Re: geo short vs long term? [Re: Geo pros and cons]

[Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis@kurtis.pp.se>]

> A 500 km detour (from Paris over Amsterdam or the other way around) is 
> something we shouldn't consider out of the ordinary. In the US for 
> example, only a tiny fraction of all traffic should be expected to 
> stay within the same city or state. In Europe this is different for 
> reasons such as language, and most countries have at least one 
> interconnect location of national importance.
But not all of them, or probably very little of total traffic is 
exchanged over them. In % of total traffic I think most of European 
traffic goes through fibers owned by Telehouse in London. Although not 
the fibers of Linx or LoNAP but through the private interconnects.

- kurtis -