> On 11 Dec 2020, at 16:02, Nick Hilliard <[email protected]> wrote: > > Stephen Wilcox wrote on 11/12/2020 14:22: >> There's no reason there should be - the UK terminates* cables from the US >> and nominally Africa already which are not part of the EU or dependent upon >> any UK EU law. > > At the moment this is true - most of the US-EU wet plant built in the > 1998-2003 time-frame terminated in the UK, but when Grace Hopper is completed > in 2022, it will only be the second americas-europe build with a direct span > to the UK in nearly 20 years.
Not sure I would agree with this. TAT-14 lands in Denmark Netherlands and France as well as the UK. When I used to work for a carrier we didn’t route European traffic via the UK. The same is true for AC-1. Both of these where the state of the art systems during the dotcom era. There IS a lot of traffic exchanged in the UK and some does pass through for all kind of reasons but real word traffic paths are more complicated than this, but yes with more wet capacity not even touching the UK then there will be more direct paths. I am just not sure how much “visible” traffic is really leaving the UK. - kurtis -
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