Re: Creating exchanges

[bmanning () ISI EDU]

> 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.
>
> > From an infrastructure perspective, though, Japan looks hard to beat.
> The pipes to Singapore/Jakarta/Australia, Guam/Hawaii/L.A.-ish, and
> somewhere in Oregon (?) all meet there. Ignoring regulations, tariff
> issues, etc., of course.
>
> Stephen

My copy of said map does -not- cover planned new fiber runs.
Singapore and Japan are both well positioned as is HongKong 
for some of the new stuff I've heard coming from the C&W coop
and a planned ATT/KDD/PRC-MPT venture.

Oh... btw, the "wnog" would really be the IEPG.  iepg () iepg org
Or, since this has a distinctly PacRim flavor, APOPS.


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--bill
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