[128538] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cost of transit and options in APAC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gregg Berkholtz)
Wed Aug 11 18:58:24 2010
In-Reply-To: <01FC6493-65A8-45D6-809A-06C65565F4B9@queuefull.net>
From: Gregg Berkholtz <gregg@tocici.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:57:58 -0400
To: Benson Schliesser <bensons@queuefull.net>
Cc: nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Around 40% of our low-end/budget VPS hosting customers are based in APAC. It=
's common for departing customers to cite the primary reason as seeking lowe=
r latency to their regions.=20
Sent while on the go, please excuse terseness.
On Aug 11, 2010, at 17:03, Benson Schliesser <bensons@queuefull.net> 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 t=
he cost for transit in AP is strongly related to the cost of long-haul trans=
port. Once upon a time, the majority of Internet traffic in AP countries *d=
id* originate in the US. Does anybody have data that this is changing?
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> Cheers,
> -Benson
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