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One would expect with the use of a terrestial fibre rather than a geo-stationary satellite that the minimum RTT woud be reduced form from >=40ms to 200-300ms as seen from the US. Also the reduced congestion enabled by tye the higher spee speed links should make the average RTT more stabe stable and reduce the packet loss. Below are show the average RTTs and lesses losses from SLAC on the West Coast of the US and to various hosts on the East Coast of Africa.
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According to the BBC report five institutions are already benefiting from the faster speeds - national electricity company Tanesco, communications company, TTCL, Tanzania Railways and the Universities of Dar es Salaam and Dodoma. we also heard from Alem who was visiting Kenyata University from Ethiopia for a one day conefernce conference that "You can get conected connected and download data like what you can do in Europe."
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