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<< <i>Most content just comes from wherever it happens to be hosted,
and often enough that's somewhere in California. Works great.</i>
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<p>Not so if the client is in Indonesia, or eastern Europe, or Egypt, etc.,
a long or an indirect link over any big cable.
<p>And recently not quite so even in California (when the resulting brownouts
kick in).
<p>John Stevenson
<br>
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<p>Sean Doran wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>| I would expect to see lots of content caching/distribution
going on in the
<br>| transoceanic links such that multimedia traffic probably always gets
<br>| served from the nearest content server.
<p>I wouldn't.
<p>| If that is the case, how is the content getting replicated to these
<br>| different continents? Do the traffic statistics over the transoceanic
<br>| links capture this replication or are these being beamed over satellite?
<p>Some people (Yahoo, CNN, etc.) locate "european-flavour" servers in
Europe,
<br>"cantonese-style" servers in Hong Kong, and so forth. Some
people use
<br>Akamai and their competitors, which seem to be locating stuff in various
<br>places around the world. Most content just comes from wherever
it happens
<br>to be hosted, and often enough that's somewhere in California.
Works great.
<p> Sean.</blockquote>
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