[52339] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AP IX locations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Thu Sep 26 13:40:20 2002
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 13:39:49 -0400
From: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
To: David Conrad <david.conrad@nominum.com>
Cc: James Spenceley <jrs@comindico.com.au>,
"Neil J. McRae" <neil@DOMINO.ORG>, nanog <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <B9B87772.12EC6%david.conrad@nominum.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 08:36:02AM -0700, David Conrad wrote:
> > sadly the best spot to interconnect is not in the AP region, its in Palo
> > Alto.
>
> Is this really still true?
I would not be surprised to find that it is.
Asia Pacific is an enormous region with lots of inconvenient ocean
all over it. An in-region strategy which works for peering with
Japan or Hong Kong or Korea is unlikely to put you close to a large
number of New Zealand operators, to give an extreme example.
Given the enormous scope of the question, the US west coast almost
sounds like an effective common denominator *regardless* of the
state of interconnection within the region, or the history of
US-centric traffic demand and under-sea cable routes.
> In Japan there are 4 IXes I'm aware of (JPIX and NSPIXP-2 being the
> largest). In Hong Kong, HKIX is (last I heard) pretty popular. In Korea,
> I'm told there are quite a few Ixes. There is some intra-Asia meshing going
> on (including both carriers as well as efforts like ABONE).
I think a question about the best place to peer within Asia is more
likely to have interesting answers than the question about Asia
Pacific.
Joe
