On Fri, Oct 2, 2015 at 6:52 PM, S Moonesamy <sm+mu_at_elandsys.com> wrote:
> 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.
[logan_at_logan ~]$ ping 72.21.221.118
PING 72.21.221.118 (72.21.221.118) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 72.21.221.118: icmp_seq=1 ttl=58 time=325 ms
64 bytes from 72.21.221.118: icmp_seq=2 ttl=58 time=315 ms
64 bytes from 72.21.221.118: icmp_seq=3 ttl=58 time=313 ms
64 bytes from 72.21.221.118: icmp_seq=4 ttl=58 time=314 ms
64 bytes from 72.21.221.118: icmp_seq=5 ttl=58 time=315 ms
Saving around 60 ms on average is always an added benefit. I believe that
Orange can provide around 90-120 ms latency to the US. I saw it on an
Orange business line back in 2007.
> 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.
>
> And ISPs need to fix their network to minimise those latencies :) Why am i
getting 315ms while you're gettin 385 ms ?
> 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.
>
>
At least, we can make it hard for them not to consider Mauritius :)
> Regards,
> S. Moonesamy
>
> 1. http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/index.html
>
Received on Fri Oct 02 2015 - 19:09:45 PST