The article that pointed me to the datacentermap.com link has crunched the numbers and painted a very disturbing picture:

"Mapping Africa's Datacenters":
http://subsaharska.maneno.org/eng/articles/tkn1246051335/

This link below is also quite interesting. KENIC/KIXP ppl on the list, what's your take on it?

"Why IPv4 Screwed sub-Saharan Africa":
http://subsaharska.maneno.org/eng/articles/ckg1256042642/

saidi

PS I swear if I had a million dollars as spare change I'd buy myself the Silicon Systems container, just for how it looks.

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Evans Ikua <ikua.evans@gmail.com> wrote:
What worries me more is the data centre map.
http://www.datacentermap.com/

What exactly is happening in Africa? You mean in Kenya we don't even
have Tier 2 data centers?

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 6:24 AM, saidimu apale <saidimu@gmail.com> wrote:
> Somebody please install one of these in Nairobi (I hear Google has something
> in the works).
> http://www.datacentermap.com/blog/datacenter-container-55.html
> Saidi
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