Re: Creating exchanges

[Robert Mathews-ICICX <mathews () gold chem hawaii edu>]

On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, Ran Atkinson wrote:

>       Hawaii does have lots of fiber.  Monetary costs for circuits between
> Guam and Hawaii are not ignorable.  Also, back-haul all the way to Hawaii
> for an intra-Asia interconnect causes a significant increase in latency
> when compared with a Guam-based interconnect.  (No, I've never been to
> Guam and I don't own any land or fiber there :-)


    Adding to:

    The cost of transiting bits beyond CONUS to the Pacific is still 
quite significant.  TA circuit costs come to mind in comparison.  I can 
remember it being NOT all too long ago, when a DS1 from HI to CA was 
being priced roughly around US$56K/Mo.

    For Intra-Asia applications.. Indeed, Hawaii would not be the
appropriate spot.  However, when someone considers having to enable a 
tie-in to CONUS from certain parts of the Pacific,  Hawaii might appear 
as a natural choice.


> Ran
> rja () cisco com


All the best,
Robert.
ICICX.
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