99% of HK internet traffic goes thru uni being fought over?
Che-Hoo CHENG
chcheng at ieee.org
Fri Nov 22 11:28:34 UTC 2019
I didn't say 99% infra-HK Internet traffic *went through* HKIX. 😊
Che-Hoo
On Fri, Nov 22, 2019 at 9:41 AM Mahmutovic, Jas <Jas.Mahmutovic at spirent.com>
wrote:
> 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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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