Hi Nanog, As we extend our reach into Asia, we're finding that our typical carriers (see: upstreams of AS36692) who provide service to us in North America and Europe are not able to offer us service in Asia either (1) at all or (2) at prices remotely resembling our pricing in NA and EU. For example: Level(3) simply has no presence in Asia and on the pricing side, NTT, GBLX, Verizon and others' pricing is many times higher than their NA and EU pricing. In most cases, it's 10 or more times higher. Additionally, some of the networks seem to market their network based on their reach into the US, rather than their reach into actual users in Asia, which is what we're looking for. So my question is, what are non-APAC-based networks doing as they expand into Asia for transit beyond peering with whomever will peer with them to get close to actual users in Asia? Are people using regional carriers? Are people just paying the "crazy" (compared to US pricing) bandwidth costs? Are people doing peering-only setups out there? Any help would be useful -- hopefully this is on-topic for NANOG, which I think it is, since I'm curious how NA operators deal with these challenges as they expand into APAC. I'm happy to summarize responses later if there is interest. Thanks, David