Hi Logan,
At 10:40 02-10-2015, Loganaden Velvindron wrote:
>Obviously, MIU has been talking about the bandwidth problem, and the
>need for the local content well before that ! I will include that in
>the next podcast :)
You could also add it on your blog if you are going to write about
the ideas which you get from here. :-)
>Yep. Latency to the US is one of the huge factors, aside from
>bandwidth. The other factors are also price of setting up and
>running a datacenter in a tropical island like ours.
This is the ping output to a host at Amazon in the United States:
PING 72.21.221.118 (72.21.221.118): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 72.21.221.118: icmp_seq=0 ttl=55 time=388.041 ms
64 bytes from 72.21.221.118: icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=390.723 ms
64 bytes from 72.21.221.118: icmp_seq=2 ttl=55 time=377.319 ms
64 bytes from 72.21.221.118: icmp_seq=3 ttl=55 time=383.233 ms
64 bytes from 72.21.221.118: icmp_seq=4 ttl=55 time=383.976 ms
--- 72.21.221.118 ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/std-dev = 377.319/384.658/390.723/4.607 ms
The latency cannot be reduced that much for it not to be a
significant factor. The reason is that it is not possible to
increase the speed of the packets. It is also not possible to reduce
the distance between the island and the United States.
You also mentioned "increasing bandwidth so that companies like
Google, Amazon can set up datacenters here". I am not sure whether
that would make much of a difference [1]. In a message which you
sent on 9 February, you mentioned that Google does not have any plans
to come to the tropical island.
Regards,
S. Moonesamy
1.
http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/index.html
Received on Fri Oct 02 2015 - 18:56:48 PST