Delirium wrote:
Eden Akhavi wrote:
If we are talking Europe, I think the key here is
to consider where the
traffic comes from and who has good connectivity to that audience.
[analysis of network traffic by country snipped]
I'm not sure for our goals it's that big a deal which network we're
on, so long as it's a decent one. If the bottleneck in Wikipedia's
performance were network latency, we'd be in pretty good shape.
-Mark
You might also want to consider that Wikipedia is, on balance, a large
net source of network traffic, and that peering agreements make most
sense for networks which have balanced traffic in and out (and, for the
same reason, transit gets cheaper for balanced flows, even if you cannot
negotiate settlement-free peering). Thus, network providers with net
inflows may well be able to make substantial cost _savings_ by giving
Wikipedia free bandwidth, power and rackspace.
Wikipedia is rapidly becoming big enough to become a player in the
peering game, or at least should be aware of its advantage to others in
doing so. I presume this has not escaped the attention of some of our
potential benefactors...
-- Neil