Re: Location of the island (was: Le Web 4.0

From: Loganaden Velvindron <loganaden_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 10:42:51 +0000

On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Sun <s4ndeep1203_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The latency issue is one that we cannot fully solve due to our geographical
> location, and taking into consideration the current technology. Let me take
> for example, 'eSports'. These are competitions based on computer games that
> has already transformed into an industry in NA/China/EU/SEA/RU and Canada
> amongst others. The point here is that there's a lot of money to be made by
> getting into that.
>
> The first prize for 'The International 4' last year was more than 5 Million
> dollars. There are a lot of gamers in Mauritius who are very good, but the
> scene will never get to the professional level if there isn't a professional
> platform. Sadly, the best latency that we can get from Mauritius to gaming
> servers are those hosted in SEA, which is about 80ms in the very best
> conditions(fiber).
>
> I tried to elaborate about how Mauritius is missing out of a potential
> market, which is eSports due to latency issues. There are probably other
> things that would get better if we had better latency.
>

- VOIP would get better for call centers.
- TV on IP would get better.
- Youtube would get better.
Received on Sun Apr 26 2015 - 10:43:03 PST