[99468] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: New TransPacific Cable Projects:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (michael.dillon@bt.com)
Sun Sep 23 10:09:42 2007
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 15:11:01 +0100
In-Reply-To: <5910A294-DB08-4830-99FB-AD2CEE6E7AF4@multicasttech.com>
From: <michael.dillon@bt.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> Not to mention that the Taiwan straits earthquake showed a=20
> clear lack of physical diversity on a number of important=20
> Pacific routes, which I know some companies are laying fiber=20
> to address.
Anyone who took the trouble to read the two articles knows
that one of the two cables is a USA-to-China direct cable
that does not hop through Japan. This is really part of a=20
larger connectivity story for the People's Republic of China
along with the trans-Russia cable being built by Russia's
railway-backed TTC and China Unicom.=20
http://europe.tmcnet.com/news/2007/09/20/2954870.htm
I wouldn't be surprised if this is somehow connected with
GLORIAD as well. In any case, the USA-China direct route is
clearly avoiding the Taiwan Straits weak point.
And the other cable, which Google is involved in, is connecting
the USA and Australia, a country that has always had connectivity
issues, especially pricing issues. This has led to a much higher=20
use of web proxies in Australia to reduce international traffic
levels and this may be the key to why, Google, an application
developer and ASP/SaaS operator, is trying to build a cable link
to the major English language market in Asia-Pacific.
Seems to me both builds are adressing diversity issues in different
ways, and if this results in a bandwidth glut to the region, that
may be part of the plan.
--Michael Dillon
