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OCR: NETWORK HUB COST COMPARISON Fokvo Seoul @ many Los Angeles Hong Kong Toryo nubr $66,522 connection cost per month for a 64kbps WAN Los Angeles tub: 347,847 connection Singapore cost per month for a 64kbps WAN Melbourne Figure 2. Although it might seem logical to choose an Asian city as a hub for an Asian network, the actual cost of those links proves otherwise. In this example, it would cost $60,522 per month to connect the cities indicated via Tokyo and $47,847 to use distant Los Angeles as the network hub --- a difference of 26 percent.