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

[Matthew Moyle-Croft <mmc () internode com au>]

I think it began a while ago, but I suspect it'll increase.  There's now 
two trans-Russian terrestrial systems, and more investment in Asia - 
Europe cables.   Initially the capacity will be used for redundancy and 
to shorten latencies (ie. just to go around the other way and because 
it's quicker than going US->Atlantic->Europe from Asia).

I don't think any of this will be because of sinister reasons, just for 
good engineering reasons and probably just to guarantee, without a 
doubt, that your circuit does NOT go through One Wilshire!

MMC

Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/business/30pipes.html?partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all 
>
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> -Hank

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