Re: Question about co-lo in APAC region

[Mark Foster <blakjak () blakjak net>]

I would support this. I've had a hand in supporting infrastructure 
located in India and even with a relatively competent partner, some 
challenges in timely issue resolution.

My current employer operate facilities in Singapore, Malaysia and China 
with a lot more success (comparitively speaking).
Singapore and Malaysia are heavily favoured due to their large ICT and 
financial service industries as noted, also their english tends to be 
excellent and from a telecommunications perspective, they are reasonably 
well-served.
If you want a reference to someone who can help you in SG, MY or CN, 
you're welcome to contact me off-list.

I've also in a past-life worked with a partner in Japan, their service 
was excellent but there were more language challenges there for us poor 
sods limited to English.

Cheers,
Mark.

On 7/05/2015 7:39 a.m., Rafael Possamai wrote:
> Personal opinion: developing countries tend to have unstable utility
> service (power is what matters here), so your DC of choice in India should
> be Tier 4 preferably, which are hard to find and really expensive. Budget
> allowing, I'd stick to Hong Kong, Shangai or Singapore as you mentioned
> initially. These cities have pretty large financial services industries
> (which rely heavily on IT & telco in general) and large companies like
> Equinix/Digital Realty have already done the heavy lifting for you in terms
> of scoping a good location for an APAC datacenter.
>
>
> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 11:28 AM, c b <bz_siege_01 () hotmail com> wrote:
>
> > This is a pre-project discovery question... any help would be greatly
> > appreciated.
> > We have upcoming partnerships (opportunities) in APAC. The original plan
> > was to place the hub in Singapore. Just weeks before everyone was ready to
> > begin the RFP, it turns out that one of our partner businesses owns a Co-Lo
> > in India. Not sure what the name or the size of this business is yet. While
> > it would be nice to take advantage of this, we have potential partnerships
> > in China and other areas of APAC in development... we are hesitating to put
> > our APAC hub in India just based on latency and where the undersea cables
> > run.
> > So, I'm reaching out to NANOG... some of you guys have either worked with
> > businesses (or work in provider space) in both India and Singapore (and
> > elsewhere, such as Japan). Is there a clear reason to use/not-use India as
> > a hub? What would the pros/cons be? Is there a clear advantage to using
> > Singapore as we originally planned?
> > Again, we appreciate the feedback.
> > LFoD