[AusNOG] Amazon: And the winner is (not) Sydney

[McDonald Richards]

PING www.l.google.com (66.102.11.104): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 66.102.11.104: icmp_seq=0 ttl=59 time=1.326 ms
^C

1ms to Singapore and back would indicate they have some pretty fscking
awesome network kit which is capable of breaking what we understood to be
'laws' of physics....


Macca



On 3/03/11 3:06 PM, "Grant Moritz" <grant at valkyrieit.net.au> wrote:

> Last I heard the nearest Google cache farm was in Singapore although google
> searching this I can't find anything to directly support that.
> 
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:12 AM, James Troy <james.troy at intralot.com.au>wrote:
> 
>> I was under the impression that there was a google cache server in the PPC1
>> australian landing point. Perhaps I could be wrong, that was just the
>> impression that i have had for a long time.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:
>> ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Andrew Fort
>> Sent: Thursday, 3 March 2011 10:33 AM
>> To: Alastair Waddell
>> Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net
>> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Amazon: And the winner is (not) Sydney
>> 
>> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Alastair Waddell
>> <awaddell at legion.com.au> wrote:
>>> AWS new region - any insiders know if the long wait for an Aus region
>> might end soon?
>>> 
>>> 
>> http://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2011/03/02/announcing-asia-pacific-
>> tokyo-region/
>>> 
>> 
>> The back-of-envelope cost/benefit analysis says "a very long time".
>> Think of the number of users in Tokyo, or within peering range of
>> Tokyo.  Now consider, for example, how long it took Google to install
>> just some cache machines in Australia.  Either of those companies will
>> probably have a datacentre on the moon before they install one in
>> Australia.  As Vijay said, you don't click on ads, do you?  :-)
>> 
>> When someone makes me eat my words, please serve them with moon-cake.
>> 
>> -a
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