><br></div>IXPs are great, but these days mostly need CDNs as not so much traffic is between ISPs — it seems most consumers are heavy users of FANG-ish site. Maybe sighlty different I guess for business users, but still...<div><br></div><div>Local CDNs have huge value, but need more traffic than most smaller ISPs can muster. That’s where IXPs can shine now, if they somehow get some CDN/cachess. Habari.co.tz has done that for the Arusha IXP they manage. I think that’s what Brian @ CTN is trying to do as well. Over in the Philippines, Rise.ph has done a great job doing this with their Getafix.ph. See <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7113399324490813440/">https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7113399324490813440/</a> for a bit more about them.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> — Jim</div><div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Nov 11, 2023, at 7:57 PM, Dave Taht via Starlink <starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">Africa, and for that matter, rural america, could use more IXPs and</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">CDNs. I have been watching brian's progress here eagerly, but as the</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">info for what he and jim and so many others are attempting to create</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">in Africa has been arriving daily piecemeal,</span></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>