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Re: Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S.

  • From: Matthew Moyle-Croft
  • Date: Sun Sep 14 21:34:54 2008

On 15/09/2008, at 10:46 AM, Jean-François Mezei wrote:

Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote:

Most Asian providers (at least Northern Asia) use USA, Atlantic path to
get to Europe. The capacity going Westt isn't that high in comparision,
so the extra latency hit is well offset by the much reduced cost.

I take it voice would have priority for use of the existing europe- asian
links ?

Probably - voice is pretty small in the scheme of things (my estimate is less than 1% of used capacity out of Australia (used not lit)).
But, from Australia to Europe the difference in latency East vs West may not make a LOT of difference to voice where 150ms-200ms one way isn't too bad.



When there were a number of cable cuts in middle east last year, I
remember BBC mentioning that internet access to asia was much slowed due
(this was significant to those companies who had outsourced a lot of
stuff from europe to India). I guess this would have been more of media
hype than reality ?

I suspect it did slow it down - I was talking more Northern Asia (China, Japan, Korea) than India.

Companies who relied on purchasing, corporate links between India and Europe (for example) would probably be happy to pay the premium for low latency path direct, whereas IP transit providers want cheap, bulk capacity that the Northern Pacific routers offer. 


For instance, out of Australia we have a single, old cable going West
out of Perth to Singapore (SEA-ME-WE3) which allows only low speed
circuits,

Was there any thought about building cables to singapore from darwin now
that it has had fibre links to the rest of australia for over a decade ?

Ha! Darwin has the incumbent only. It's cheaper to go around the world than from Australia to Darwin.

Perth will be the place again as there is a reasonable amount of trans- Australian capacity across the Nullabour. Although a Darwin break out from such a cable would be welcome, but the small population in the Northern Territory maybe doesn't make it viable unless a big mining /oil drilling/gas firm wants a lot of capacity.

Hopefully the extension of the Singapore->Indonesia cable Matrix have/ are building to Perth will happen in 2010/11.

Although, personally, I'd love to see a Perth-Chennai cable given what's going on in India.

MMC

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Matthew Moyle-Croft Internode/Agile Peering and Core Networks