Re: AP IX locations

[Joe Abley <jabley () isc org>]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 08:36:02AM -0700, David Conrad wrote:
> > sadly the best spot to interconnect is not in the AP region, its in Palo
> > Alto.
>
> Is this really still true?

I would not be surprised to find that it is.

Asia Pacific is an enormous region with lots of inconvenient ocean
all over it. An in-region strategy which works for peering with
Japan or Hong Kong or Korea is unlikely to put you close to a large
number of New Zealand operators, to give an extreme example.

Given the enormous scope of the question, the US west coast almost
sounds like an effective common denominator *regardless* of the
state of interconnection within the region, or the history of
US-centric traffic demand and under-sea cable routes.

> In Japan there are 4 IXes I'm aware of (JPIX and NSPIXP-2 being the
> largest).  In Hong Kong, HKIX is (last I heard) pretty popular.  In Korea,
> I'm told there are quite a few Ixes.  There is some intra-Asia meshing going
> on (including both carriers as well as efforts like ABONE).

I think a question about the best place to peer within Asia is more
likely to have interesting answers than the question about Asia
Pacific.


Joe