Agreed. The dominance of Ashburn and Secaucus Equinix shows how private economic decisions driven by the need to reduce interconnection costs undermine network diversity.
Roderick Beck Global Network Capacity Procurement United Cable Company www.unitedcablecompany.com<http://www.unitedcablecompany.com> http://unitedcablecompany.com/video/ New York City & Budapest rod.b...@unitedcablecompany.com Budapest: 36-70-605-5144 NJ: 908-452-8183 [cid:d37f8982-36f8-4888-a889-5928cd9f461f] ________________________________ From: Raphael Mazelier <r...@futomaki.net> Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2022 4:02 PM To: Rod Beck <rod.b...@unitedcablecompany.com>; frnog@frnog.org <frnog@frnog.org> Subject: Re: [FRnOG] [ALERT] Nombreuses coupures de fibres optiques en France On 28/04/2022 15:55, Rod Beck wrote: In any country where one city dominates like Paris in France or London in the UK, it is likely that networks will be vulnerable because economics will push a lot of infrastructure into that dominant city. That central city become a major traffic hub. My opinion too. The only country that have a very different situation is actually USA, but more because of the inner nature of the country, and because of its width, that they have multiple big hubs. That said put north virgiania down and we will laugh... (well no). -- Raphael Mazelier ________________________________ From: Raphael Mazelier <r...@futomaki.net> Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2022 4:02 PM To: Rod Beck <rod.b...@unitedcablecompany.com>; frnog@frnog.org <frnog@frnog.org> Subject: Re: [FRnOG] [ALERT] Nombreuses coupures de fibres optiques en France On 28/04/2022 15:55, Rod Beck wrote: In any country where one city dominates like Paris in France or London in the UK, it is likely that networks will be vulnerable because economics will push a lot of infrastructure into that dominant city. That central city become a major traffic hub. My opinion too. The only country that have a very different situation is actually USA, but more because of the inner nature of the country, and because of its width, that they have multiple big hubs. That said put north virgiania down and we will laugh... (well no). -- Raphael Mazelier --------------------------- Liste de diffusion du FRnOG http://www.frnog.org/
