[186477] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: CDN
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Sat Dec 19 11:27:17 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <24649FE2-CDE8-4791-AEC8-B038D8C4D30C@akcin.net>
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 11:27:12 -0500
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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I do not follow the logic.
If a CDN says they have a gigantic peering node in DC, how does that =
tell you where they put on-net servers?
Wouldn=E2=80=99t it make more sense to put servers on-net in OKC or SLC =
because they do _NOT_ have large peering nodes there? Locality is =
important. Akamai has thousands of nodes in a hundred or so countries. =
While they have a lot of peering, I have trouble thinking their nodes =
are all next to large IXPs. (OK, I know they are not, but let=E2=80=99s =
not get into that.) Plus this seems very US/EU centric. What about =
places without a lot large IXPs, like South America, Africa, South-East =
Asia, etc.?
Finally, your logic seems a bit self-contradictory: =E2=80=9CThey =
won=E2=80=99t tell you where their big network nodes are. But if you =
look in this free, public database, you can find their big network =
nodes."
--=20
TTFN,
patrick
> On Dec 19, 2015, at 11:16 AM, Mehmet Akcin <mehmet@akcin.net> wrote:
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> I don=E2=80=99t think anyone really would tell where their critical =
network assets are but obviously you can guesstimate by looking where =
they have connection points available.
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>> On Dec 19, 2015, at 8:13 AM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net> =
wrote:
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>> PeeringDB will tell you where they connect. I do not think anyone =
puts stuff into PeeringDB when they have on-net nodes.
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>> In general, only the big three (Akamai, Netflix, Google) have =
significant deployments inside eyeball networks. Exceptions to every =
rule and all that, but if you pick random large eyeball network, chances =
are very, very high they have no one other than those three - if they =
have any at all.
>>=20
>> --=20
>> TTFN,
>> patrick
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>>> On Dec 19, 2015, at 10:35 AM, Mehmet Akcin <mehmet@akcin.net> wrote:
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>>> looking at peeringdb -- http://www.peeringdb.com/view.php?asn=3D16509 =
might
>>> give you an idea where they are.
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>>> mehmet
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>>> On Sat, Dec 19, 2015 at 6:53 AM, Ahmed Munaf =
<ahmed.dalaali@hrins.net>
>>> wrote:
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>>>> Dear All,
>>>>=20
>>>> Does anyone know if AWS amazon =E2=80=9Ccloudfront=E2=80=9D, cloud =
flare, Microsoft =E2=80=A6 etc,
>>>> hosting their servers on other party providers?
>>>> just like what GGC and Akamai do by hosting their servers on other =
ISP=E2=80=99s
>>>> datacenter!
>>>>=20
>>>> Regards,
>>>>=20
>>>>=20
>>=20
