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There is plenty of dark fibre around in Australia (driven by a need to bypass monopoloy Telcos) that the bandwidth costs cited by Cloudflare have no real effect
by mcbridematt 11y ago
There is plenty of dark fibre around in Australia (driven by a need to bypass monopoloy Telcos) that the bandwidth costs cited by Cloudflare have no real effect on datacenter design.
(The 'true' cost of transit in AU, ignoring Telstra is closer to the Asia region average of $30 IIRC)
I think higher energy and real estate costs in Australia have more of a bearing - it is quite possibly cheaper to 'import' bits into Australia than to store/process/etc locally (any data sovereignty issues notwithstanding)
- CountSessine 11y agoIf it's dark fibre, how is it having any effect at all on transit cost?
- mcbridematt 11y agoI didn't say it did. It was a side comment that the situation was not as dire as Cloudflare said - if you can avoid buying transit directly from one specific provider.
- CountSessine 11y ago#include <pedantic.h> Yes, you did: A: There is plenty of dark fibre around in Australia (driven by a need to bypass monopoloy Telcos) B: the bandwidth costs cited by Cloudflare have no real effect on datacenter design and C: (The 'true' cost of transit in AU, ignoring Telstra is closer to the Asia region average of $30 IIRC) Based on simple sentential logic, you are saying A->B and we're provided with C as additional information. Unless your word that isn't being used as an implicative connective, which would be silly. How does fallow, unused, dark fibre have any effect on transit cost? Is there a 'transit cost' options market or something?
- rasz_pl 11y agothey will be happy to light it for you, at $10K a month https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeEAVj2Szbg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeEAVj2Szbg