[54459] in North American Network Operators' Group
US-Asia Peering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William B. Norton)
Thu Jan 2 19:01:29 2003
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 15:59:35 -0800
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: "William B. Norton" <wbn@equinix.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Hi all -
I understand that there is a real glut of AP transoceanic capacity,
particularly on the Japan-US cable where twice as much capacity is idle as
is in use. This has sent the price point down to historic levels, O($28K/mo
for STM-1) or less than $200/Mbps for transport! This is approaching an
attractive price point for long distance peering so, just for grins,...
Are there transport providers that can provide a price point around
$100/Mbps for transport capacity from Tokyo to the U.S. (LAX/SJO) ?
What are the technical issue with extreme long distance (transoceanic)
peering?
In particular, what are the issues interconnecting layer 2 switches across
the ocean for the purposes of providing a global peering cloud using:
0) vanilla circuit transport to interconnect the switches
1) MPLS framed ethernet service to interconnect the switches
2) tunnelled transport over transit to interconnect the switches
Thanks in advance.
Bill
