[107803] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Moyle-Croft)
Sun Sep 14 05:02:04 2008
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 18:31:51 +0930
From: Matthew Moyle-Croft <mmc@internode.com.au>
To: Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20080914084528.00adaeb8@efes.iucc.ac.il>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
I think it began a while ago, but I suspect it'll increase. There's now
two trans-Russian terrestrial systems, and more investment in Asia -
Europe cables. Initially the capacity will be used for redundancy and
to shorten latencies (ie. just to go around the other way and because
it's quicker than going US->Atlantic->Europe from Asia).
I don't think any of this will be because of sinister reasons, just for
good engineering reasons and probably just to guarantee, without a
doubt, that your circuit does NOT go through One Wilshire!
MMC
Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/business/30pipes.html?partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all
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> -Hank
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