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Re: Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S.
From: Jean-François Mezei <jfmezei () vaxination ca>
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2008 19:41:17 -0400
Hank Nussbacher wrote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/30/business/30pipes.html?partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagewanted=all
Pardon my ignorance here, but isn't this more of a case of traffic growing outside of the USA which means that traffic within the USA represents a smaller share of the total internet traffic ? Did western europe ever really have a primary route via the USA to reach asia ? (I realise that during the cable cuts in middle east last year, traffic might have been rerouted via USA but this would be a temporary situation). There may be political issues since the USA decided that there was to be no privacy with regards to traffic flowing to/from non-USA countries (so the 3 letter acronym orgs could spy/record that traffic without warrant). However, I am not sure if other transit providers would have built cables designed to avoid transit via the USA since then. It takes time to build a cable.
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- Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S. Hank Nussbacher (Sep 13)
- Re: Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S. Matthew Moyle-Croft (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. Jamie A Lawrence (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. Matthew Moyle-Croft (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. 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. Rubens Kuhl Jr. (Sep 14)
- Re: Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S. Murtaza (Sep 14)
- Re: Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S. Murtaza (Sep 14)
- Re: Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S. Jim Mercer (Sep 14)
- Re: Internet Traffic Begins to Bypass the U.S. Alexander Harrowell (Sep 15)
- 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. Matthew Moyle-Croft (Sep 14)
- 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)