Re: Linux mirrors in India ? PCQ?

["Nagendra, VU2CLN" <ewiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

have anybody tried to talked to PCQ or sombody who is pro-linux in india
as I think PCQ spent more money sponsering the Linux section for the
2000 bangaloreit.com than getting a 2mb fiber leases line(12L?) :-)

so how about somebody like PCQ/Chip sponsering a shared 2mb Pipe in
bangalore/bombay for a FTP Server ? (on which most traffic will be
upstream than downstream so useable for their browsing/downloading too)

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Virtually yours, 
Nagendra 

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Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 06:52:01PM +0000, Ruchir Tewari typed:
> 
> > tried accessing ftp://sunsite.ernet.in and get
> > 'unknown host'. what's located there ?
> 
> Thats the wrong URL.  It's ftp://sunsite.serc.iisc.ernet.in
> 
> > i don't think it's unrealistic. big ISPs also
> > play the role of content provider along with
> > access provider.
> 
> Content providers, yes.  NOT download sites.  Even if they do, most ISPs would
> become a tucows mirror or something similar, as there are profits in doing so.
> 
> > VSNL, which is currently the biggest indian ISP has
> > access to the 75000 Km of fiber optic cable laid
> > out in India by DoT - which is being grossly
> > underutilized, because of not enough content in
> 
> If VSNL allows access to that, there are plenty of ISPs waiting in the wings,
> panting for excess bandwidth.
> 
> > apart from ISPs, we should explore Universities,
> > IITs, RECs, software technology parks and other
> > institutions to do mirroring of linux related
> 
> Institutions such as the RECs have _very_ limited internet access (like a 64k
> or lesser leased line shared among several hundred students)
> 
> > and other free software sites. i'm sure all of these
> > have a few Gb of hard disk and a few Mb of bandwidth
> > to spare.
> 
> My dear chap, most people have 256 kbps or so of bandwidth.  If you colo at
> VSNL / Satyam and others, the rate for bandwidth will make your head spin.
> 
> So, the only way to go is to chase the ISPs for this.
> 
>         --suresh
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