I have known several people to use these and some have seen bandwidth
savings. MS updates is one of them. Something to note, is that as
George says, it can go both ways. The key is to find out where people
are going (YouTube) and ensuring that they will help accelerate that.
George Rogato wrote:
There is possibly additional costs involved.
Not sure if Marlon is paying by the bit or dedicated or 95%, but
Akamai also uses your bandwidth to reach other customers close to you
from the servers they place on your network.
I think if someone was colocated in Seattle, they could maybe just
peer with them. One way to avoid some bandwidth costs.
Anthony Lemons wrote:
Getting the Akamai servers installed on your network doesn't cost
anything. They ship you the equipment free of charge and you just
install it. More info can be found on their site:
http://www.akamai.com/html/partners/network_partner.html
Anthony
At 11:34 AM 1/8/2008, you wrote:
I'm thinking of doing some kind of caching again too. What's the
cost for this type of thing? We only service about 450 or 500
broadband subs, using two different networks. I'm not sure of the
cost benefit these days.
thanks,
marlon
----- Original Message ----- From: "Travis Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 9:39 PM
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Akamai
We love Akamai... especially during big Windows Update periods. :)
We serve 12 school districts and they all seem to do their updates
on PC's and servers during the same times (during school breaks)
and the Akamai servers save us a ton of bandwidth and the customers
get GREAT speeds doing the updates.
Travis
Microserv
George Rogato wrote:
Anybody have any experience with Akamai?
I'm thinking of adding some Akamai servers to my network again,
looking for opinions.
Thanks
George
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