Re: Shortest path to the world

2009-07-16 Thread Sean Donelan
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Leo Bicknell wrote: Quite frankly, your question reminds me a bit of the geography question where is the center of the US. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_center_of_the_contiguous_United_States While nifty trivia, it acutally has no useful value for well, anything.

Re: Shortest path to the world

2009-07-16 Thread Michiel Klaver
Sean Donelan wrote: The typical network architecture problem, what are the best (shortest latency, greatest bandwidth, etc) locations to connect to the every nation in the world? As you increase the number of locations, how do the choices change? If you only had small (2 3 5 7 11)

Re: Shortest path to the world

2009-07-16 Thread Martin Hannigan
On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 4:14 AM, Michiel Klaver mich...@klaver.it wrote: Sean Donelan wrote: The typical network architecture problem, what are the best (shortest latency, greatest bandwidth, etc) locations to connect to the every nation in the world? As you increase the number of

Re: Shortest path to the world

2009-07-16 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 02:07:12AM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote: Unless you were Federal Express, and wanted to understand where the center of your service area was to help pick better airport hub locations. Add in some offsets for time zones, weather, and even more

Re: Shortest path to the world

2009-07-16 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:03:56 +0900, Randy Bush said: The typical network architecture problem, what are the best (shortest latency, greatest bandwidth, etc) locations to connect to the every nation in the world? As you increase the number of locations, how do the choices change? And

Re: Shortest path to the world

2009-07-15 Thread Jeroen Massar
Sean Donelan wrote: The typical network architecture problem, what are the best (shortest latency, greatest bandwidth, etc) locations to connect to the every nation in the world? As you increase the number of locations, how do the choices change? If you only had small (2 3 5 7 11) number of

Re: Shortest path to the world

2009-07-15 Thread Randy Bush
The typical network architecture problem, what are the best (shortest latency, greatest bandwidth, etc) locations to connect to the every nation in the world? As you increase the number of locations, how do the choices change? If you only had small (2 3 5 7 11) number of locations,

Re: Shortest path to the world

2009-07-15 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Jul 15, 2009, at 5:07 AM, Sean Donelan wrote: The typical network architecture problem, what are the best (shortest latency, greatest bandwidth, etc) locations to connect to the every nation in the world? As you increase the number of locations, how do the choices change? If you only

Re: Shortest path to the world

2009-07-15 Thread Sean Donelan
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009, Randy Bush wrote: The typical network architecture problem, what are the best (shortest latency, greatest bandwidth, etc) locations to connect to the every nation in the world? As you increase the number of locations, how do the choices change? If you only had small (2 3 5

Re: Shortest path to the world

2009-07-15 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:39:05PM -0400, Sean Donelan wrote: As I said in the original message, every nation in the world. Or more specifically the largest number of IP endpoints reachable in the most nations from the locations chosen. A = the few locations you pick