[128534] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cost of transit and options in APAC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel Jaeggli)
Wed Aug 11 18:15:32 2010
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:15:22 -0700
From: Joel Jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Benson Schliesser <bensons@queuefull.net>
In-Reply-To: <01FC6493-65A8-45D6-809A-06C65565F4B9@queuefull.net>
Cc: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 8/11/10 2:03 PM, Benson Schliesser wrote:
>
> 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.
Start with something that can be effectively isolated from the
transpacific path.
Gotten a quote for a 1Gbe or 10Gbe between two cities in India recently?
map that onto what you'd pay for a similar path in the US, count the
extra zeros (once you account for the fact that INR is 46.91 to the dollar).
> 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
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