Re: [nznog] Akamai streaming cluster on APE.
Message: 18 Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:37:36 +1200 From: Richard Naylor <richard.naylor(a)r2.co.nz> Subject: Re: [nznog] Akamai streaming cluster on APE. To: "Allard, Simon, VF-NZ" <Simon.Allard(a)vodafone.com>, "Bill Walker" <Bill.Walker(a)staff.snap.net.nz>, <nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Message-ID: <20080731123754.0F3DD7D82D3(a)angus.iconz.co.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
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.
hmm... try telling that to Patrick Gilmore, the peering coordinator for akamai - one of the most vocal peering guys in europe. how long ago was it that peering was a dirty word for akamai? Anton
hmm... try telling that to Patrick Gilmore, the peering coordinator for akamai - one of the most vocal peering guys in europe.
how long ago was it that peering was a dirty word for akamai?
We peer with Akamai in the US and Japan as well as running various clusters on our own network - they, like most content networks peer quicker than a thirsty Australian runs for a beer. In the US/Europe/Japan they seem to run clusters in their own right, but elsewhere in the costly bandwidth nations (ie. all of us in the Pacific RIM) they tend to give the clusters to us all then make us pay to fill the caches. MMC -- Matthew Moyle-Croft Internode/Agile Peering and Core Networks Level 4, 150 Grenfell Street, Adelaide, SA 5000 Australia Email: mmc(a)internode.com.au Web: http://www.on.net
Anton Smith wrote:
Richard Naylor wrote: 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 <http://on-line.skytv.co.nz/> will work now.
Good work by CallPlus.
hmm... try telling that to Patrick Gilmore, the peering coordinator for akamai - one of the most vocal peering guys in europe.
how long ago was it that peering was a dirty word for akamai?
Indeed - Akamai has always been present at many large international IXes, in many cases being a cornerstone attraction (and often among the first 10GE participant). Patrick has a... vociferous appetite for peering, and always has. Back on topic; I'm pleased to see that someone has again stepped up to offering free access to Akamai content at an IX in NZ. I'd love it if Callplus could show or publish some statistics of the traffic volume hitting this deployment; it would give some insight into the streaming media load in NZ. aj
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Matthew Moyle-Croft