TENET peers with Google

TENET's UK frontend Ubuntunet [wiki] is now peering with Google.

This is only in the UK for now, presumably they'll peer locally when Google gets their act together. Let's hope Google isn't waiting for the Seacom cable to land too.

Google local delays

So now SM of Google SA is promising better SA-local access to Google services by the end of 2008. Only a year after they promised it the last time:

[via mybroadband.co.za]

Masie said that by the end of 2008 services such as Google Search, Google Maps and Youtube would work a lot faster, better and quicker in South Africa.

Google SA have been quite coy in announcing anything about their local datacenter plans. Is this to avoid tipping their hand? Perhaps they'll extend their GGC 'CDN' to South Africa. This might be the best way to dip their toe in the waters and gauge local usage and interest, especially once mid-2009 rolls around and Seacom's better pricing comes online.

Don't care about nanowires? That's good.

[via DailyTech]

So UPenn researchers have discovered a good way of storing ternary digits.

Great news for Cisco, Juniper, et al. You may wonder why, and the answer is quite simple: TCAMs. Basically this could help speed up address mangling, e.g. for routing tables.

Facebook making money via Google

Does anyone else see a Google Custom Search box beneath the applications list?

Facebook could be raking in some serious money from that.

Surprise surprise

So it turns out that some people have been using the looming spectre of the 2010 Soccer World Cup to help talk up their projects.

Infraco - I'm talking about you!

It's not that surprising, really. What is interesting is the talk of SAT-3 (amusingly and unintentionally further abbreviated as at-3) being upgraded to 320 Gbps. This will at least help Telkom with some extra bandwidth - 120 Gbps was pretty paltry at introduction and now looks downright anemic. Does Telkom dominate the SAT-3 consortium so much that it can just force the upgrade?