Building the Local Exchange of Content in Africa
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For the Internet Society (ISOC), the goal is 80/20 by 2020 in Africa.
Eighty percent local traffic, twenty percent expensive transit to Europe, that is. The ISOC is aiming to promote the creation and exchange of more local traffic, cutting out the expensive transit. This was one of the big messages from the ISOC’s African Peering and Interconnection Forum (AfPIF), which took place in Tanzania (Sept. 2016).