Re: Google wants your Internet to be faster

[Reese <reese () inkworkswell com>]

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