[107810] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jean-Fran=E7ois_Mez)
Sun Sep 14 19:41:28 2008
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:41:17 -0400
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jean-Fran=E7ois_Mezei?= <jfmezei@vaxination.ca>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20080914084528.00adaeb8@efes.iucc.ac.il>
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Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/business/30pipes.html?partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all
Pardon my ignorance here, but isn't this more of a case of traffic
growing outside of the USA which means that traffic within the USA
represents a smaller share of the total internet traffic ?
Did western europe ever really have a primary route via the USA to reach
asia ? (I realise that during the cable cuts in middle east last year,
traffic might have been rerouted via USA but this would be a temporary
situation).
There may be political issues since the USA decided that there was to be
no privacy with regards to traffic flowing to/from non-USA countries (so
the 3 letter acronym orgs could spy/record that traffic without
warrant). However, I am not sure if other transit providers would have
built cables designed to avoid transit via the USA since then. It takes
time to build a cable.
