Before it is send to a mobile phone, the data has to be retrieved in the classic way. Do you really think that the companies who run mobile network do not have the expertise to keep a bunch of caching servers in the air ? When you do, do you think that all these mobile operators do not have that skill? Do you think they do not have capacity at the key locations of the Internet infrastructure? Thanks, GerardM
On 19 October 2013 13:44, Leslie Carr lcarr@wikimedia.org wrote:
On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi,
I am not so much interested in what they use. What I would like to
suggest
is that we have partners in both Africa and Asia. They are likely to have the expertise to run a caching centre on our behalf. They provide us a service in bringing Wikipedia at no cost to their customers. When we pay them to run a non-discriminatory caching service, it would increase our service and maybe even the cost of transatlantic traffic. Thanks, GerardM
Running a mobile network is completely different operation from running a CDN.
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