Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai

[Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net>]

There's no need for speculation. Jared has already said in this thread that's exactly what he was hired for. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXBKnAbW4hQ 




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Mike Hammett 
Intelligent Computing Solutions 

Midwest Internet Exchange 

The Brothers WISP 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Mark Tinka" <mark.tinka () seacom mu> 
To: nanog () nanog org 
Sent: Monday, December 9, 2019 3:57:55 AM 
Subject: Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai 




On 8/Dec/19 19:17, Rod Beck wrote: 





Last time I spoke with an Akamai engineer many years ago the network was purely transit. Is that evolving? 



I believe Akamai are building, to a reasonable degree, an on-net backbone. 

Mark.