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[Din] Re: How Consolidation is Eroding Internet Resilience

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i blogged this recently - may contain some tech detail errors as the news was fairly hot off the press when i wrote, but same basic message:-
https://paravirtualization.blogspot.com/2025/11/cloud-versus-edge-i-think-jury-is-still.html

On Mon, Nov 24, 2025, at 3:44 PM, Lixia Zhang wrote:
> Forwarding a relevant link originally posted to the nanog mailing list:
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> https://pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/how-consolidation-is-eroding-internet-resilience
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> Some may find this of interest.
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> Regards,
> Hank
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