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

[Che-Hoo CHENG <chcheng () ieee org>]

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