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

[Phillip Grasso]

On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 3:11 PM, McDonald Richards <macca at vocus.com.au>wrote:

>
> 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....
>
>
<joke> Thanks, we in the Google network team work hard in breaking laws of
physics</joke>


>
> 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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