On Thu, 27 July 2000, Jonathon Plonka wrote:

I might point out that Global Crossing does lay out their paths as rings including under sea cables.

http://www.globalcrossing.com/net_ac1.htm for us to europe http://www.globalcrossing.com/net_pc1.htm for US to japan.

Go to http://www.flagatlantic.com/ to read about a major transatlantic cable that is organized in physical rings. To see what I mean you need to go to the "cable route" page and check out the detailled maps for London-Paris and New York where you will see that there are two end-point rings connected by a long transatlantic ring. --- Michael Dillon Phone: +44 (20) 7769 8489 Mobile: +44 (79) 7099 2658 Director of Product Engineering, GTS IP Services 151 Shaftesbury Ave. London WC2H 8AL UK