Personal opinion: developing countries tend to have unstable utility service (power is what matters here), so your DC of choice in India should be Tier 4 preferably, which are hard to find and really expensive. Budget allowing, I'd stick to Hong Kong, Shangai or Singapore as you mentioned initially. These cities have pretty large financial services industries (which rely heavily on IT & telco in general) and large companies like Equinix/Digital Realty have already done the heavy lifting for you in terms of scoping a good location for an APAC datacenter. On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 11:28 AM, c b <bz_siege_01@hotmail.com> wrote:
This is a pre-project discovery question... any help would be greatly appreciated. We have upcoming partnerships (opportunities) in APAC. The original plan was to place the hub in Singapore. Just weeks before everyone was ready to begin the RFP, it turns out that one of our partner businesses owns a Co-Lo in India. Not sure what the name or the size of this business is yet. While it would be nice to take advantage of this, we have potential partnerships in China and other areas of APAC in development... we are hesitating to put our APAC hub in India just based on latency and where the undersea cables run. So, I'm reaching out to NANOG... some of you guys have either worked with businesses (or work in provider space) in both India and Singapore (and elsewhere, such as Japan). Is there a clear reason to use/not-use India as a hub? What would the pros/cons be? Is there a clear advantage to using Singapore as we originally planned? Again, we appreciate the feedback. LFoD