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The peering links between the US and China, Korea, Japan, etcetera are congested. Hopefully, this will help reduce some of that congestion.


What makes you say that? "The Peering Links" is way to generic to be useful - hundreds of companies and networks operate "peering" (or transit, or transport) links between the US and Asia. To name a few: Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Cogent, Level3, NTT, HE.net, China Telecom/Unicom/Mobile, KDDI, Tata, Verizon, Korea Telecom, PCCW, LG, SingTel, Telstra, AT&T, CenturyLink, Bharti Airtel, and Softbank.

Regardless, that is more or less independent of this cable, which will be used for bulk data transfer by 2 private companies.


> ... this cable, which will be used for bulk data transfer by 2 private companies.

... and bulk collection by the NSA too, I'm sure. Hopefully Google is still encrypting their internal traffic. Facebook probably doesn't care.


How much of that is spam and DDOS attacks?




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