Creating exchanges

Fri Oct 11 20:42:50 UTC 1996

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 at cisco.com

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