Originally Posted by Acaila
G'day, I'm the Internode rep that made that post on WP (About Oceanic servers)
Internode 1st approached Blizzard about hosting WoW servers in Australia at the 2004 E3, we had "disscussions" with Blizzard on and off for a few years and in the end we were told that its just not ecconomically viable for them to run servers here.
Nothing to do with Telstra being the only "true" provider (Which is bullshit) and nothing to do with available space in a Data Centre.
Just pure $ invested vs potential return.
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Thanks for posting that. I've been involved in Australian IT since before we were connected to the rest of the world, and I always understood that the reason against the servers were because of the asymmetrical peering relationships between Australia and the US partners.
I've been out of the networking space for many a long year now, but is that still the case ? Or does Australia have full partnership for data interchange now ?