[128532] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cost of transit and options in APAC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leigh Porter)
Wed Aug 11 18:02:36 2010
From: Leigh Porter <leigh.porter@ukbroadband.com>
In-Reply-To: <01FC6493-65A8-45D6-809A-06C65565F4B9@queuefull.net>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 23:02:22 +0100
To: Benson Schliesser <bensons@queuefull.net>
Cc: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 11 Aug 2010, at 22:03, Benson Schliesser wrote:
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> On 11 Aug 10, at 2:53 PM, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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?
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> Cheers,
> -Benson
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Well, it would be hard to change because who would host in country when =
it costs so much to do so. It'd be much cheaper to host out of the =
country thereby exasperating the whole problem.
--
Leigh Porter
