[5206] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Creating exchanges
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@isi.edu)
Fri Oct 11 18:18:40 1996
From: bmanning@isi.edu
To: stuart@pa.dec.com (Stephen Stuart)
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 15:11:29 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: rja@cisco.com, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <9610112127.AA00476@nsl-too.pa.dec.com> from "Stephen Stuart" at Oct 11, 96 02:27:54 pm
>
> Hawaii and Guam would both make sensible exchange points. For the west
> side of the Pacific Rim, though, Guam is looking pretty good from a
> U.S territory perspective.
>
> >From an infrastructure perspective, though, Japan looks hard to beat.
> The pipes to Singapore/Jakarta/Australia, Guam/Hawaii/L.A.-ish, and
> somewhere in Oregon (?) all meet there. Ignoring regulations, tariff
> issues, etc., of course.
>
> Stephen
My copy of said map does -not- cover planned new fiber runs.
Singapore and Japan are both well positioned as is HongKong
for some of the new stuff I've heard coming from the C&W coop
and a planned ATT/KDD/PRC-MPT venture.
Oh... btw, the "wnog" would really be the IEPG. iepg@iepg.org
Or, since this has a distinctly PacRim flavor, APOPS.
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--bill
