RE: Asian exchange points

["Barry Raveendran Greene" <bgreene () cisco com>]

IXP in Asia are nation oriented. It is a mistake to think that an IXP in one
country will give you access to other countries with have oceans in-between
them. Connectivity between the countries are usually through the big global
transist providers or bi-lateral AP-Mesh peering technique (private peering
over an ocean which takes in oceanic circuit prices).

So pick the country, then find the IXP in that country that would give you
the best national coverage. All the IXPs in Asia are on the
http://www.ep.net/naps_ap.html list. One thing you will note is that the big
global transit providers show up in at least one IXP per country.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu]On Behalf Of
> Richard A Steenbergen
> Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2002 10:07 AM
> To: Dave Curado
> Cc: nanog () merit edu
> Subject: Re: Asian exchange points
>
>
>
> On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 12:59:12PM -0400, Dave Curado wrote:
> > Hi Richard,
> >
> > http://www.ep.net/naps_ap.html
>
> I was looking for more along the lines of opinions on which exchange
> points are significant, without having to go through that entire list
> looking for the english translations and trying to find traffic stats.
>
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