On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, Ran Atkinson wrote:
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 :-)
Adding to: The cost of transiting bits beyond CONUS to the Pacific is still quite significant. TA circuit costs come to mind in comparison. I can remember it being NOT all too long ago, when a DS1 from HI to CA was being priced roughly around US$56K/Mo. For Intra-Asia applications.. Indeed, Hawaii would not be the appropriate spot. However, when someone considers having to enable a tie-in to CONUS from certain parts of the Pacific, Hawaii might appear as a natural choice.
Ran rja@cisco.com
All the best, Robert. ICICX. ------