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At 12:44 AM 5/18/96 +0800, Che-Hoo Cheng wrote: > >Yes, they are still a minor aspect but I think they contribute serveral more >percents to the return on investment. In AP, we have exchange points such >as NSPIXP of Japan and HKIX of Hong Kong. If ISPs in other AP countries >have links to JP or HK and automatically (or semi-automatically) they can >connect to all ISPs in that country/region instead of just one or several >ISPs in it, the connection is more valuable and justifiable. If the links >can also be used to connect to other ISPs in other AP countries via that >exchange, the connection is even more valuable and justifiable. Of course, >we still can't eliminate the links to US altogether. But we probably can >slow down the growth of bandwidth requirements to US a little bit. > Thanks for mentioning this -- it is exactly what is needed. :-) - paul - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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