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Re: Creating exchanges
From: Stephen Stuart <stuart () pa dec com>
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 96 14:27:54 -0700
Hawaii does have lots of fiber. Monetary costs for circuits between Guam and Hawaii are not ignorable. Also, back-haul all the way to Hawaii for an intra-Asia interconnect causes a significant increase in latency when compared with a Guam-based interconnect. (No, I've never been to Guam and I don't own any land or fiber there :-)
My Big Map o' Fiber(*) shows the HAW-5 cable going from L.A.-ish (probably San Diego?) to Hawaii, and then continuing on to Guam and then Japan as TPC-5. The Pacrimeast cable leaves Hawaii bound for Wellington, NZ, and the Pacrimwest cable leaves Guam bound for Sydney/Canberra. Tasman-2 then connects Sydney/Canberra with Wellington. Both Pacrim cables and Tasman-2 are a LOT skinnier on the map than TPC-5 or HAW-5. Why does it have to be an either-or? Topologically, it looks like both Hawaii and Guam would both make sensible exchange points. For the west side of the Pacific Rim, though, Guam is looking pretty good from a U.S territory perspective.
Current thread:
- Re: Creating exchanges Ran Atkinson (Oct 11)
- Re: Creating exchanges Robert Mathews-ICICX (Oct 11)
- Re: Creating exchanges Stephen Stuart (Oct 11)
- Re: Creating exchanges bmanning (Oct 11)
- Re: Creating exchanges Robert Mathews-ICICX (Oct 12)
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- Re: Creating exchanges bmanning (Oct 11)
- Re: Creating exchanges Barry Raveendran Greene (Oct 13)
- Re: Creating exchanges Robert Mathews-ICICX (Oct 14)
- Re: Creating exchanges Geoff Huston (Oct 14)
- Re: Creating exchanges Thomas P. Koltai (Oct 20)