small correction, this issue surfaced 2 years ago on afnoc http://www.afnog.org/afnog2008/conference/talks/Google-AFNOG-presentation- public.pdf
it was then blogged by eric hershman http://whiteafrican.com/2008/07/04/google-kenya-and-the-google-global-cache/ and posted to the uixp mailinglist by yours truly on the 26th of august. if you are a (small) isp and didnt do anything yet, perhaps the time for thinking is over. -- rgds, Reinier Battenberg Director Mountbatten Ltd. +256 758 801 749 www.mountbatten.net On Saturday 14 August 2010 20:30:57 Mark Tinka wrote: > On Saturday, August 14, 2010 09:34:43 am Muwonge Ronald > > wrote: > > Then they should pay MTN and UTL for the bandwidth if > > they need us to use the facility.By the way rumors say > > that's the only reason stopping this "money involved" > > ;-). > > When this issue initially surfaced several weeks back, I did > mention that neither UTL nor MTN had the incentive to make > this GGC freely available. > > That said, even though Google say the GGC should be > universally available within the country, regardless of the > host, they also did mention that models where some kind of > compensation for the GGC's availability, in other regions, > were developed by local interests. > > If UTL and MTN think it is unrealistic for them to make the > GGC freely available, then propose a method they might find > reasonable - Google moving the GGC elsewhere being absent. > > > Secondly,though hosted in Ug territory these nodes don't > > have "local content" but cuts on Googles costs for > > requests sent to their Google Modular Data Centers > > (beating the IX's objective remember?) I understand MTN > > and UTL business wise but technically lets test the > > thing as they finalize the money thing putting in mind > > the content isn't local people ;-) > > The GGC is meant to bring Google content closer to the user. > The benefits are mutual. > > Mark. _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
