[128458] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Google wants your Internet to be faster
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Reese)
Mon Aug 9 14:24:27 2010
Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 14:23:46 -0400
From: Reese <reese@inkworkswell.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <82lj8fn3vu.fsf@mid.bfk.de>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 09 Aug 10 12:32 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * 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.
Hmmm. "If it plays in [insert name of locale in Africa]" will not have
the same ring as "Peoria." For the older genset anyway. Maybe if it
rhymes? Spoken to a musical backdrop? The current crop of youts will
not hesitate once.
> The Verizon is probably just a private peering agreement, and someone
> misinterpreted that (or deliberately misrepresented it).
Or it was supposed to be a secret. G was still denying any sort of
agreement with V, last I heard.
Reese
