[128531] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cost of transit and options in APAC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Benson Schliesser)
Wed Aug 11 17:03:42 2010
From: Benson Schliesser <bensons@queuefull.net>
In-Reply-To: <4C62FFAE.1090608@bogus.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:03:34 -0500
To: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>, Franck Martin <franck@genius.com>,
nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 11 Aug 10, at 2:53 PM, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> I think the question is more like why am I being quoted $100 A megabit
> in India for transit in India? Not why am I being charged for for the
> transport cost across the pacific.
Obviously I can't speak for the providers in question, but I'd guess =
that the cost for transit in AP is strongly related to the cost of =
long-haul transport. Once upon a time, the majority of Internet traffic =
in AP countries *did* originate in the US. Does anybody have data that =
this is changing?
Cheers,
-Benson
