% Hello Fellow Electronic Colleagues:
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% <looking around a room> Can anyone say Hawaii? 
Hawaii does have lots of fiber. Monetary costs for circuits between
Guam and Hawaii are not ignorable. Also, back-haul all the way to Hawaii for
an intra-Asia interconnect causes a significant increase in latency when
compared with a Guam-based interconnect. (No, I've never been to Guam and
I don't own any land or fiber there
Ran
rja@cisco.com
Hawaii does have lots of fiber. Monetary costs for circuits between
Guam and Hawaii are not ignorable. Also, back-haul all the way to Hawaii
for an intra-Asia interconnect causes a significant increase in latency
when compared with a Guam-based interconnect. (No, I've never been to
Guam and I don't own any land or fiber there
Adding to:
The cost of transiting bits beyond CONUS to the Pacific is still
quite significant. TA circuit costs come to mind in comparison. I can
remember it being NOT all too long ago, when a DS1 from HI to CA was
being priced roughly around US$56K/Mo.
For Intra-Asia applications.. Indeed, Hawaii would not be the
appropriate spot. However, when someone considers having to enable a
tie-in to CONUS from certain parts of the Pacific, Hawaii might appear
as a natural choice.
Ran
rja@cisco.com
All the best,
Robert.
ICICX.