On Jun 13, 2005, at 6:53 PM, Matt Ghali wrote:
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, william(at)elan.net wrote:
The point is it probably would not be as accurate as one could hope because internet network infrastructure is network-centric and not necessarily region-based. Of course you could try to fully map INET like CAIDA does and keep the info updated on "daily basis", pretty hard work though...
You miss the point; what they have done is decouple the requirement for correlation to a geographical location in optimizing content delivery; the only thing they seem to care about is logical topographical location.
Well, "they" probably look at things like throughput and packloss, as well as logical topology / RTT. But what do I know? :)
As for the 'pretty hard work' part; they seem to be making money off it; how's your gig going?
Not sure that's a fair comparison, since I didn't think William is doing this for money. (William, can you confirm?) Someone offering "less" service, but for "less" (or no) money seems perfectly reasonable. In fact, it's downright nice. But doubt it would be as accurate. (Which is not a slight against William.) -- TTFN, patrick