[107834] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rod Beck)
Mon Sep 15 09:23:55 2008
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 14:19:38 +0100
From: "Rod Beck" <Rod.Beck@hiberniaatlantic.com>
To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jean-Fran=E7ois_Mezei?= <jfmezei@vaxination.ca>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Hi Francois,=20
The answer is yes. The cost of reaching Asian via the US was and is =
still much lower than via the cables that hug the Africain cost.=20
And since Europe had a lot of traffic terminating in the US, it made =
more sense to throw it all that way than split into two major routes.=20
Finally, a lot of European traffic is handed off to Asian backbones at =
the US West Coast peering points. There is no need to carry all the way =
to Asian since the Asian carriers have a huge presense at PAIX and other =
West Coast sites.=20
Regards,=20
Roderick S. Beck
Director of European Sales
Hibernia Atlantic
13-15, rue Sedaine, 75011 Paris
http://www.hiberniaatlantic.com
Wireless: 1-212-444-8829.=20
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``Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.'' =
Albert Einstein.=20
