Hi Janne, Any thoughts about Malaysia? The outfit I am working for on this right now already has manufacturing facilities there and it would be easier for them to do it in-country.
I would guess that probably everything from Kuala Lampur area is trunked via Singapore anyway? - mike On Jun 16, 2011, at 6:21 AM, Janne Snabb <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello from Cambodia. I am familiar with the situation in Cambodia > and some surrounding countries. > > On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Michael DeMan wrote: > >> Basically looking for tips on what cities/countries/locations >> have as much (mostly submarine cabling in this case?) fiber >> connectivity and redundancy. From there I can trim down where to >> begin looking specifically at data centers and colocation options. > > Hong Kong, Singapore (and Taiwan). > > Hong Kong is the best choice for some countries in the region: > countries such as Cambodia and Vietnam have their uplinks mostly > through Hong Kong. > > Singapore is the best choice for others: Thailand, Malaysia and > Indonesia have good connectivity to Singapore. > > Taiwan I would place as the 3rd option. > > No other realistic options exist in the region beyond that... US > west coast is often the best option if you are not prepared to spend > a lot of money (but check your upstream's peering with major SEA > providers first). > >> Also, if anybody offhand has any tips on political stability >> and/or the risk of some kind of unwanted censorship by a given >> country, that would be helpful as well. > > All countries within the region are unsafe when it comes to censorship. > Hong Kong is probably the only nearby place which does not openly > practice censorship currently, but I would not count on that as > it is just a (autonomous) province of China. > > -- > Janne Snabb / EPIPE Communications > [email protected] - http://epipe.com/
