In March 2018 I mapped nodes of Facebook globally using the airport string they use in the CDN URLs (detailed post here). Since then I posted a couple of times updates on as they are adding more nodes. There also have been questions via emails and comments on the blog in recent times about updated data.
Here goes latest data as on 22 Nov 2019. It’s published here.
Global stats Total nodes increased from 2204 as from Aug 2018 to 3184 now in Nov 2019.
(A very Indian specific post, International readers feel free to skip this one!)
From last month Motor Vehicles (Amendment) Act, 2019 came to existence. It increases fines for various violations a lot more then what it used to be. I don’t need to cover what has changed since it has been extensively covered in various news articles. One can refer to the Times of India article here which has a nice comparison of old Vs new fine.
This week I worked on the paperwork to get on the board of E2E Networks Ltd as one of the Independent Director. It was quite an interesting process as this is the first time I am joining the board of directors of an organisation.
About E2E Not to be confused by the “Networks” in the name, E2E is in the business of selling high powered, low cost compute (Virtual machines) hosted in India targeted towards Indian organisations.
(Warning: Post is about Indian politics and International readers can likely skip the post unless interested in Indian politics)
After the recent announcement of General Elections as well as tensions on relations with Pakistan, the whole environment is getting so political. News channels are full of people screaming about the party, the leader they support while the level of discourse has got to a very low level.
I must admit I was much more excited about elections back in 2014 as compared to now and I feel that is the case with many other people around me.
It’s kind of fun times in India with many IX’es showing up and now NIXI finally removing their traffic wise charge.
I came across this email which they sent to their member networks recently:
From: I X <[ix@nixi.in](mailto:ix@nixi.in)\> Sent: Thu, 21 Feb 2019 12:48:31 GMT+0530 To: "members " <[members@nixi.in](mailto:members@nixi.in)\> Cc: "[ceo@nixi.in](mailto:ceo@nixi.in)" <[ceo@nixi.in](mailto:ceo@nixi.in)\> Subject: Change in Data Transfer Charges (X-Y) Dear Members, In reference to the Board's direction to reduce the current data transfer (X-Y) charges from Re.