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by le 12y ago
This is a neat article, but 'CDN' is such a broad term. This is much more a very well done proof of concept article, but fails to take into account the huge scope of a large scale CDN, and all associated quirks it comes with.
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by le 13y ago
They also account for an infinitesimally small amount of global net traffic. Their rapid adoption of IPv6 is more symbolic than anything else. And it got them mentioned here, so presumably it was a success.
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by le 13y ago
If you're in the US, this phone will only get 3G/HSPA service on T-Mobile, and it's MVNOs.
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by le 14y ago
Major CDNs do use anycast routing, in conjunction with DNS/geolocation based routing in locations where anycast's results would be unpredictable (usually in locations where there are many POPs.)
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by le 14y ago
Apple has a long running relationship with Akamai, but they also use Limelight and Level 3 for content delivery as well.
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by le 15y ago
If the deal goes through, it may require Facebook to take a different approach with their CDN strategy. They will probably either begin to roll their own (given their size and budgets), or move to a blended environment where they utilize mu
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by le 15y ago
Akamai's footprint exceeds 100k servers worldwide now, and that's just what they publicly disclose. It is likely more if you count in their DoD contracts. They're probably on par with Google now.
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by le 16y ago
The article was quite good until it started making comparisons of Catholics and Protestants to Apple collecting 30% for all sales through their store. It's like the author just gave up and couldn't figure out a way to end the article.
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by le 16y ago
The Fremont datacenter, if I remember correctly, is at Hurricane Electric. They had power issues in 2009 as well. http://blog.feedly.com/2009/11/03/24-minutes-of-unscheduled-...