[128448] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google wants your Internet to be faster
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Graham Beneke)
Mon Aug 9 05:14:38 2010
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:14:16 +0200
From: Graham Beneke <graham@apolix.co.za>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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On 09/08/2010 07:21, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> I helped install my first Akamai cluster before year 2000 if I remember
> correctly. So it's at least a decade ago :P
What I find funny is that Google has already been running these kinds of
content distribution nodes in Africa for over a year.
It makes a significant difference to the user experience when you
reduced the RTT to the content servers by 200-400ms
--
Graham Beneke
