From: "Miguel A.L. Paraz" <map@iphil.net> Robert E. Seastrom wrote:
If things have changed since then I'd be interestied to know; as it greatly affects whether Guam is a "logical" place to put an AP-CIX.
How about the ISPs in Guam, and the University of Guam? and the telco on Guam and the X.25 carrier, and any private lines that run in there. Sure. There _is_ _some_ bandwidth broken out on the island. Enough to make it a reasonable place for an AP CIX? My recollection is "no".
'Course, if everyone who joins decides to run a full OC12 or OC48 or whatever they run on a single strand of glass in one of those cables to the island, there wouldn't be any need for grooming out bandwidth out there?
Well, if they would split it out later for connections to an exchange point. Kinda ironic that the cable has to "split" out just for the purpose of "mixing" all the signals together. Well, that's live in the TDM muxing world... :) I think this Guam-based NAP would make an interesting project, especially for people like us who need it. :) Or, if the Guam folks decide they need a lot of bandwidth, they'll have it. Oh, I think it would make an "interesting" project, all right. Let's just say that having dealt with telcos and internal telco politics, the notion of trying to convince one or more of the carriers that they should install muxing gear there is probably an 18 month to two year project. And God help you if they find out it's to support greater connectivity for "that internet thing". Stuff like Vocaltech has gotten them terrified anyway; you can hardly expect them to cooperate in international high bandwidth internet connections if by simply doing nothing they put the brakes on the growth of this "thing", that they do not understand but is by their perception threatening to eat their lunch. Telco Disease -- Just Say No. And no, I don't have a better idea, except to examine tariffs and figure out where it is relatively cheap to run circuits in the pac rim -- you might be surprised that due to local influences like monopoly telcos, the pricing structure has little to do with bandwidth x distance. Hong Kong looks slightly promising except for the slight problem of next summer. Singapore is probably a no-go because of how anal the government is there; all we need is an AP CIX with a host government enforced AUP that says "no dirty gifs, no politicallly unacceptable speech, etc". Look at the cable maps again and figure out who has enough bandwidth to support our needs and then... start calling for pricing. Don't forget to get pricing for both halves of the circuit. :) ---Rob