[107819] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Sun Sep 14 22:51:41 2008
From: Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info>
To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jean-Fran=E7ois_Mezei?= <jfmezei@vaxination.ca>
In-Reply-To: <48CDA11D.2070407@vaxination.ca>
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:36:12 -0400
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On 14 Sep 2008, at 19:41, Jean-Fran=E7ois Mezei wrote:
> Did western europe ever really have a primary route via the USA to =20
> reach
> asia ?
Yes, I think so. If I remember correctly, before FLAG started laying =20
cables, there was no terrestrial route to Asia from Europe that didn't =20=
involve North America.
Joe
