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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">De :</SPAN></B> Lillian O. Sharpley <lillian@afrinic.net><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">À :</SPAN></B> announce@afrinic.net; africann@afrinic.net; afnog@afnog.org<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Envoyé le :</SPAN></B> Vendredi, 21 Août 2009, 6h21mn 46s<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Objet :</SPAN></B> [AfrICANN-discuss] Root Server Anycast Copy Deployed at TIX<BR></FONT><BR>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond', 'serif'">For Immediate Release Contact: Lillian Sharpley</SPAN></P>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><B><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond', 'serif'">Root Server Anycast Copy Deployed at Tanzania Internet Exchange</SPAN></B></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><A href="http://www.afrinc.net/" target=_blank rel=nofollow><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond', 'serif'">AfriNIC</SPAN></A><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond', 'serif'"> launched its Root Server Anycast Copy Program in Cairo, Egypt, October 2008, with the objective of increasing the number of instances of Anycast copies of root servers in the African region in order to improve the local Internet infrastructure scalability and reliability. Three fundamental reasons have encouraged the distribution of the root servers at many locations around the world.</SPAN></P>
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<LI class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond', 'serif'">Better load management on root servers; </SPAN></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond', 'serif'">Resilience to DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks; and,</SPAN></LI>
<LI class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond', 'serif'">Lower RTT (Round Trip {delay} Time) between clients and servers. </SPAN></LI></OL>
<P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond', 'serif'">When a region or a country loses its international connectivity, access to root servers is preserved by virtue of the local node. This enables the local traffic developed through IXPs and transit points to proceed. In another term, this will allow the local Internet to continue to be able to resolve names and access to local services.</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond', 'serif'">Today, we are pleased to inform you that the first deployment under our program was completed on Wednesday, August 19<SUP>, </SUP>2009 in Dar es Salaam at the <A href="http://www.tix.or.tz/" target=_blank rel=nofollow>Tanzania Internet Exchange</A> (TIX), where a copy of the K root server operated by RIPE NCC is installed and running. “This is another exciting step we are taking to improve Internet service in Tanzania. We want to thank AfriNIC and RIPE NCC for their support in this project” stated Frank Habicht, TIX Manager.</SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond', 'serif'">“This deployment is very critical as it helps to address the issue of “Access” in Tanzania and it is an important milestone towards our objective to contribute more to the Internet infrastructure development in our region. We are looking forward to more deployments of this kind in the coming months” stated Adiel Akplogan, CEO, AfriNIC.</SPAN></P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond', 'serif'">We congratulate TIX for its participation in the AfriNIC Root Server Anycast Copy Program and wish them a great success! Furthermore, we would like to extend special thanks to </SPAN><A href="http://www.ripe.net/" target=_blank rel=nofollow><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond', 'serif'">RIPE NCC</SPAN></A><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond', 'serif'"> who actually carried out the deployment, </SPAN><A href="http://tix.or.tz/tispa/" target=_blank rel=nofollow><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond', 'serif'">Tanzania Internet Service Providers Association (TISPA)</SPAN></A><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond', 'serif'"> for local support, </SPAN><A href="http://www.simbanet.net/" target=_blank rel=nofollow><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond', 'serif'">SimbaNET</SPAN></A><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond', 'serif'"> and <A href="http://www.africaonline.com/" target=_blank
rel=nofollow>Africa Online</A> for the transit provided, and the AfriNIC Project Team.”</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond', 'serif'">Additional information about AfriNIC's Root Server Anycast Copy Program can be found at:</SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoPlainText style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN-GB><A href="http://www.afrinic.net/projects/project_anycast.htm" target=_blank rel=nofollow><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond', 'serif'">http://www.afrinic.net/projects/project_anycast.htm</SPAN></A></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoPlainText style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><SPAN lang=EN-GB style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Garamond', 'serif'">Attached: Press Release in PDF format.</SPAN></P>
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