Al-Naday, Mays F H <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
    > Inline few thoughts on the subject.

Very hard to follow what you are saying, maybe use normal quoting?

    Mays> Mays: may be not in traditional CDN but intuitively there must be
    Mays> some mapping and caching logic that would pin down an ‘optimal’
    Mays> entry/fanout point (don’t recall the exact name CDNs call it)

geo-IP?

    Mays> unless I misunderstood the point, this assumes that CDN operators
    Mays> run their own network - separate from ISPs - but much of CDNs
    Mays> piggyback on an ISPs network and to fetch non-cached content they
    Mays> still have to go over whichever IXPs connects the ISP, so (IMO) the
    Mays> correlation is still between traffic and content popularity more
    Mays> than CDN/noCDN and what’s in-between?
    
1) Many CDNs already run their own networks for feeding their caches.
2) Buying a L3 pipe from point A/B from some other provider can be cheaper
   than buying general Internet from them.  

Figuring out how all this would work is what the workshop is about.


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