Re: why strict Net neutrality works best: simple beats complex

Abhijit Gadgil <[email protected]> Thu, 21 May 2015 16:51:26 +0530
Newsgroups gmane.org.telecom.india-gii
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> 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.