Re: good geographic for servers reaching the South East Asia market

[Michael DeMan <nanog () deman com>]

Hi,

I wanted to thank everybody for their feedback.  Everything seems to correlate with what I have heard - generally Hong 
Kong and Singapore are the major hubs, with Tokyo even being an option even though it is not 'geographically' close and 
also possibly there are options in Malaysia.

I think I have what I need for this.  I am just a worker-bee on this project getting preliminary information for a 
potential project by a client next year, which may not or may not even be a 'go' anyway.

Out of curiosity, I stumbled across this kind of cool map of submarine cables - does anybody know if it is very 
accurate or up to date?  If nothing else, it is kind of fun to play with since you can slide around and zoom in/out 
with it and stuff.

http://www.cablemap.info/



- Mike




On Jun 15, 2011, at 4:50 PM, Michael DeMan wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I guess this is a bit off-topic since this is the North American network operators group, but I was wondering if 
> anybody had much experience with fiber infrastructure in the South East Asia area.
>
> For reference, generally the WikiPedia entry on South East Asia describes the service delivery area:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southeast_Asia
>
> Basically looking for tips on what cities/countries/locations have as much (mostly submarine cabling in this case?) 
> fiber connectivity and redundancy.  From there I can trim down where to begin looking specifically at data centers 
> and colocation options.
>
> Also, if anybody offhand has any tips on political stability and/or the risk of some kind of unwanted censorship by a 
> given country, that would be helpful as well.
>
> Feel free to post back on-list or off-list.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Michael DeMan