Tech guys, this is basic routing 101, skip down to the heading “Conclusion”. Non Tech people, you will get a headache reading this, so take two aspirin and read-on. This is something you need to know. A few years ago, the carriers in Australia ganged up on Telstra and said “Hey – who put [...]
In 1994, AS CEO of Australia’s fastest growing ISP, I insisted that we install W3c cache servers at each dial-in pop around Australia. And we cached the “J” server from Palo Alto to our Portland Oregon offices and then replicated that in Sydney. All DNS queries on the Ausnet network stayed in Australia [...]
In December last year, I predicted to a leading copyright body that by April 2009, 30% of P2P would be invisible.It’s about to get a whole lot worse.The latest IETF Draft to hit the streets details P2P caching as a primary function of edge cache servers similar to Akamai.Some of us have known about this [...]