On 10/28/05, Rony Bill ronbillypop@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Instead of using foreign cable connections to visit sites located outside India everytime a user clicks on a url, can some big companies or organisations get together to create a very high volume of web space in India and mirror most of the world websites with updates every day or more frequently through the existing undersea cable links, leaving the users to surf locally on the mirrored pages. That would reduce the load on these cable links.
That is already happening. Akamai (http://www.akamai.com) does provide caching (this is different from mirroring but helps the same purpose of accelarating websites for end-users). However, the onus to provide fast access like on the companies themselves by entering into contract agreements with akamai.
Disclosure : I work for Akamai India. --> Vinayak H -- www.livejournal.com/users/vinayakh/