Content Delivery Networks


Google, Akamai, etc

Content providers STRONGLY PREFER to install at Internet
Exchanges (therefore, nowhere in Western Canada thus far)

(they sometimes show up on private networks under agreement)

They typically bring in 1-5 racks of equipment and serve any
network who is on the Internet Exchange

Why place a rack in Los Angeles when you want to serve eyeballs
in Calgary?

They need to feed their caches (therefore, want cheap network
at the location)