[107821] 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 23:39:15 2008
From: Matthew Moyle-Croft <mmc@internode.com.au>
To: Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info>
In-Reply-To: <A61B592F-C2E6-424A-9F2A-4FDCF34CA6D7@ca.afilias.info>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:08:43 +0930
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Other cable systems predated FLAG (at least for voice).
SEA-ME-WE predates FLAG by almost a decade. I'm sure some digging =20
would reveal a bit more on that path either submarine or terrestrial.
MMC
On 15/09/2008, at 11:06 AM, Joe Abley wrote:
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> On 14 Sep 2008, at 19:41, Jean-Fran=E7ois Mezei wrote:
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>> Did western europe ever really have a primary route via the USA to =20=
>> reach
>> asia ?
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> Yes, I think so. If I remember correctly, before FLAG started laying =20=
> cables, there was no terrestrial route to Asia from Europe that =20
> didn't involve North America.
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>
> Joe
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--=20
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