RE: Carrier Options in Hong Kong

[David Guo via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>]

Eric, none of the carriers you mention in HK has local connection, other HK ISPs will route to US if they don’t peer 
with you.

Currently we are using NTT and Telstra, which has good connectivity in Asia except mainland China.

From: NANOG <nanog-bounces+david=xtom.com () nanog org> On Behalf Of Eric Dugas via NANOG
Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2021 3:12 AM
To: nanoguser99 <nanoguser99 () protonmail com>
Cc: nanog () nanog org
Subject: Re: Carrier Options in Hong Kong

I am in no way an expert in APAC but all of the IP carriers I have in NA are present in HK: Cogent, Tata, Telia, Zayo.

My guess is a good portion of the interconnections with other IP carriers, CDNs and such will be either in Singapore or 
Tokyo.

On Fri, Dec 17, 2021 at 1:56 PM nanoguser99 via NANOG <nanog () nanog org<mailto:nanog () nanog org>> wrote:
Nanog,

Currently my organization uses PCCW which we pay through the nose for and I'm looking to cut them.  This was put in 
place before me.  I was informed that PCCW is "the carrier" in Hong Kong but based on my analysis I'm not sure that's 
the case.  My analysis of carriers such as Lumen and Cogent put them on par with PCCW.  Pings to random IPs in HK are 
reasonable fast on all of them, same with pings to cloud providers.   Access to mainland is not a hard requirement but 
just to check they all had 300+ ms latency to known IPs in Shanghai and Tanjin.

I know some regions such as Korea or Dubai are monopolized where the wrong carrier takes you on a far away path to get 
a few blocks down the street.

I don't need anything special, just general DIA and good access to eyeballs and internet.  I just wanted to see 
people's opinions here as APAC connectivity can be tricky.

- Nanoguser99

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