On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 01:03:30AM -0400, grarpamp@gmail.com wrote 0.9K bytes in 20 lines about: : You might want to talk to VerneGlobal and the Icelandic chamber : of commerce/investment about that... : There are at least four cables, totaling maybe 10Tb. : Tata?/TeleGlobe?/GreenlandConnect, FarIce, DanIce, CanTat.
From what I heard, farice is the only cable carrying commercial traffic.
The others are for research/educational use only. The greenlandconnect that transits between canada, greenland, and iceland is either super lossy or broken because it's not deep enough for icebergs to clear it.
: The talk about Iceland is trending it as a low latency midpoint, : datacenter heaven of the finance and DR world.
This is sort of comical given the volcanic activity on Iceland throughout its history. However, the pending IMMI legislation may provide further incentive to host there as countries continue to censor the Internet in various ways. The Iceland National Police were not opposed to Tor once they understood what it is. See https://blog.torproject.org/blog/visit-iceland for some details.
Overall, my exit relay there was fine, it was the bandwidth costs that killed it. Paying ISK120 per month for the host with free incoming bandwidth but paying ISK10,000 for the outgoing bandwidth was just crazy.