[5267] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Creating exchanges [Was: Re: MAE-East - 30%]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Che-Hoo Cheng)
Sun Oct 13 10:41:12 1996
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 1996 22:32:29 +0800
From: Che-Hoo Cheng <chcheng@cuhk.edu.hk>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
>
> From: Dave Curado <dcurado@neteng.nis.newscorp.com>
>
> However, I had huge problems running an ISP in HK. The telco pricing
> has always been such that it is scads less expensive to connect back
> to the US than to another country, even another country just a few
> miles away. I keep watching the pricing and goings-on to see if/when
> there will be a reasonable pricing decrease on bandwidth to Asia, but
> haven't seen anything yet.
>
> Oh well, mark HK off the list...
Pls don't. :) In fact, the situation is the same in almost all
countries within Asia/Pacific.
> For the time being, it seems that the most affordable solution would
> be for each country to build it's own exchange, and have everything
> link back via the US. (although its silly to have traffic from HK
> to Bangkok routing via San Jose...)
>
> Well, Hawaii is closer... :-/
But frankly, there is no incentive to connect to Hawaii or Guam unless
an AP-CIX has really been set up there with significant number of major
participants. A chicken & egg problem!?
Cheers,
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