aaron@hkco.ahkcus.org (Aaron Y.T. Cheung) (01/05/91)
Survey on International T1 International Connections
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Just at the same momement I was trying to send off a poll on
international T1 (and similar) Internet connections (and was
wondering if this is the right newsgroup to send the poll to), I
saw Allan's article surveying 56K bps international connections!
So, I'd appreciate your dropping me a line about International T1
Internet connections you happened to know of and/or in charge of.
There is a few of them as far as I know. It'd be nice if you also
include the hardware (router/gateway types) and link level protocols
(cisco proprietary? ppp? etc.) used.
I'll summarize to comp.protocols.tcp-ip.
Btw, it was "rumored" that Hong Kong Telecom has verbally agreed to
donate (whatever it means) a free T1 Hongkong-Japan link (which at
today's satellite channel price-tag would cost some HK$400,000 or
US$50,000 per month, and that's only half circult) to Hong Kong
University of Science & Technology, to link up Hong Kong's academia
to the Internet. Don't know if it's gonna materialize, but looks
like the "T1 Trend" is taking momemtum -- and I'm surprised that
HK Telecom (previously the British Cable & Wireless) can do
something bravo like that... :-)
cheers,
/aaron.
cc: soc.culture.hongkong; & for schk'ers: the data transfer rate of
a T1 circuit is 1.544 megabits per second; the current HK-USA
bitnet link is 2400 bits per second (!).