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Google disconnects Russian providers from a number of important servers

Google has decided to terminate the service contracts for some servers in its Google Global Cache network in Russia. It is used to speed up the loading of Google services, including YouTube content. Writes about it RBC.

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According to Dmitry Galushko, head of the law firm Orderkom, several telecom operators, including the Orenburg-based provider Radiosvyaz, received notifications.

He received a letter from one of the Irish subsidiaries of Google - Raiden Unlimited Company, which said that "due to changes in legal practice" the servers will be disconnected and Google employees will contact the provider in the near future in order to decommission the equipment.

The representative of "Radiosvyaz" confirmed that these servers were disconnected on May 19, and a few days later a notification came. He does not know the reasons for the shutdown, but he suggested that perhaps the American company considered this operator too small - a relatively small amount of traffic passed through the Google Global Cache server installed on it.

The provider MIPT-Telecom received the same notification. Google referred to its employees as “the MIPT team,” and the interlocutor linked the shutdown of the servers to the fact that the institute was on the sanctions list.

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In March 2022, the MIPT Telecom provider was unilaterally disconnected from Google Global Cache. But "the quality of services for customers should not be affected," the representative assured.

What is Google Global Cache

Google installs Google Global Cache servers on ISP networks around the world to reduce the load on backbone networks and increase the speed of user access to services, primarily for uploading videos to YouTube.

These servers store for some time the content that the local user has requested, for example, a video from YouTube, and if this video then wants to be viewed by another user from Russia, it will be transmitted to him not from the foreign data center of Google, but from the internal network of the provider from the server Google Global Cache. This allows you to download content faster, and providers reduce the amount of cross-border traffic, that is, the cost of network infrastructure.

The threat of a complete shutdown of servers

A representative of Rostelecom said that the company "does not observe outages" of Google Global Cache servers. MTS also reported that "the delivery of traffic from the resources of Google Corporation is carried out for MTS in the normal mode." They do not see any changes in the operation of this equipment and in MegaFon.

In mid-May, Google's Russian subsidiary, OOO Google, filed for bankruptcy. As the representative of the company explained, she can no longer ensure the work of the office due to the arrest of her bank account. The arrest was imposed as an interim measure under the lawsuit of the NTV Television Company, which is trying to recover a penalty for refusing to unblock users' access to their YouTube account.

This is just one of the claims brought against Google by various Russian structures. In addition, in December 2021, the court imposed a huge fine on Google for not removing content banned in Russia.

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RBC's source in one of the major Internet providers says that the bankruptcy of the Russian company has nothing to do with the shutdown of caching servers.

“This structure was not engaged in their service. This is a global service,” he explained.

One of the experts in the field of IT services said that in addition to YouTube, Google Global Cache servers host other Google services, such as Google CAPTCHA.

“If the operator is deprived of the ability to store this service on the Google server, users will start to have problems: the CAPTCHA may not load or be displayed as a failure,” he predicts.

This, according to the expert, "theoretically can affect the prices for the Internet for users," because the operators will have to compensate for the increased costs of servicing. The load on the network may also increase and the stability of the channels may decrease: if earlier there were many sources of content and it was possible to use the one that is closer, then in the event of a mass shutdown of servers, all traffic will fall on several foreign channels, which may have less bandwidth reserve and will less resistant to DDoS attacks.

A Google spokesperson has previously stated that despite the bankruptcy of the Russian company, they will continue to provide local users with free services such as a search engine, YouTube, Gmail, Google Maps, Google Play, etc.

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