Splitting the Earth into 7th level s2 regions.We try to alternate new PoP placement between selecting the most advantageous PoP for the existing and potential Dropbox users.Ī tiny script helps us brute-force the problem by: what location will benefit Dropbox users better, Vienna or Warsaw? The problem persists as the number of PoPs grows: e.g. Even with a small number of PoPs without assistive software it may be challenging to choose between, for example, a PoP in Brazil and a PoP in Australia.
The current PoP selection procedure is human guided but algorithm-assisted.
The process of PoP selection, which was easy at first, now becomes more and more complicated: we need to consider backbone capacity, peering connectivity, submarine cables, but most importantly the location with respect to all the other PoPs we have.
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