[5203] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Creating exchanges
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Mathews-ICICX)
Fri Oct 11 17:29:05 1996
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 11:18:34 -1000 (HST)
From: Robert Mathews-ICICX <mathews@gold.chem.hawaii.edu>
To: Ran Atkinson <rja@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199610112042.NAA20405@cornpuffs.cisco.com>
On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, Ran Atkinson wrote:
> Hawaii does have lots of fiber. Monetary costs for circuits between
> Guam and Hawaii are not ignorable. Also, back-haul all the way to Hawaii
> for an intra-Asia interconnect causes a significant increase in latency
> when compared with a Guam-based interconnect. (No, I've never been to
> Guam and I don't own any land or fiber there :-)
Adding to:
The cost of transiting bits beyond CONUS to the Pacific is still
quite significant. TA circuit costs come to mind in comparison. I can
remember it being NOT all too long ago, when a DS1 from HI to CA was
being priced roughly around US$56K/Mo.
For Intra-Asia applications.. Indeed, Hawaii would not be the
appropriate spot. However, when someone considers having to enable a
tie-in to CONUS from certain parts of the Pacific, Hawaii might appear
as a natural choice.
> Ran
> rja@cisco.com
All the best,
Robert.
ICICX.
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