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 <chch...@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 <wo...@pch.net> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> > On Nov 20, 2019, at 1:41 PM, b...@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
>> 

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