You don't need to host Akamai boxes and/or rely solely on Akamai's
customers content for an improvement in experience and a decrease in
transit cost. IMHO, the easier way is to simply peer with the various
CDNs. If you peer with Akamai, LimeLight, Google, Yahoo, etc you won't
pay for transit of their content and it will be fast... very fast.
-Matt
Jonathan Schmidt wrote:
Hi, and Happy New Year, all, before I forget....
The Akamai caches content that folks pay them to put on it which includes
stuff like Microsoft updates, Real Player updates and downloads, anti-virus
vendor downloads, etc. It's really great since the latency vanishes and I
note here that I experience downloads of updates of 4 to 5 megabits per
second on the cable modem...a rate that wouldn't be possible even with the
large XP window size with latencies to the original sites.
However, it won't cache most sites since they are often not capable of being
cached without breaking the experience for the user and, besides, Akamai
doesn't care.
It won't cache P2P traffic like BitTorrent or Napster, traffic that is
likely the source of a lot of network load.
It is a completely different animal in a different sphere of operation and,
although valuable, isn't an ad-hoc cache.
. . . j o n a t h a n
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Travis Johnson
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 8:27 AM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] bits per mbps
Hi,
We've had one for almost 5 years now... but there isn't anything to
"play with". They ship you three 1u servers and a Cisco switch. You plug
everything in and turn it on. They do all the admin, config, setup, etc.
and don't allow you access whatsoever.
But it does work great. Microsoft updates come VERY fast (over 10Mbps
speeds) and many other sites are just as fast. However, I have no idea
who to contact, as we were approached by them.
Travis
Microserv
David E. Smith wrote:
George Rogato wrote:
You know Akamai is also an option. As I recall they require you to
have x number of subs and then send you their boxes to be set up on
your network. All free.
Any idea on how many subs you need before this becomes an option? I've
heard that Akamai will do this, and I love having new toys in my NOC
to play with, but I've never been able to find out just how you go
about getting one.
David Smith
MVN.net
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