At 10:16 23/02/2006, Simon Lyall wrote:
According to this document less than 10% of Japanese traffic is international. See page 12 for that soundbite, but the rest of the document is quite interesting too.
http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0602/pdf/cho.pdf
It is from the lightning talks at the last NANOG.
The impact of fiber access to ISP backbones in .jp, by Kenjiro Cho, WIDE Project/IIJ
Good point. In fairness to Telecom I'm surprised Theresa didn't bring that up - and the same also applies to South Korea - which is often vaunted for their extremely fast and pervasive broadband connections, until you consider its not a fair comparison because only a small percentage of South Korea's traffic is international, (probably similar to Japan) compared to 90% for New Zealand, simply due to English vs non-English as the language in use. So strictly speaking you could only make a broadband comparision with English speaking countries who source most of their content from overseas...or at minimum check the national/international traffic ratios to see if they're comparable... Regards, Simon