Re: Shortest path to the world

[Michiel Klaver <michiel () klaver it>]

Sean Donelan wrote:
> The typical network architecture problem, what are the best (shortest latency, greatest bandwidth, etc) locations to 
> connect to the every nation in the world?  As you increase the number of locations, how do the choices change?
>
> If you only had small (2 3 5 7 11) number of locations, where would they be?
>
> And what data do you have to prove the choices are best? 


Just a quick wikipedia and google search would provide you the answers
to that:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_Internet_users

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_exchange_points_by_size

http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats1.htm
http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats4.htm
etc...

have fun with all that data!

Kind regards,

Michiel Klaver
IT Professional