On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 2:50 PM, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]> wrote: > Before it is send to a mobile phone, the data has to be retrieved in the > classic way.
As an engineer I do know how the internet works ;) Do you really think that the companies who run mobile network > do not have the expertise to keep a bunch of caching servers in the air ? > When you do, do you think that all these mobile operators do not have that > skill? Do you think they do not have capacity at the key locations of the > Internet infrastructure? That is exactly what I think. > Thanks, > GerardM > > > On 19 October 2013 13:44, Leslie Carr <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Gerard Meijssen >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Hoi, >> > >> > I am not so much interested in what they use. What I would like to >> suggest >> > is that we have partners in both Africa and Asia. They are likely to have >> > the expertise to run a caching centre on our behalf. They provide us a >> > service in bringing Wikipedia at no cost to their customers. When we pay >> > them to run a non-discriminatory caching service, it would increase our >> > service and maybe even the cost of transatlantic traffic. >> > Thanks, >> > GerardM >> > >> >> Running a mobile network is completely different operation from running a >> CDN. >> >> >> -- >> Leslie Carr >> Wikimedia Foundation >> AS 14907, 43821 >> http://as14907.peeringdb.com/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l >> > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l -- Leslie Carr Wikimedia Foundation AS 14907, 43821 http://as14907.peeringdb.com/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
