I attended the November GeekDinner at Adesso in Rondebosch on Thursday night.
Nice evening, good food and a fun group of people at my table. I met Matthew and Frerieke.
We missed our regular sound engineer and MC. We had a projector, but no mic this time, which made it a bit tricky to give a talk since I had a mild cold.
I gave a talk about peering and The Hub Project.. an internet exchange project (starting off) in Cape Town. This was also the first public announcement of the project.
Jonathan asked something like.. if peering is 90% politics, how do you know the project will not fail again? My answer was: well, it’s cheap (close to zero cost).. all the initial peers have a presence in the building already and I’m hoping it will gain momentum from there. Three things I though about later:
- The playing field has changed. Soon we will have more ECNS operators. Soon we will have vendor neutral data centres. Soon we will have many more MetroE and dark fibre connectivity options.. and soon we should have much more traffic flowing around South Africa.
- I’m an optimist. I believe this project is for the common good and it has the “moral high ground”.
- ..not on my watch (-;
Slides are here. I received positive feedback and I hope a few more people will get involved in the project soon.
A big thanks to our hosts: George and Vanessa and our wine sponsor: Perdeberg.
good 2 meet u 2… finally!
Hey Joe. Good to meet you indeed. Thanks for your talk. See you in the pool!
I’d like to punt the project to providers I know, but the web site looks a bit dated. Will the site be updated. When will the peering point start?
Hey Adrian
Yeah.. I need to make some time to update the website.. it’s high up on my todo list.
Hub.org.za in JHB? I’d definately be interested. What are FF’s plans ?
Hi Roelf
Yes, the idea is to have something like jx.hub.org.za also. We have enough IP space from AfriNIC and Teraco will most probably again sponsor hosting. My idea of an ETA was 2nd half of 2009, but maybe we can get something going sooner.
Frogfoot will most probably peer in cpt and jhb and have an open peering policy.