Re: China’s Slow Transnational Network

[Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu>]

On 15/Mar/20 09:55, Pengxiong Zhu wrote:

> I know Caida has one paper on the congestion on Africa's IXPs substrate.

I can't think of a single IXP in Africa that is "congested".

Do you have more data?


> However, we did find Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa have better
> transnational performance than China,...

Not having great big firewalls tends to help :-).


> while the performance of Ghana and Egypt was worse than China, at
> least that's what we saw from the web4africa VPSes we brought.

While I can't speak to the national backbones of Ghana and Egypt, it
would be good to obtain multiple perspectives, just to be sure.


> Sorry I am a bit confused here. What do you mean by "these networks"?
> When you say "peering outside of China", who is peering who exactly?

I know about Chinese operators who will deliberately congest peering
ports to influence 3rd party network behaviour.

Mark.