<div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 23 Aug 2021, 21:13 Owen DeLong, <<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com">owen@delong.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Aug 22, 2021, at 10:59 , Noah <<a href="mailto:noah@neo.co.tz" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">noah@neo.co.tz</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 22 Aug 2021, 20:28 Owen DeLong, <<a href="mailto:owen@delong.com" rel="noreferrer noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">owen@delong.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">Akamai has a lot of presence in Africa.<div><br></div><div>They do not have a membership in AFRINIC.</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">That is fine...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div><br></div><div>Hurricane Electric has significant presence in AFRICA and Latin America</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div dir="auto">There are more for instance Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Cloudflare, Netflix, LimeLight and other similar Internet services providers.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div><br></div><div>To the best of my knowledge, they do not have any resources from LACNIC or AFRINIC.</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">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.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Noah</div></div>
</div></blockquote></div><br><div><br></div><div>OK, so you agree with me. That’s great.</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Ofcourse, but I expected you to mention your company Cloud Innovation as well.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Strangely though, Cloud Innovation did not cross your mind.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div><br></div><div>Let’s move on.</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Not so fast. I am trying to make sense of the 1.8 billion claim or the 50 million, if indeed that is CIL valuation in comparison to major players in this continent.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I am struggling to place your company Cloud Innovation in the group of real cloud service providers who span multiple RIR like Google, Amazon, Microsoft or even the likes of Digital Ocean, Linode etc.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Would you be in a position to elaborate more about your company Cloud Innovation since it also lacks a known ASN like the global ISPs and CSPs I mentioned earlier?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheers,</div><div dir="auto">Noah</div></div>