Now that Latin America will have its own Internet, can we shift Regnum?

[leafdale]

Latin America (Argentina, Brazil etc) will now have its own separate internet fibre optic network. With this network we will have less lag. Regnum is not really meant for Americans anyway? It is more of a Latin game :-
http://www.dw.de/brazil-wants-intern...-us/a-17134352

Can we shift all of Regnum to this new network for less lag? Will NGD consider doing it once it is ready?

[Shwish]

You hear that all Americans, this game is not meant for you. Get out!!!

[bois]

LOL. Easily said.

The infrastructure requirements to make such a shift are huge. It will require huge investment in fiber to Africa and Europe. Brazil can probably do this but it is going to take years. Like 5 + years.
Not to mention it will require a lot more IXPs (internet exchange points) in the country to cache and route the data locally instead of having to take long trips outside the country. Without those, lag will still be an issue due to congestion.
Keep in mind, IXPs are mainly to cache and serve local traffic faster and more efficiently.

Of course, for international trade and electronic trade, International connections of high speed are still needed.

On top of that , Brazil's issue is with USA and the NSA spying on them, in particular on the president and Petrobras. NGD servers are in Sweden.

Have a look at this.
http://www.cablemap.info/

Brazil's greatest benefit would be to run high capacity fiber ( in the order of 40 Tbps) straight from Europe to Brazil. Become a hub for South America and instead of having the US links as the main pipeline, use the Europe route via Portugal. This alone should improve latency. The US links then become supplementary capacity.

Besides, how much revenue comes from the international community? I am willing to bet a lot. NGD is not going to cut of their nose to spite their own face.
Datacenters, switching ISP capability , costs yada yada yada.

Short answer : no.

[leafdale]

Originally Posted by bois

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Besides, how much revenue comes from the international community? I am willing to bet a lot. ...

But isn't Ra much larger and profitable than Haven? Surely it would be better to just focus on spanish speaking? It is better for game no?

Also Americanos... meh... they cannot dance like my cousin can! ¿Querrías bailar conmigo?

[standistortion]

Beware of "let's split up the internet" talk. Preventing spy operations is one of the justifications for it but the aim is to impose borders on digital communications and so restrict freedom of speech.

[m4cgregor]

Today, all the internet flow between Latin American countries, goes troguh USA.

That means, a mail send from Argentina to Brasil, must cross the entire continent, and go back. ( and get spyed, maybe.)

The idea of the new optical ring, is avoid this innecesary trip.

PS: "American": inhabitants of the America continent. I am ( as an argentinian, an American)

[Vadhir]

Originally Posted by bois

LOL. Easily said.

The infrastructure requirements to make such a shift are huge. It will require huge investment in fiber to Africa and Europe. Brazil can probably do this but it is going to take years. Like 5 + years.
Not to mention it will require a lot more IXPs (internet exchange points) in the country to cache and route the data locally instead of having to take long trips outside the country. Without those, lag will still be an issue due to congestion.
Keep in mind, IXPs are mainly to cache and serve local traffic faster and more efficiently.

Of course, for international trade and electronic trade, International connections of high speed are still needed.

On top of that , Brazil's issue is with USA and the NSA spying on them, in particular on the president and Petrobras. NGD servers are in Sweden.

Have a look at this.
http://www.cablemap.info/

Brazil's greatest benefit would be to run high capacity fiber ( in the order of 40 Tbps) straight from Europe to Brazil. Become a hub for South America and instead of having the US links as the main pipeline, use the Europe route via Portugal. This alone should improve latency. The US links then become supplementary capacity.

Besides, how much revenue comes from the international community? I am willing to bet a lot. NGD is not going to cut of their nose to spite their own face.
Datacenters, switching ISP capability , costs yada yada yada.

Short answer : no.

Pardon my ignorance but... those little lines are cables under the oceans/seas?

[Linuxmage]

Originally Posted by Dilith

Pardon my ignorance but... those little lines are cables under the oceans/seas?

Yes, and if you hover over them, they show available bandwidth.

If you hover over the central EU one, you will see its a 42Tbps line.

There are reasons why NGD host all their servers in Sweden, and its mostly down to cost.

Also, this game has a good size EU and US playerbase (see Valhalla), and it would be stupid to cut them off.