Re: why strict Net neutrality works best: simple beats complex
Abhijit Gadgil <[email protected]> Thu, 21 May 2015 16:51:26 +0530
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<snipped> > Remember all big companies (facebook, google, twitter, youtube, netflix, > etc. etc. have their primary data warehouses outside India (to circumvent > Indian laws) so whenever you use any of these, traffic is generated from > India to wherever these guys data-centers are! Not entirely true - Most of the data for many of these is actually served from India. I once could ping to a youtube server on 10ms. Physically impossible to be out of India. > > One of the idea - most common one which I mentioned - was to create virtual > circuit switch; ie all packets travel the same way using the same > hops/routers; like in the good-old-telephony. This was precisely the motivation for MPLS and is widely deployed in the networks.