[52351] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AP IX locations
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael C. Wu)
Thu Sep 26 15:02:52 2002
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 11:57:12 -0700
From: "Michael C. Wu" <keichii@iteration.net>
To: Dorian Kim <dorian@blackrose.org>
Cc: keichii <keichii@iteration.net>, nanog@merit.edu,
"Neil J. McRae" <neil@DOMINO.ORG>
Reply-To: "Michael C. Wu" <keichii@nuit.iteration.net>
Mail-Followup-To: "Michael C. Wu" <keichii@iteration.net>,
Dorian Kim <dorian@blackrose.org>, nanog@merit.edu,
"Neil J. McRae" <neil@DOMINO.ORG>
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On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 02:43:19PM -0400, Dorian Kim scribbled:
| On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 01:30:42PM -0500, keichii wrote:
| > Above.net and AT&T are your best bets for operations based in the Americas.
| > Above has a .jp IX/colo that is almost "the" best connected place in AP.
| > ATT and Above.net provide almost 80 to 90% of the bandwidth from
| > the Americas to AP.
|
| A handful of incumbent telcos of AP region countries as well as few others
| operate multigigabit IP networks across the Pacific. I don't think they'd
| agree with your statement.
They co-own the fibre lines to the US and other places, and the upstream
for the AP telcos is inevitably a U.S. large scale provider.
Cheers,
Michael
