Is direct communication possible between traffic exchange points?

Question

Computer networks

Is it possible that due to the presence of direct optics between, for example, UA IX and HK IX, the Horns and Hooves provider will not need to lay its own highway to access Hong Kong? Do I understand correctly that there is no connection between traffic exchangers, but it can be if the backbone provider X has entrances to UA IX, HK IX + the Moscow-Beijing highway and leases its backbone to "Horns and Hooves", and the traffic exchanger performs only one function - the absence of the need to establish a direct peering between the Horns and hooves and X?

Answer 1

cho 0_o. did you read it yourself?