Am 26.08.2009 um 00:13 schrieb Lanny Marcus: > On 8/25/09, Rainer Duffner <rai...@ultra-secure.de> wrote: >> Am 25.08.2009 um 23:16 schrieb Lanny Marcus: >>> >>> Hi Johnny and thank you for asking for feedback. I am in Cali, >>> Colombia, South America. >>> Our route to Brazil, for one of many examples, would be via Miami/ >>> Ft. >>> Lauderdale, Florida, USA. So, for us, in Colombia, it is much >>> better >>> to have a Mirror site in South Florida or the S.E. USA, if possible; >>> since I do not believe there is one in Colombia. The fact that >>> Colombia is adjacent to Panama, Brazil, Venezuela, etc., would >>> make a >>> Mirror in one of those countries faster, *if* we had a direct >>> route on >>> the Internet to them, but, we don't. I suspect for most countries >>> in >>> Latin America, this would be the same, since Latin America is so >>> strongly connected to Miami, "the capital" of Latin America. Lanny >>> _______________________________________________ >> >> Though off-topic, I find this interesting. >> Don't you in South America have some sort of high-speed network >> connecting the various universities there? >> >> Don't you have peering-points somewhere? >> >> Sorry for hijacking this thread... > > Rainer: I don't think your reply is OT or hijacking. Good point. I > suspect that in the EU, there is a lot of peering between countries, > but here in SA, I don't think so.
I suspected that. To illustrate, this: http://www.caida.org/research/topology/as_core_network/pics/ascore-ipv4-ipv6.200903_poster.pdf is the map I was looking for. > For one example, in our most > advanced neighboring country, Brazil, they speak a different language. > And, with 2 other neighboring countries (Venezuela and Ecuador) we > have very serious political problems, because of the friendship > Colombia has with the USA, the assistance those 2 countries give to > Colombian guerrilla groups, etc. Oh dear ;-) This is what they call a "problem on ISO layer 9". cheers, Rainer _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
