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Re: AP IX locations

  • From: Michael C. Wu
  • Date: Thu Sep 26 15:05:30 2002 
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 02:43:19PM -0400, Dorian Kim scribbled:
| On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 01:30:42PM -0500, keichii wrote:
| > Above.net and AT&T are your best bets for operations based in the Americas.
| > Above has a .jp IX/colo that is almost "the" best connected place in AP.
| > ATT and Above.net provide almost 80 to 90% of the bandwidth from
| > the Americas to AP.
| 
| A handful of incumbent telcos of AP region countries as well as few others 
| operate multigigabit IP networks across the Pacific. I don't think they'd 
| agree with your statement.

They co-own the fibre lines to the US and other places, and the upstream
for the AP telcos is inevitably a U.S. large scale provider.  


Cheers,
Michael