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"Would it seriously have gone to anywhere else?" Absolutely - Egypt. Much larger population, more deeply entrenched data (phone) usage, and cable landings tha
by rsync 4y ago
"Would it seriously have gone to anywhere else?"
Absolutely - Egypt.
Much larger population, more deeply entrenched data (phone) usage, and cable landings that are close, in hops, to European cable landings like Marseille.
During a lunch conversation years ago with init7 (European IP transit) engineers we discussed a fictional CDN and I, naively, threw out Dubai as a potential regional hub and they scoffed. Egypt is where the peering is.
- bretpiatt 4y agoEgypt is also larger in GDP than South Africa, 2nd on the continent behind Nigeria[1]. The interesting piece in decision process from my view is can North African customers support their operations with European regions due to the better peering/additional cabling while further south they really need something local in order to drive cloud adoption? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African_countries_by_GDP_(nominal) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_African_countries_by_G...
- Symbiote 4y agoEgypt has good connections to Europe and the Middle East, so there's no need for a new region there. Host in Madrid, Milan or Tel Aviv instead. South Africa is filling a gap.
- dehrmann 4y agoAbsolutely not. It's not politically stable enough and is too close to Europe, so there isn't a big enough ping time benefit.
- polski-g 4y agoEgypt generally bans encryption, so that would not work for GC.
- armatav 4y agoWay higher up in Africa than SA?