Magrath
20th March 2008, 02:13 PM
Following evaluation of the options concerned, Internode has taken the decision to invest in building a new international point of presence (PoP) site.
The new site will be in Tokyo, Japan.
This will be implemented as a 'breakout' of our existing capacity purchases from Australia via Japan to the USA on the AJC cable system.
Its not as simple as it might sound to do this - because getting from the coastal landing sites for AJC and other cable systems through to Tokyo is a bit of a challenge - its about 100 km's between the two, so the gigabit fibre patch leads need a little help :)
But... we're doing it - and indeed we are already well advanced on making it happen.
I won't provide a commit date on it because there are several components to making this work and we're trying to get them all done before we declare victory. We are expecting, however, that it should all be done within a month or two - again, we're already well advanced on much of it.
We'll be putting in an initial capacity breakout of the order of 622 Megabits per second, Sydney to Tokyo, which should be adequate for a start :)
What this will do:
- Add one more country to our network map
- Dramatically lower the latency of data flows between Australia and Japan (and onward to various other Asian destinations)
- Improve our redundancy and options in terms of gaining further transit connectivity to the world over time, and improve our global availability of access to the Internet for the same reason.
- Link us to a new market with new opportunities in it, for business and residential customers:
Business customers may find this boosts their ability to use Internode to reach Asian destinations efficiently; Residential customers should find this will improve performance for applications such as VoIP and online gaming into significant parts of Asia.
- Increase our global peering (we'll peer with Japanese Internet providers and content backbones such as Google Japan, etc etc).
We have a similar opportunity to establish a breakout into New Zealand, for largely similar reasons, and that option is currently being evaluated as well. Note that an NZ breakout is not a commitment at this time - only the Japan one is committed at this point.
There will be some media releases about this in due course, but I thought you might want to hear about it first, here :)
This is not a cheap exercise (to put it mildly) - but in all sorts of ways, its something we just had to do.
Regards,
Simon Hackett
The thread on Internode Whirlpool forum. (http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=940808)
The new site will be in Tokyo, Japan.
This will be implemented as a 'breakout' of our existing capacity purchases from Australia via Japan to the USA on the AJC cable system.
Its not as simple as it might sound to do this - because getting from the coastal landing sites for AJC and other cable systems through to Tokyo is a bit of a challenge - its about 100 km's between the two, so the gigabit fibre patch leads need a little help :)
But... we're doing it - and indeed we are already well advanced on making it happen.
I won't provide a commit date on it because there are several components to making this work and we're trying to get them all done before we declare victory. We are expecting, however, that it should all be done within a month or two - again, we're already well advanced on much of it.
We'll be putting in an initial capacity breakout of the order of 622 Megabits per second, Sydney to Tokyo, which should be adequate for a start :)
What this will do:
- Add one more country to our network map
- Dramatically lower the latency of data flows between Australia and Japan (and onward to various other Asian destinations)
- Improve our redundancy and options in terms of gaining further transit connectivity to the world over time, and improve our global availability of access to the Internet for the same reason.
- Link us to a new market with new opportunities in it, for business and residential customers:
Business customers may find this boosts their ability to use Internode to reach Asian destinations efficiently; Residential customers should find this will improve performance for applications such as VoIP and online gaming into significant parts of Asia.
- Increase our global peering (we'll peer with Japanese Internet providers and content backbones such as Google Japan, etc etc).
We have a similar opportunity to establish a breakout into New Zealand, for largely similar reasons, and that option is currently being evaluated as well. Note that an NZ breakout is not a commitment at this time - only the Japan one is committed at this point.
There will be some media releases about this in due course, but I thought you might want to hear about it first, here :)
This is not a cheap exercise (to put it mildly) - but in all sorts of ways, its something we just had to do.
Regards,
Simon Hackett
The thread on Internode Whirlpool forum. (http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=940808)