Miguel A.L. Paraz sez:
Hello,
Gopi K Garge wrote:
IMHO, in the context of the AP region, I guess we are overlooking the user perspective - locally available "Internet" content. Barring .au, .sg, .kr, .hk (?), .jp and .tw, I do not see any major effort around to provide locally, content that is available in the US be it the GNU archive, the WU archive or one-of-those Beatles song and lyrics archive - result - good amount of traffic to the US.
With limited bandwidth, updating these archives would be slow, and, you wouldn't know yet if there are enough people accessing these to justify getting a mirror.
Oh ... I have complete details on how many hits some of these servers get from my domain and who in my domain are originating requests. getting these details is a matter of some dedicated hardware and a one time programming effort - the rest is - thanks to ethernet technology.
Caching should help getting commonly requested information faster.
Sure ... but you'd notice that these are mechanisms to control your traffic across a low bandwidth link, but that's not the issue. The issue is where will the link that we have terminate.
When one sees such traffic trends, why would an ISP even think in terms of investing in a link to a place other than the US - the cost permitting ?
In the long term, as the Internet becomes more common, regional content will become more important, IMHO. So develop the local content - and the local infrastructure - and regional intranets, and virtual private networks - will come in.
When ?? I feel it is long overdue. If we are to "attract" intra AP region bandwidth investment - as in getting ISPs to interconnect within the region, there must be an effort to provide content. The ISPs may then have a case (not a strong one though) to interconnect locally. How do we do this ? I know that this is not a trivial question, but ...... --Gopi