Ronald, utl wants cash to get to their server room? Seriously? Dont you have excess capacity to the ix in place already that would cost near zero to use for this purpose? Did the deal you made with google leave such a loophole? I doubt it, since google does learn from failure (mtn ggc). Would utl make the details of this arrangement public? Rgds, mctim
On 8/14/10, Muwonge Ronald <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8/13/10, Mark Tinka <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Friday, August 13, 2010 04:06:51 pm Muwonge Ronald wrote: >> >>> They can't be pulled both parties benefit for it and >>> trust me google benefits more :-) >> >> Oh, they would be pulled. >> >> I have it on good authority that Google aren't in the habit >> of appearing to favour larger players over others, since >> their intention is to reach as many eye-balls as they can. > > Then they should pay MTN and UTL for the bandwidth if they need us to > use the facility.By the way rumors say that's the only reason stopping > this "money involved" ;-). > Secondly,though hosted in Ug territory these nodes don't have "local > content" but cuts on Googles costs for requests sent to their Google > Modular Data Centers (beating the IX's objective remember?) I > understand MTN and UTL business wise but technically lets test the > thing as they finalize the money thing putting in mind the content > isn't local people ;-) >> >> If that isn't happening, they'll turn it off. However, it'll >> be logistically easier for folk hosting the GGC's to find a >> way to keep them running. >> >> The way forward now is for all other ISP's to figure out a >> model with UTL and MTN. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Mark. >> > _______________________________________________ > LUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > > LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > > All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. > --------------------------------------- > > -- Sent from my mobile device Cheers, McTim "A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A route indicates how we get there." Jon Postel _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
