[Community-Discuss] USE of (ARIN, RIPE, APNIC) ADDRESS SPACE IN AFRICA

[Owen DeLong]

> On Aug 22, 2021, at 10:59 , Noah <noah at neo.co.tz> wrote:

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> On Sun, 22 Aug 2021, 20:28 Owen DeLong, <owen at delong.com <mailto:owen at delong.com>> wrote:

> Akamai has a lot of presence in Africa.

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> They do not have a membership in AFRINIC.

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> That is fine...

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> Hurricane Electric has significant presence in AFRICA and Latin America

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> There are more for instance Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Cloudflare, Netflix, LimeLight and other similar Internet services providers.

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> Guess what, back at home in the ARIN service region, the above hyper scalers and CDN have extensive Internet Infrastructure which is serving Americans and Europeans before they venture and expand out to scale their local networks into global infrastructure and tap into more markets in Africa and Latin America etc.

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> To the best of my knowledge, they do not have any resources from LACNIC or AFRINIC.

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> That is perfectly fine. My employer has an extensive network in Europe to connect us back to Africa where we extensively operate and yet we are not RIPE resource members.

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> Noah



OK, so you agree with me. That’s great.

Let’s move on.

Owen

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