7.5 Neutral Exchange Point

If we want to establish a new Internet provider outside the U.S., we will have to solve two basic communication problems.

The first problem is to establish a connection with America, i.e., we must give our clients access to the world’s Internet information sources. If we want to be an Internet provider in a geographically distant country, we will have to consider the great costs of transatlantic or transpacific connection lines. The solution could be to use the services of some of the international Internet providers. They already have running transatlantic or transpacific connection lines and you can connect to them. Initially this seems to be an acceptable solution. From the point of view of routing, the partner Internet providers run transit (built-in) autonomous systems (AS) through which we will be able to transfer our IP datagrams to various areas throughout the world.

We have an international connection now, but we must realize that we live in a specific...