via Ausnog: "Wholesale internet transit provider Vocus will create an internet peering exchange to greatly cut latency between Sydney and Auckland. The PacificIX exchange would go live "by the end of the year", Vocus (ASX: VOC) chief executive officer James Spenceley (pictured) told iTnews today. It would run out of the Equinix and Global Switch data centres in Sydney and from the Auckland Sky Tower and a "second [undisclosed] node" elsewhere in the NZ city." http://www.itnews.com.au/News/232330,vocus-to-cut-sydney-auckland-latency.aspx?eid=3&edate=20100916&utm_source=20100916_PM&utm_medium=newsletter -- Simon Lyall | Very Busy | Web: http://www.darkmere.gen.nz/ "To stay awake all night adds a day to your life" - Stilgar | eMT.