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Dave Curado wrote: > but note that HK has a reasonable sized nap already. The HKIX. > My understanding is that they are about to upgrade the exchange > to an ATM switch. (whatever) Just a minor note regarding HKIX: As the person-in-charge of HKIX, I would say upgrading to ATM is not of urgent need for the current traffic volume (5-min average up to 11Mbps). In fact, with the expensive tariff of T3 local circuit (starts at US$7,700/month for a full circuit) and unavailability of clearline OC3 service, upgrading HKIX (currently a Catalyst 5000) with an ATM switch is almost out of the question especially after the recent roll-out of city-wide ATM service by Hongkong Telecom (starts at US$4,200/month for two ends with OC3 physical circuits). > I'd love to see someone get an oc3/12/48 pipe from HK to the west > coast, and resell to the 60+ HK ISPs at reasonable prices. Me too. :) But unfortunately, it is still not justified to set up a OC3 pipe for Hong Kong. But maybe a DS3 pipe is justified. Anyone looking at this business opportunity? :) > 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...) It seems that this applies more to medium-sized ISPs. We now see large ISPs with deep pockets setting up intra-Asia/Pacific connections or backbones. Examples are Global One, Asia Internet Holdings (ABONE), UUNET, AT&T, IBM, CWIX, STIX, and mesh connections of ISPs run by telephone companies in Asia/Pacific. It seems that they have totally different business models. Fortunately (to HK), most of them have presence in Hong Kong so they can choose to interconnect at HKIX. :) Cheers, -- Che-Hoo Cheng | Email: [email protected] Data Comms and Networking Section | URL: http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/ Information Technology Service Unit | Tel: +852 2609-8848 The Chinese University of Hong Kong | Fax: +852 2603-5001 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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