Network costs plague Asian bourses

from ZDnetasia:

>SINGAPORE--Stock exchanges in Asia are opening up the floodgates to allow foreign companies to trade on their systems, but are increasingly hampered by network and connectivity costs to cope with the transactional growth, according to an Equinix executive.

Key to the growth of bourses in the region is the ability of each exchange's network to connect to other exchanges in the world, John Knuff, Equinix's general manager for global financial markets, said Thursday in an interview.