Creating exchanges [Was: Re: MAE-East - 30%]

Sat Oct 12 03:25:48 UTC 1996

   From: Ran Atkinson <rja at cisco.com>

   A very logical place for a CIX-like open interconnect in the
   Asia/Pacific region is Guam, because large quantities of fiber
   (including most of the fiber to/from North America) transits Guam.  At
   least one ISP (UUnet) has an operational site on Guam shown on their
   currently online network map, no doubt because they have clue about
   where the fibre runs.

Actually, almost all of that fiber comes up on one side of the island,
through the repeater hut, and then goes back down into the sea.  As of
three years ago when I was actively researching the possibilities for
this kind of thing (and setting up IIKK, now PSInet Japan in Tokyo),
there was almost no bandwidth groomed out of the trans-pac or regional
cables as they went through Guam.  If things have changed since then
I'd be interestied to know; as it greatly affects whether Guam is a
"logical" place to put an AP-CIX.  'Course, if everyone who joins
decides to run a full OC12 or OC48 or whatever they run on a single
strand of glass in one of those cables to the island, there wouldn't
be any need for grooming out bandwidth out there?

                                        ---Rob