From: Bram Dov Abramson (no email)
Date: Fri Nov 02 2001 - 09:05:12 EST
>that can lay undersea cables yet? A cable from Northern Europe to Japan
>and the US North West under the North Pole icecap would be great.
Don't know about the icecaps -- the Middle East will probably have
more demand than the North Pole for a long long time -- but I think
FLAG has some bandwidth they'd like to sell you
(http://www.flagtelecom.com/cable_route.htm). As might the telcos
who own SeaMeWe-3 (http://smw3.fcr.fr/SMW/SMWB2.htm)...
So:
> > This report also says that the relevance of US for Internet is decreasing.
>
>Hm, I'm still waiting to witness a traceroute from Europe to Asia or the
>Pacific that doesn't go over the US for the first time.
Yes, but at least you can see traces from S Korea to Japan, say,
which don't route through Palo Alto. Region-to-region is harder.
cheers
Bram
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