TANZANIA PEERING COMMUNITY
Peer at Tanzania's largest Internet Exchange through TISPA. TIX offers direct acess to over 100+ network ports, serving more than 6 regions in the country. Peering at TIX is completely free-no cross-connect membership, or port fees.
Over 30+ networks peerring that the various internet exhage points operated by TISPA accross the United republic of Tanzania
The trafic accross the various Internet exchange points accross Tanzania is trending at more that 100Gbps.
From Dar-es-salaam, Dodoma, Arusha, Mwanza, Mbeya and Zanzibar we operate IXP's to keep local internet traffic local.
More than 100+ ports are available accross the switch fabrics combined with each switch having enough ports.
TIX aims to provide a local facility to the exchange of internet traffic. This is usually best done by an independent body like an Industry association. We did and do encourage ISPs in Tanzania to connect their networks with each other and transfer traffic more directly.
This will offer new and better routing possibilities, make the surfing of local websites enjoyable and give new opportunities for local content and local business. Last but not least it will also save hard cash for international satellite links.
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IPV6 at TIX
After receiving our IPv6 PI address space assignment from AfriNIC on July 11, 2007, we started implementing it and now peers at TIX can interconnect using IPv6 addressing. On the TIX switching fabric we use the 2001:43f8::/64 network. Our IPv6 enabled route servers are reachable at address 2001:43f8::1/64 and 2001:43f8::2/64 .
Peers wishing to use this should set their Ethernet interface connected to the TIX switch to 2001:43f8::x/64 where x is the hexadecimal expression of the number of the current last octet of the IPv4 addess. If your IPv4 address was 196.223.5.28 your IPv6 address is 2001:43f8::1c/64 (28 is 1c in hex).
Also please refer to the (Cisco) IPv6 sample config Also please refer to our videos on why you should deploy IPv6 IPv6 Videos
AS112 at TIX
The project AS112 is a loosely coordiated distributed effort to clean up some traffic. Reverse DNS queries for addresses in rfc1918 address space are invalid, but unfortunately end up too often at the DNS root servers. Different places around the net do announce name servers (in AS112) to answer the queries, preferably close to the source.
We have created one instance at TIX and it is advertised to all peers with source AS of 112. Thus connected ISPs send those packets to the server at TIX and they get answered there instead of transiting international links.