Re: [nznog] Akamai streaming cluster on APE.
At 04:08 p.m. 31/07/2008, Allard, Simon, VF-NZ wrote:
Keep in mind that Akamai Streaming != Akamai Static content
Not neccessarily. I did a live streaming job just before Christmas 07 for a site in Germany that had Akamai as its back end for both Live and on-demand. We were live for about 10 days. The feed point (ingest) was Sydney (via 2 different ISPs). The closest server was also Sydney from memory. The on-demand we uploaded to Germany each night. Peering used to be a dirty word at Akamai. Their business model/architecure didn't encourage it. So it would have been a "very large customer" (tm) who got it changed. It means on-line.skytv.co.nz will work now. Good work by CallPlus.
On 31 Jul 2008, at 08:37, Richard Naylor wrote:
Peering used to be a dirty word at Akamai.
I don't think that has been the case for some time (at least for the last 5 or 6 years). The first Akamai node in New Zealand was deployed in the Sky Tower just after I left TCL, which would have made it around 1999, in support of cisco Netday (or whatever it was called). Renaissance ran press releases at the time proclaiming that they had persuaded Apple to serve content from within New Zealand, but to the best of my knowledge that was a simple side effect of Akamai's arrival, and Renaissance had absolutely nothing to do with that. Working in PR must be a lot of fun. The node was to go in the Sky Tower specifically so that it could connect directly to the APE (at least, that was part of the plan before I left, but it's entirely likely that I failed to mention that to the people who picked it up after the fact). I have no idea where it lives now. It's good to hear that there's an Akamai node that has an APE view of the network. Joe
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