I do understand that you mean well, but do realize that interconnection between the rest of the world and the networks controlled by the Chinese government is a very, very sensitive and often touchy subject. It's also generally true that networks aren't going to disclose terms of commercial relationships on a public mailing list. ( By and large those terms aren't likely to be disclosed privately either. :) )
On Wed, Apr 1, 2020 at 3:28 PM Pengxiong Zhu <pzhu...@ucr.edu> wrote: > Hi folks, > > We got plenty of positive responses in our last email regarding China's > slow transnational network. Many are suggesting it is likely influenced by > commercial decisions instead of censorship. It seems like the three Chinese > ISPs don't really have enough peering internationally in Asia, and they > have very strong bargaining power when it comes to peering. > > Some suggest the cost of moving data to China is way lower if an ISP peers > with US/European ISPs than directly with the Chinese ISPs. We assume the > reason why those US/European ISPs offer cheaper prices is that they have > settlement-free peering with Chinese ISPs. However, the "free-tier" > capacity is simply not enough to handle the demand -- the US/European ISPs > now have way more traffic going into China, thus saturating the link and > causing congestion. > > So we are wondering, do the Tier-1 US/European ISPs really have > settlement-free peering with Chinese ISPs? If we want to do paid peering > directly with the Chinese ISPs or purchase the full/partial transit, what > is the price range? > > From the BGP information, we know some of the peers of AS4134 (the biggest > one) are: > - Telia Carrier(AS1299) > - Cogent Communications(AS174) > - NTT Communications (America)(AS2914) > - Level3(AS3356) > - Tata Communications(America) Inc (AS6453) > - Verizon Business/UUnet(AS701) > - Zayo Bandwidth(AS6461) > - AT&T Services, Inc.(AS7018) > - GTT Communications Inc.(AS3257) > - Comcast Cable Communications, LLC(AS7922) > > It would be much appreciated if the operators of any such networks can > give chime in. Thanks! > > Regards, > Pengxiong Zhu > Department of Computer Science and Engineering > University of California, Riverside >
