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

[Bill Woodcock <woody () pch net>]

Thank you for the authoritative answer.   I think we can now consider the question closed. 
    
                -Bill


> On Nov 22, 2019, at 03:36, Che-Hoo CHENG <chcheng () ieee org> wrote:
>
> 
> Some clarifications:
>
> The 2 HKIX core sites (hosting the spine switches and the major leaf switches where most participants are connecting 
> to) are located within CUHK campus.  There are only 2 leaf switches of HKIX which are located at TKO area.
>
> CUHK Campus was heavily attacked by the Police before PolyU Campus was heavily attacked.  There was fear that the 
> attack would affect HKIX which, although not really handling 99% of HK Internet traffic, does carry up to 1.4Tbps of 
> Internet traffic at peak.
>
> Che-Hoo
> no longer with HKIX
>
>
> > On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 9:14 AM Bill Woodcock <woody () pch net> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > On Nov 20, 2019, at 1:41 PM, bzs () theworld com wrote:
> > > Thanks everyone for the replies. My conclusion is that no one here
> > > knows whether HKIX handles 99% of internet traffic for HK or not.
> >
> > That’s incorrect.  I’m here, and I know that:
> >
> > 1) HKIX does not handle anywhere near 99% of Hong Kong’s Internet traffic.
> >
> > 2) Much of HKIX is in TKO anyway, rather than up at the CUHK campus.
> >
> > 3) CUHK isn’t the university where the protests are anyway, that’s Hong Kong Polytechnic.
> >
> > 4) CUHK is way up in the New Territories. HK Polytechnic is in Tsim Sha Tsui.  TKO is way off in the east. These are 
> > all about as far apart as it’s possible to get in Hong Kong.
> >
> >                                 -Bill