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Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai
From: Brandon Martin <lists.nanog () monmotha net>
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2019 11:48:38 -0500
On 12/8/19 10:58 AM, Jared Mauch wrote:
I guess what I'm getting at is that it sounds like, if you cannot source the content locally to the peering link, there's not likely to be an internal connection to the same site from somewhere else within the Akamai network to deliver that content and, instead, the target network should expect it to come in over the "public Internet" via some other connection. Is that accurate?Not all content is suitable in all locations based on the physical security or market situation. We have some content that can not be served, an example is locations where there are licensing requirements (eg: ICP for China). You will see a different mix from our 20940 vs 16625 as well. Those have different requirements on the security side. If you treat your PKI data seriously you will appreciate what is done here. In Marquette Michigan there will be different opportunities compared with Amsterdam or Ashburn as well. Our customers and traffic mix makes it challenging to serve from a platform where you do capital planning for several year depreciation cycle. We have thousands of unique sites and that scale is quite different from serving on a few distinct IXPs and transit providers. So yes you will see a difference and there are things we can do to improve it when there is a variance in the behavior.
Thanks for the clarifications. -- Brandon Martin
Current thread:
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai, (continued)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Rod Beck (Dec 07)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Jared Mauch (Dec 07)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Mark Tinka (Dec 07)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Ben Cannon (Dec 08)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Rod Beck (Dec 08)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Owen DeLong (Dec 08)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Rod Beck (Dec 08)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Brandon Martin (Dec 08)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Jared Mauch (Dec 08)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Mehmet Akcin (Dec 08)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Brandon Martin (Dec 08)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Jared Mauch (Dec 08)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Rod Beck (Dec 08)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Niels Bakker (Dec 08)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Mark Tinka (Dec 09)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Mike Hammett (Dec 09)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Chris Adams (Dec 08)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Mark Delany (Dec 08)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Eric Kuhnke (Dec 07)
- Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai Jared Mauch (Dec 07)