[128454] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google wants your Internet to be faster
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Mon Aug 9 12:32:37 2010
To: Graham Beneke <graham@apolix.co.za>
From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 16:32:21 +0000
In-Reply-To: <4C5FC6E8.3090303@apolix.co.za> (Graham Beneke's message of "Mon\,
09 Aug 2010 11\:14\:16 +0200")
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
* Graham Beneke:
> 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.
They certainly have got infrastructure all over the globe.
The Verizon is probably just a private peering agreement, and someone
misinterpreted that (or deliberately misrepresented it).
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