yeah they give Class A Private Ips for btcache
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I hope BSNL comes up with something similar so that they can save a lot of International Bandwith but doubt BSNL babus will understand the term "peering" and also doubt their copper
ADSL lines can withstand such high speeds becasue attenuation will rise up to such extent that both landline and net will be unstable :/ They atleast need VDSL +2 technology to implement Extreme Peering
Implementing this on BSNL or MTNL would not affect attenuation or cause stability issues. Some ISPs in NZ are using similar technology and the country is around 99% on ADSL, on copper that is around 40 years old unless you live in a newly constructed area.
What it would mean though is that BSNL might finally have to listen to what I've been saying for the past couple of years and remove speed caps (allowing up to 8 or 24mbits according to the line quality/age of DSLAM etc) and just charge for data at nice & inexpensive rates.
I mean, they *could* offer unlimited services, but the reason I think data is a better way to go is because ADSL just isn't very good at allowing for unlimited services because of the way it has to be provisioned (so even if they gave maximum line speed, inevitably congestion would kick in and bugger the whole issue so you'd only end up getting 512k-1m during peak hours anyway... and this is based on the experience of a couple of providers in NZ).
VDSL is marginally better, but not *necessary* for this technology to be implemented (I wouldn't be complaining if I was able to reach 15-20mbit/s on my DSL plan while downloading certain content) and irrespective of what I mentioned in the previous paragraphs, whichever pricing model they choose, I do think BSNL would do very well to implement this sort of thing. With multi-Terabyte caches in each city, they could reduce stress on their domestic long haul network (which is the part of BSNL's network that's closest to falling apart due simply to congestion & stupid routing), fix a lot of the routing issues and improve the overall quality of service.
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mgcarleyras.beamtele.net is a beam fiber peer.
@siddhartha dutta, I dont think bsnl will do this kind of caching
I'm well aware of what ras.beamtele.net is, thanks, but as much as I would like to see it, I do agree that it would be unlikely for BSNL to implement this kind of thing, thanks to bureaucracy and stuff
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