The document discusses connectivity in the Asian internet market. It notes that connectivity has traditionally been led by local incumbents like NTT in Japan and China Telecom in China. Traffic routing between Asian networks has often been inefficient, requiring detours through other countries or even the US. However, connectivity is improving as networks like NTTcom establish more connections to other Asian carriers. The future of Asian internet connectivity will involve greater regional exchange points, lower IP transit pricing, and better performance to support growing regional content delivery and users.

1. Asian Internet
Connectivity, Evolution and the Future
Tom Paseka
BBIX BGP Party Dec 2014

2. Connectivity

3. Connectivity - Lead by Incumbents
Asian Internet landscape lead by a number
of Local Incumbents
• NTT (Japan)
• PCCW (Hong Kong)
• China Telecom / China Unicom (China)
• TATA (India)
Some Other Regional Incumbents
• Korea Telecom (Korea)
• Telekom Malaysia (Malaysia)
• PLDT (Philippines)
• Hinet (Taiwan)
• SingTel (Singapore)
Other Notable Networks
• Pacnet
• Telstra
• KDDI
• SoftBank
• Global Cloud Exchange

4. Connectivity
• Many of the incumbents don’t interconnect or co-operate well
• Traffic is routed poorly
• Some traffic will trombone in other Asian countries
• Eg. Traffic between networks in Singapore might go via Japan
• Some traffic will even trombone via USA
• Regional Connectivity needs to change

5. Connectivity
• This is an old story
• European networks evolved away from Exchanging traffic in US
• This helped grow European based Exchange Points!
• Now some of the biggest in the world
• Changed the way that content was delivered

6. “The Old Ways” - Content Delivery

7. “The Old Ways” - Content Delivery

8. Asian Internet

9. Asian Internet
• But, the internet in Asia is a little bit different
• Different economies, thousands of miles apart, over oceans
• Compared to Europe where different economies are tens of miles
apart.
• Content is often regionalized, because of language

10. Language based Regionalization
• Hong Kong Produces a lot
of popular TV content
• But its only in
Cantonese Language
廣東話 / 粵語
• Spreads to Cantonese speaking
regions and others with translation
• Has been largely by traditional media
• Or through P2P Software. Internet medium is lacking

11. Language based Regionalization
• Same situation with Japanese, Korean and other Asian languages and
content
• Changes as more content is being brought to the internet and onto CDNs
• Connectivity will need to change to grow with demand and changing
platforms

12. Growth of Large Hosts
• Large hosts growing Datacenters
in region
• More apps, platforms moving
into Asia
• Networks need to grow reach
for performance
• Happiness of users grows with better
performance too J

13. Asian Internet
• More content will come to the region.
• Netflix announced launch in Australia, is Asia next?
• In North America, Netflix accounts for around 30% of Internet
traffic
• More regional content to come, but will the networks be ready
for it?

14. Asian Internet
• Is getting better!
• NTTcom (AS2914) has more connections with other carriers than
before (eg. Pacnet, PCCW, TATA).
• Still lacking some connectivity between the carriers, but
• Asian network is becoming less fragmented.
• Better interconnection is needed for content still

15. Future

16. Future of Asian Internet
• Even better regional connectivity
• Growth of Exchange Points
• Most markets (Singapore, Hong Kong, Korea) only have a single
viable internet exchange points
• Open to new entrants for diversity (BBIX Expanding to Singapore
and Hong Kong)
• Better reach for regional content, and local peering!

17. Future of Asian Internet
• Continued drop in IP Transit pricing
• New entrants to the market, overtaking dominant or
incumbent leaders
• Better connectivity and happy users!

18. A little about CloudFlare

19. Network Map

20. Who are we?

21. How does CloudFlare Work?
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installations.

22. IPv6 Gateway
With the Internet's explosive growth and the number of on-net
devices closing in on IPv4's maximum capacity,
CloudFlare now offers an automatic IPv6 gateway seamlessly
bridging the IPv4 and IPv6 networks.
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23. Questions?

24. Thank you