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		briandear on Jan 9, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Building a Billion User Load Balancer [video] There's a major Asia-Pacific undersea cable connected to Taiwan, so Taiwan is a useful Asia-Pacific gateway.

mafribe on Jan 9, 2017 [–]

More precisely, Taiwan is well connected by direct cables to Japan, China, Philippines, Viet Nam, Malaysia, Thailand, Korea, Singapore and the US. As far as I'm aware Google owns a cable connecting Taiwan with Japan (part of [1]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FASTER_(cable_system)

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