And how do you think verizon is paying for that? With the monopoly money that we (the citizens of the US) gave them.
Verizon only has to sit on their ass to make billions - no private startup could ever compete with that in the current funding environment.
whoever wrote this artlcle is on crack.
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Blade servers are not supposed to be stacked vertically, and you can fit *way* more than 42 blade servers in a single rack. The author is thinking of 1U boxes, which have only been around for say... 10 years!
look at : http://www.compaq.com/products/servers/platforms/i ndex-bl.html
I feel for the african isp's but this is strictly an issue of peering economics. If you don't have the right traffic, then you can't get free peering. If you don't have free peering, then you pay for the local loop and the bandwidth (even if the local loop is all the way across the atlantic) It is as simple as that.
Check out: http://www.uu.net/peering/ for a sample of what kinda traffic you need for a very large peer.
Granted, Legato is not open source or anything. But it is a pretty nice piece of backup software, and supports backing up almost everything out there to a single tape. I've been running the linux client for months, and have zero problems - it just works.
AAh!. I hate to do this, but stay away from exodus at all costs. Exodus has yet to figure out how to run and manage a big IP network. They are down all the time, and have KILLED customers of theirs with shitty performance. (my personal experiance)
Look at staying with the big guys (UUnet, bbn/gte, etc) if you are looking to do more than host a shell box cheaply.
Also check out level(3), and globalcenter. Both are willing to deal, and have excellent networks.
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And how do you think verizon is paying for that? With the monopoly money that we (the citizens of the US) gave them.
Verizon only has to sit on their ass to make billions - no private startup could ever compete with that in the current funding environment.
Blade servers are not supposed to be stacked vertically, and you can fit *way* more than 42 blade servers in a single rack. The author is thinking of 1U boxes, which have only been around for say... 10 years!
i ndex-bl.html
look at : http://www.compaq.com/products/servers/platforms/
280+ servers in a rack.
think about the overhead of syncronizing 1M processors....
I feel for the african isp's but this is strictly an issue of peering economics. If you don't have the right traffic, then you can't get free peering. If you don't have free peering, then you pay for the local loop and the bandwidth (even if the local loop is all the way across the atlantic) It is as simple as that.
Check out: http://www.uu.net/peering/
for a sample of what kinda traffic you need for a
very large peer.
-jba
Granted, Legato is not open source or anything. But it is a pretty nice piece of backup software, and supports backing up almost everything out there to a single tape. I've been running the linux client for months, and have zero problems - it just works.
AAh!. I hate to do this, but stay away from exodus at all costs. Exodus has yet to figure out how to run and manage a big IP network. They are down all the time, and have KILLED customers of theirs with shitty performance. (my personal experiance)
Look at staying with the big guys (UUnet, bbn/gte, etc) if you are looking to do more than host a shell box cheaply.
Also check out level(3), and globalcenter. Both are willing to deal, and have excellent networks.