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Re: Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S.

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Mon Sep 15 02:20:28 2008

From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 06:19:02 GMT
To: jim@reptiles.org
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org

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- -- Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org> wrote:

>UAE/Dubai is a major landing point for many asian/indian ocean fibers, =
but
>there is no equivilent of One Wilshire/60 Hudson/etc.
>
>so, as the data finds more and better direct routes to the end user,
>reducing the need to route through the US, there is still a penchant fo=
r
>hosting the primary data there.

A direct route to the criminals, too:

http://www.arabianbusiness.com/530800-uae-banks-step-up-security-after-c=
ard
- -theft

- - ferg

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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg(at)netzero.net
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