TelstraClear already seems to have an Akamai connection... C:\Users\pid>tracert trailers.apple.com Tracing route to a772.x.akamai.net [203.167.223.235] over a maximum of 30 hops: 1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms switch1.ifm.local [192.168.73.254] 2 1 ms 3 ms 1 ms cs1-e-4-23.acld.clix.net.nz [203.97.89.209] 3 3 ms 3 ms 3 ms 203.97.1.21 4 11 ms 11 ms 11 ms gi-4-0-879.u22.telstraclear.net [218.101.61.142] 5 12 ms 13 ms 12 ms 218.101.61.129 6 59 ms 14 ms 12 ms a12-3-23.u21.tar.telstraclear.net [203.98.23.34] 7 12 ms 12 ms 12 ms ae1-844.ie4.telstraclear.net [218.101.61.117] 8 12 ms 12 ms 11 ms ge-1-2-0-843.ie1.telstraclear.net [218.101.61.10 5] 9 12 ms 12 ms 11 ms a203-167-223-235.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com [ 203.167.223.235] -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Poole [mailto:matt(a)p00le.net] Sent: Thursday, 31 July 2008 3:46 p.m. To: jon.brewer(a)araneo.net.nz Cc: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: [nznog] Akamai streaming cluster on APE. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jonathan Brewer wrote: | Hi Steve, | | As an end user I can't begin to express how happy I am that my Akamai | content will start coming from New Zealand, instead of from Japan via San | Jose. | | Cheers to Callplus! | But only if you're not connecting through TelstraClear. And has Xtra got its peering sorted out yet? ...