99% of HK internet traffic goes thru uni being fought over?

Thu Nov 21 22:48:33 UTC 2019

Excerpt from http://www.hkix.net/hkix/Presentation/forum20100129.pdf (Page 3)

 Two Main Sites for resilience

•HKIX1: CUHK Campus in Shatin
•HKIX2: CITIC Tower in Central

 We are confident to say that because of HKIX, more than 99% intra--HK Internet traffic is kept within HK

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From: NANOG <nanog-bounces at nanog.org> On Behalf Of bzs at theworld.com
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2019 2:06 PM
To: John Sage <jsage at finchhaven.com>
Cc: nanog at nanog.org; bzs at theworld.com
Subject: Re: 99% of HK internet traffic goes thru uni being fought over?

On November 20, 2019 at 15:11 mailto:jsage at finchhaven.com (John Sage) wrote:

 > Then, as to Internet traffic, the probability that 99% of *all* Internet  > traffic to one global political entity (Hong Kong) goes through one  > single physical location that just happens to be a university currently  > experiencing student protests is ... yeah...

Interesting theory.

 >
 > I take it you know nothing about Internetworking?

Perhaps you should look at https://www.TheWorld.com/~bzs

 >
 > Or, again, Zerohedge?

Nope, knew nothing off-hand about them but wikipedia seems to concur that Zerohedge is likely a "Russian asset". Thanks.

Nonetheless it doesn't particularly mean that 99% of HK traffic
*doesn't* go thru that facility, not alone.

Broad comparisons to other national internet structures as you appeal to seems to be questionable in regards to a Special Administrative Region of The People's Republic of China, albeit officially ruled under "one system, two ways", HK being one of the regions (Macau being the other) which is ruled under the "second" way.

China can be unique in their communications policies and practices.

Which is why I asked hoping someone knew the facts rather than had an opinion about the particular source or some theory unifying all national internet infrastructures under some simple rule of thumb.

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        -Barry Shein

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