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

[Daniel Harrison]

<joke>I prefer to think of them as guidelines, rather than rules.</joke>

-Daniel

On 4 March 2011 08:36, Phillip Grasso <phillip.grasso at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 3:11 PM, McDonald Richards <macca at vocus.com.au>
> wrote:
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>> 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....
>>
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> <joke> Thanks, we in the Google network team work hard in breaking laws of
> physics</joke>
>
>>
>> Macca
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>> On 3/03/11 3:06 PM, "Grant Moritz" <grant at valkyrieit.net.au> wrote:
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>> > 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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