Akamai Geolocation Secret Sauce?

[gustavo at nexthop.com.br (Gustavo Rodrigues Ramos)]

Hello Ray,

I'm not familiar with Akamai's secret sauce. But I suppose geolocation
databases can be outdated very fast over time and things are getting worst
with the ipv4 depletion...

However, if you have a very large number of nodes spread across the globe,
you could use rtt and edns0 client subnet to map users and their locations.

https://blogs.akamai.com/2013/03/intelligent-user-mapping-in-the-cloud.html
https://blogs.akamai.com/2015/08/end-user-mapping-brings-users-closer-to-internet-nirvana.html

Regards,
Gustavo.


On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Ray Van Dolson <rvandolson at esri.com> wrote:

> Anyone familiar with how Akamai does its geolocation?  Presumably they
> do more than Maxmind/WHOIS, but I suppose one or both of those could
> factor in?
>
> For those of you with ARIN IP space, do you typically SWIP things to
> yourself to help clarify the locations where the IP space physically
> resides to feed into Geolocation databases?
>
> Thanks,
> Ray
>