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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> > On Nov 20, 2019, at 1:41 PM, [email protected] 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
>>
