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We have contemplated a POP in Kenya. We will get there. Johannesburg should be less than 200ms, so let me see if I can improve that... I would expect about 100ms.


JHB to Europe is generally round the 190ms mark. 170 if you're closer to the undersea cables. No way you're going to drop that to 100ms.


JHB is much further away from Europe than Kenya, though.

JHB means usually going to Cape Town first, then up the west coast of the continent, wheras Mombassa uses SeaCom, going around the east of the continent. That saves a lot of time from a pure distance perspective alone.


>JHB is much further away from Europe than Kenya, though.

Indeed. I was responding to a comment that was discussing JHB though.

SA traffic is split - some of it goes round east (Seacom), some west (SAT3). Ends up being roughly 200ms east or west.

Source: Got my interwebs over said cables for years


Who is talking about Europe? This is about reaching Kenya. It should actually be ~60-70ms.




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