Economics of Regional Backbone

North

America

Japan

Korea

Circuit Cost for transferring 1KB from KR to US = 1

Circuit Cost for transferring 1KB from US to JP = 1

Circuit Cost for transferring 1KB from KR to JP = 1

1 + 1 > 1

Issues

Traffic to justify a direct link

Round-trip time : 200ms 50ms

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