[107817] 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 21:16:45 2008
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:16:26 -0400
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jean-Fran=E7ois_Mezei?= <jfmezei@vaxination.ca>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <48CDA3D8.8030006@internode.com.au>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote:
> Most Asian providers (at least Northern Asia) use USA, Atlantic path to
> get to Europe. The capacity going Westt isn't that high in comparision,
> so the extra latency hit is well offset by the much reduced cost.
I take it voice would have priority for use of the existing europe-asian
links ?
When there were a number of cable cuts in middle east last year, I
remember BBC mentioning that internet access to asia was much slowed due
(this was significant to those companies who had outsourced a lot of
stuff from europe to India). I guess this would have been more of media
hype than reality ?
> For instance, out of Australia we have a single, old cable going West
> out of Perth to Singapore (SEA-ME-WE3) which allows only low speed
> circuits,
Was there any thought about building cables to singapore from darwin now
that it has had fibre links to the rest of australia for over a decade ?
