[2947] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: topological closeness....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Fri May 17 14:31:17 1996
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 14:28:16 -0400
To: Che-Hoo Cheng <chehoocheng@cuhk.hk>
From: Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu, local-ir@apnic.net, ph-isp@iphil.net
At 12:44 AM 5/18/96 +0800, Che-Hoo Cheng wrote:
>
>Yes, they are still a minor aspect but I think they contribute serveral more
>percents to the return on investment. In AP, we have exchange points such
>as NSPIXP of Japan and HKIX of Hong Kong. If ISPs in other AP countries
>have links to JP or HK and automatically (or semi-automatically) they can
>connect to all ISPs in that country/region instead of just one or several
>ISPs in it, the connection is more valuable and justifiable. If the links
>can also be used to connect to other ISPs in other AP countries via that
>exchange, the connection is even more valuable and justifiable. Of course,
>we still can't eliminate the links to US altogether. But we probably can
>slow down the growth of bandwidth requirements to US a little bit.
>
Thanks for mentioning this -- it is exactly what is needed. :-)
- paul
