Peering Simulation Game extends reach

Hi Bill,

Sorry about the delay in responding – your message was filtered out by my spam filter.

It was great to meet you in Nairobi last week – at last!

I have long been an admirer of your work, and have read many of your papers.

I was first introduced to your Peering Game by Andrew McLaughlin at an AfNOG meeting, either in Kampala in 2003 or Accra in 2001, IIRC.

We made use of it in the AfrISPA IXP training, which was most active in the 2004-2006 period. You already have a link to it on your website.

This one, #3: http://afix.afrispa.org/technicaltraining/T8/T8_presentation.ppt

Ø I didn't think it was going to be possible for others to work it.

We trained our trainers (some 40 in all, for both courses, in English, French and Portuguese), and they managed fine ;-)

I have made a slightly modified version of the game, which I will check for errors, and then send to you. I noticed during the Nairobi session that I had left out the initial 1 square per ISP, which resulted in me getting slightly different results to those you had on the screen.

Attached is the other spreadsheet that I mentioned. I'm not sure what its provenance is, but Alan Levin found it for our AfrISPA training. I'm fairly sure that we didn't create the original. Alan? The shaded cells are those in which one should make changes. The four scenarios represent different alternatives of with whom one is peering. Note that the "Large" category is inappropriate for the African context, and even the "Medium" category is inappropriate for most African countries.

I remember back when IS (SA's largest ISP) cracked the 1 Gbps international traffic mark! Now, lots of ISPs in SA have that sort of capacity, with some having 10 Gbps or more on SEACOM, for example.

All the AfrISPA training material can be found here for the 2 day Technical course: -

http://afix.afrispa.org/technicaltraining/

and here for the half day Decision Maker's course: -

http://afix.afrispa.org/decisionmakers/

This includes not only the spreadsheets, but also the handouts, presentations and trainer's notes.

Feel free to make use of this material, with appropriate attribution. It was used in over 20 African Countries, to great effect. It would be good to mention that on your website ;-) Some (18) of the countries (during the currency of the CATIA project) are: -

The IXP training has also been provided in a few countries since the end of the CATIA programme in 2006, but I'm not sure which ones. Didier Kasole should know.

BTW, the other series of courses that we gave were on setting up ISP Associations, about which you can find some details on this site:

http://www.enispa.afrispa.org/

These Workshops were held in 20 countries during CATIA, and a couple since. Neither site is recently maintained, but that will hopefully change soon. Eric is busy! I have sent you a request to link up on LinkedIn, under separate cover.

All the best. Keep in touch.

Kind regards,

William Stucke

 

 

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