[99494] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: New TransPacific Cable Projects:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Mon Sep 24 10:04:46 2007
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 21:47:06 +0800
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <000101c7fea6$8d5df600$05000200@family>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
[michael dillon]
> And the other cable, which Google is involved in, is connecting
> the USA and Australia, a country that has always had connectivity
> issues, especially pricing issues. This has led to a much higher
> use of web proxies in Australia to reduce international traffic
> levels and this may be the key to why, Google, an application
> developer and ASP/SaaS operator, is trying to build a cable link
> to the major English language market in Asia-Pacific.
Correcting:
Google's in Sydney.
Australians don't use web proxies, even though (sans google) they
still save ~30% byte hit rates to decent size populations.
Web proxies can be taught to cache stuff like updates and flash
media (think "youtube"); and no amount of intercontinental bandwidth
can fix the current issues AU ISPs face - throwing bandwidth
between their aggregation point and the DSL DSLAMs in exchanges.
Try again!
Adrian
