[LINK] Australian ISP Peering

[Tom Koltai]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au 
> [mailto:link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Glen Turner
> Sent: Wednesday, 18 March 2009 11:53 AM
> To: Geoff Huston
> Cc: link at anu.edu.au
> Subject: Re: [LINK] Australian ISP Peering
> 
> 
> 
> Agreed. Having said so, the lack of undersea diversity out of 
> Australia combined with the lack of Australia peering should 
> have lead the regulators to act some time ago to ensure the 
> stability of Australian telecommunications again a act of 
> nature causing a fiber cut (the Taiwan scenario) or the 

As I said in my previous email. Regulators do not understand the
vagaries of routing, or necessarily the impost on local commerce caused
by predatory dominant undersea pricing policies.

> destruction of major US peering points (the long-anticipated 
> San Andreas earthquake).

Already done Glen. Salt Lake City, Bend Oregon, Sacramento and Las Vegas
are interesting secondary mirror peers for PAIX, MAEWEST, FIXWEST - And
the cable landing at Coos Bay (OR) has redundancy straight up to Seattle
and Vancouver (BC).


Tom


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