[109580] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: an over-the-top data center
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Provo)
Mon Dec 1 18:36:39 2008
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 18:36:27 -0500
From: Joe Provo <nanog-post@rsuc.gweep.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <A256E202-4146-48B2-8EEA-845D120E7AD2@kurtis.pp.se>
Reply-To: nanog-post@rsuc.gweep.net
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 08:14:20PM +0100, Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote:
[snip]
> On 1 dec 2008, at 15.08, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
[snip]
> >I don't think any IXP can become a significant player on the
> >Internet today by only attracting participants from the country in
> >question. The Internet is not bound by political borders.
> >(Usually. :)
Despite the huge amount of "content which transcends the language
barrier" [tip of the hat wbn], it is worth noting that there is
a non-trivial amount of language-/culture-specific traffic that
doesn't need or want to traverse globally (viz massive IXes & large
xTTH deplyoments in otherwise 'small' countries). Sometimes that
maps near to the political boundaries.
Joe [by all means, do not take this as a SPoF endorsement]
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