On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 08:36:02AM -0700, David Conrad wrote:
sadly the best spot to interconnect is not in the AP region, its in Palo Alto.
Is this really still true?
I would not be surprised to find that it is. Asia Pacific is an enormous region with lots of inconvenient ocean all over it. An in-region strategy which works for peering with Japan or Hong Kong or Korea is unlikely to put you close to a large number of New Zealand operators, to give an extreme example. Given the enormous scope of the question, the US west coast almost sounds like an effective common denominator *regardless* of the state of interconnection within the region, or the history of US-centric traffic demand and under-sea cable routes.
In Japan there are 4 IXes I'm aware of (JPIX and NSPIXP-2 being the largest). In Hong Kong, HKIX is (last I heard) pretty popular. In Korea, I'm told there are quite a few Ixes. There is some intra-Asia meshing going on (including both carriers as well as efforts like ABONE).
I think a question about the best place to peer within Asia is more likely to have interesting answers than the question about Asia Pacific. Joe