[93593] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: U.S./Europe connectivity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com)
Wed Dec 6 10:43:24 2006
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To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Michael.Dillon@btradianz.com
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 15:31:30 +0000
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> "You cannae break the laws of physics, Captain!"
>
> Seriously, LINX is the obvious first step.
To find a low latency connection from Chicago to Europe?
Somehow I think that he should be shopping locally but
it might be useful to use the LINX looking-glass
to validate what his local vendors tell him about
round trip times. Or he could use a looking-glass
in Chicago to measure traffic to various European
destinations.
LINX, London
http://www.linx.net/www_public/our_network/network_tools
Equinix, Chicago
http://lg.broadwing.net/looking/
If I were in his position I would make the rounds of
all vendors in Chicago, ask for prices and latency data,
then check their latency numbers using various
looking-glass sites. If a vendor gives out numbers that
vary significantly from what you can measure then I
would want a detailed explanation of why that is.
--Michael Dillon
