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Re: Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S.
From: Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 11:23:15 +0200
* Jean-François Mezei:
Did western europe ever really have a primary route via the USA to reach asia ?
It depends where you buy transit from. For instance, I see Baidu through AT&T, and the traffic is routed through the U.S. Some Singaporean banks and a few Koran government sites are routed through Level3, also via the U.S West coast. For sites in Thailand and Vietnam, the picture is a bit unclear (no visible IP hop in the U.S.). On another network, I reach Baidu through Telia, and it's still routed through the U.S. West coast. Both networks appear to see IIJ through a peering in San Jose. Anyway, at times, the more apt question would have been: Is Europe reachable from Europe without crossing the U.S.? I can't read the NYT story, but it seems highly unlikely to me that risk of eavesdropping on behalf of democratically elected governments is a factor in public Internet routing decisions.
Current thread:
- Re: Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S., (continued)
- Re: Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S. Jim Mercer (Sep 15)
- Re: Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S. Joe Abley (Sep 15)
- Re: Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S. Jean-François Mezei (Sep 14)
- Re: Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S. Matthew Moyle-Croft (Sep 14)
- Re: Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S. Mark Prior (Sep 16)
- Re: Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S. Joe Abley (Sep 14)
- Re: Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S. Matthew Moyle-Croft (Sep 14)
- Re: Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S. Joe Abley (Sep 15)
- Re: Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S. Matthew Moyle-Croft (Sep 15)
- Re: Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S. Geoff Huston (Sep 15)