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Re:Snap commits $2B over 5 years for Google Cloud infrastruc... by tonfa on Friday February 03, 2017 @08:07AM (#13559508)
You colo bandwidth is likely not from a global CDN with hundreds of PoP: https://peering.google.com/#/infrastructure
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Re:Snap commits $2B over 5 years for Google Cloud infrastruc... by patrickg_zill on Friday February 03, 2017 @09:27AM (#13559968)
Bandwidth is bandwidth these days. Plenty of companies like Internap are out there that can help you with low latency bandwidth, especially when you are spending a lot.

But given that Snap could be anywhere in the USA, they could locate their servers anywhere. I wasn't pushing Denver, or the colo I am in, as the solution.

It's just kind of shocking that people are willing to pay 20 times or more the going rate for bandwidth...

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