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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: NY ranks #1 in Internet b/w
Apparently, there's no enough EU <-> AP traffic to justify direct circuits. The dispersion-shifted single-mode ground fiber (along the route of Trans-Siberian railroad) does exist. --vadim On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > > On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Nipper, Arnold wrote: > > > But if you look at trunks going into *another* country the same report comes > > to this ranking. > > > London > > Paris > > New York > > Amsterdam > > Frankfurt > > > This report also says that the relevance of US for Internet is decreasing. > > Hm, I'm still waiting to witness a traceroute from Europe to Asia or the > Pacific that doesn't go over the US for the first time. Are there subs > that can lay undersea cables yet? A cable from Northern Europe to Japan > and the US North West under the North Pole icecap would be great. > > > As ever: never trust a statistic unless you faked it yourself ... > > But one thing is obvious: we IP people put our stuff where we think we > want it, not where it should go looking from a redundancy/vulnerability > standpoint. > > If I want to send a packet from The Hague to Philadelphia, the packet will > almost certainly pass Amsterdam and New York, two places where huge > amounts of traffic can easily be disrupted. If the IP routers were to be > placed closer to the places where seacables surface, this problem would go > away: all those major hubs are serviced by multiple fiber landing > locations. >
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