QUOTE(eclectice @ Dec 13 2023, 03:50 PM)
GFN services are available in Japan through two GFN Alliance Partner providers - Softbank and au Japan. To my knowledge, there have been no news reports indicating that YES is the exclusive GFN service provider in Malaysia. It was only announced that YES was offering exclusive BETA for their YES customers to try until 10 April 2023 before it opened the service to non-YES customers. Therefore, there should be no issues accessing GFN services from multiple providers in the same country or region. Starhub GFN Singapore covers Malaysia as well. I believe YES is willing to invest in a new NVIDIA AI data center running on the latest NVIDIA DGX H100 costing billions of ringgit in Johor Bahru next year, to upgrade their infrastructure. TM fails to see that as well since its One Cloud Alpha data center is based on the Huawei platform. Yet, China is rushing to get NVIDIA RTX 4090 GPUs to power up its AI tech before the US sanctions.
https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/det...-geforce-now%3F
https://www.tmone.com.my/resources/news/tm-...cture-provider/
https://techwireasia.com/11/2023/can-huawei...allenge-nvidia/
Or TM has already signed an obligation with blacknut to host their services and is exclusive until it expires since Blacknut came to Malaysia first (Idk this exactly I’m just spitballing)https://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/det...-geforce-now%3F
https://www.tmone.com.my/resources/news/tm-...cture-provider/
https://techwireasia.com/11/2023/can-huawei...allenge-nvidia/
Currently I’ve tried both StarHub GFN and Yes GFN, both I have had no issues with queues (Which having multiple providers will help a lot). So maybe NVIDIA still don’t see a need currently to expand it unless they can’t keep up with the customer demands for VMs
Monopoly? Yes very much so, Yes charges RM20 more for non Yes customers, and Yes subscribers can only use credit card to pay for it, and non Yes customers can pay for it with debit for RM20 more
But you can technically save a bit by using StarHub’s, but I believe their traffic is higher so the queue will be longer, but in the short time that I’ve used it, I never had the in queue message popped up
And also, from a Reddit post, Malaysia GFN are using CC150 + Tesla P10, StarHub GFN is probably also comparable since they’re alliance partners as well as supposed to Nvidia’s own data center. So specs wise, they’re probably very much comparable to Blacknut or maybe better (I can’t find their specs unfortunately)
But I will agree that having TM hosting the VMs will definitely help a lot considering their peering routes are probably like 10x better compared to Yes’s peering to local telco/ISP
Dec 13 2023, 04:59 PM

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