On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, Ran Atkinson wrote:
This is another reason to use Guam for an interconnect. Guam is part of the USA and so telecommunications is already deregulated. (A side benefit for US citizens living on Guam is that Guam is the only place in the universe where one's income is not subject to US Federal Income Tax, go figure :-).
On Oct 11, 10:35am, Robert Mathews-ICICX wrote: % Hello Fellow Electronic Colleagues: % % <looking around a room> Can anyone say Hawaii? :) Hawaii does have lots of fiber. Monetary costs for circuits between Guam and Hawaii are not ignorable. Also, back-haul all the way to Hawaii for an intra-Asia interconnect causes a significant increase in latency when compared with a Guam-based interconnect. (No, I've never been to Guam and I don't own any land or fiber there :-) Ran rja@cisco.com --