[17203] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Great Exchange
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Wed May 27 17:02:25 1998
Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 13:49:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com>
To: "'nanog@merit.edu'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19980527153304.19585@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
On Wed, 27 May 1998, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
> On another point, it's worth noting that, _currently_, all the "good"
> servers are somewhere else... but this won't be the case forever.
Especially not if you define "good" servers as those most frequently
accessed because you can set up a Squid cache at the local exchange point
and if every ISP connected to the local exchange point runs a cache using
yours as a parent then the "good" servers miraculously become local
servers.
The Australians have considerable experience at doing just that including
preloading their parent caches, using cheaper one-way satellite bandwidth
to load the caches (skycache.com anyone?) and setting up a national
backbone between exchange points so that the exchange point caches can all
have sibling relationships over a controlled network infrastructure. The
folks at http://www.auix.net/ can tell you more, and if you would sign up
for the NANOG meeting in Dearborn you could talk to Andrew Khoo
andrew@aussie.net and find out more.
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Michael Dillon - Internet & ISP Consulting
Memra Communications Inc. - E-mail: michael@memra.com
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