[142034] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: good geographic for servers reaching the South East Asia market
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael DeMan)
Thu Jun 16 23:21:54 2011
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1106161241300.67270@tiktik.epipe.com>
From: Michael DeMan <nanog@deman.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 20:22:08 -0700
To: Janne Snabb <snabb@epipe.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Hi Janne,
Any thoughts about Malaysia? The outfit I am working for on this right now a=
lready has manufacturing facilities there and it would be easier for them to=
do it in-country.
I would guess that probably everything from Kuala Lampur area is trunked via=
Singapore anyway?
- mike
On Jun 16, 2011, at 6:21 AM, Janne Snabb <snabb@epipe.com> wrote:
> Hello from Cambodia. I am familiar with the situation in Cambodia
> and some surrounding countries.
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> On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Michael DeMan wrote:
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>> Basically looking for tips on what cities/countries/locations
>> have as much (mostly submarine cabling in this case?) fiber
>> connectivity and redundancy. =46rom there I can trim down where to
>> begin looking specifically at data centers and colocation options.
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> Hong Kong, Singapore (and Taiwan).
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> Hong Kong is the best choice for some countries in the region:
> countries such as Cambodia and Vietnam have their uplinks mostly
> through Hong Kong.
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> Singapore is the best choice for others: Thailand, Malaysia and
> Indonesia have good connectivity to Singapore.
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> Taiwan I would place as the 3rd option.
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> No other realistic options exist in the region beyond that... US
> west coast is often the best option if you are not prepared to spend
> a lot of money (but check your upstream's peering with major SEA
> providers first).
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>> Also, if anybody offhand has any tips on political stability
>> and/or the risk of some kind of unwanted censorship by a given
>> country, that would be helpful as well.
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> All countries within the region are unsafe when it comes to censorship.
> Hong Kong is probably the only nearby place which does not openly
> practice censorship currently, but I would not count on that as
> it is just a (autonomous) province of China.
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> --
> Janne Snabb / EPIPE Communications
> snabb@epipe.com - http://epipe.com/
