The Cuban CDN
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The Cuban CDN
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Re: The Cuban CDN
#2I was expecting an announcement for a new Cloudflare CDN location in Cuba.
What I found instead was extremely interesting and funny.
I won't spoil it, so go read the article :)
Re: The Cuban CDN
#3I was expecting an announcement for a new Cloudflare CDN location in Cuba. What I found instead was extremely interesting and funny. I won't spoil it, so go read the article :)
It's not out of the question that we'll have a PoP in Cuba.
Re: The Cuban CDN
#4I was expecting an announcement for a new Cloudflare CDN location in Cuba. What I found instead was extremely interesting and funny. I won't spoil it, so go read the article :)
It's not out of the question that we'll have a PoP in Cuba.
In fact, it's quite probable. Doubt it'll happen in 2016, but bet it will by the end of 2017.
Re: The Cuban CDN
#5I wonder what the future of El Paquete Semanal will be once Cuba inevitably gets less ridiculously priced and more available internet access. As it stands, there could be a large percentage of users who don't even have NICs, as all you'd need for El Paquete Semanal is a USB port.
I'm also interested in whether it's more of a loan/library service where this org has hundreds or thousands of hard drives that get loaned out once a week and swapped out for new content or if someone has to physically sit and wait for the subscribers to copy data over. The logistics of this are so fascinating, I just want more!
Re: The Cuban CDN
#6I was expecting an announcement for a new Cloudflare CDN location in Cuba. What I found instead was extremely interesting and funny. I won't spoil it, so go read the article :)
I was expecting an announcement of a CDN service being launched or acquired by Mark Cuban.
Re: The Cuban CDN
#7I wonder what the future of El Paquete Semanal will be once Cuba inevitably gets less ridiculously priced and more available internet access. As it stands, there could be a large percentage of users who don't even have NICs, as all you'd need for El Paquete Semanal is a USB port. I'm also interested in whether it's more of a loan/library service where this org has hundreds or thousands of hard drives that get loaned…
Most Cuban computers are older (~5-10 years) laptops and a lot of netbooks, which do include WiFi and often RJ-45 Ethernet.
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#8What a fascinating curation problem! A collection of these would make a fine addition to archive.org.
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#9I was at the last FISL (http://softwarelivre.org/fisl17?lang=en) in Porto Alegre and attended a session by Pablo Mestre (https://twitter.com/elmor3no_) on the free software movement in Cuba.
I was really impressed by what they achieved, given that they have little internet access. He mentioned that the largest network was the one linking health-related institutions and that many doctors had internet at home (even if at slow speeds).
Re: The Cuban CDN
#10I wonder what the future of El Paquete Semanal will be once Cuba inevitably gets less ridiculously priced and more available internet access. As it stands, there could be a large percentage of users who don't even have NICs, as all you'd need for El Paquete Semanal is a USB port. I'm also interested in whether it's more of a loan/library service where this org has hundreds or thousands of hard drives that get loaned…
It will disappear.
El Paquete Semanal is not at all unlike the combination of sneakernet and shareware CDs that I enjoyed in semi-rural western Canada, during the 80s and early 90s. We were crippled by long-distance fees, and very few FidoNet BBS' were available; IIRC, there was one in my local calling area, and it was hideously expensive.
The local community bookstore started by selling shareware discs, in 5.25 and 3.5; and when it came available, in CDs. They were professionally packaged, and they restocked every Tuesday. The demand for content was high enough that restocking so frequently didn't mean throwing out old content. If 1tb USB drives were available then we would have used those; but they weren't, and the most economical way to deliver content was through CDs and discs. Since burners were rare, and because disc and floppy medium aren't zero-cost, it made sense for the local bookstore to sell the packaged content.
With the advent of high-speed internet to our homes, we were a test area for the deployment of cable internet in around '96, the bookstore stopped selling shareware altogether.