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I think Optus should get into the swing of some peering. I heard a few years ago they were peering with WAIX but in the end it turned out bad. Any future peering Optus?

1 Hung Lo writes...

Any future peering Optus?

Tier 1 providers don't 'peer', they sell bandwidth to customers.

Here's a petition you can sign - www.gopetition.com/online/19357.html.

haha thats funny.

1 Hung Lo writes...

Here's a petition you can sign

Singapore Telecommunications and its Australian subsidiary, Optus, have terminated the Singaporean carrier's Internet peering arrangement with the Western Australian Internet Association's WAIX exchange, citing "a global network consolidation plan".

There was never any peering arrangement between WAIX and Optus... maybe your petition should start with some facts?

Singapore Telecommunications had been transporting 10-15 Mbps of traffic direct beween Western Australia and Singapore, or just under 4TB per month.

And I'd love to know where they got that gem from? Optus have international peering points with Singtel... all of them are on the West Coast of the US. They've never had any other peering points... in Singapore or any other country. The arrangement was between Singtel and WAIX.

edit: that article refers to Singapore Telecommunications, not Optus. It only mentions Optus as a subsidiary of Singtel, Optus never played a role in whatever arrangement Singtel had with WAIX, and no Optusnet traffic would have traversed those peering links.

Jack.Daniels writes...

Optus have international peering points with Singtel... all of them are on the West Coast of the US. They've never had any other peering points... in Singapore or any other country.

I think you're talking about OptusNet there, as distinct from Optus... though obviously this distinction doesn't alter your point. Whatever connections Optus and SingTel have between WA and Asia would never have been used by OptusNet traffic, so the premise of the petition is indeed flawed.