Technical Aspects of HKIX

• CUHK provides space (open racks), electricity, air-conditioning and manpower for coordination and operations.

• Ethernet coax initialy

• Upgraded to Ethernet switch in Dec 95

• Use BGP4

• Mandatory multilateral peering agreement (MLPA)

• Use Cisco 2501 as route server/route reflector

• Routing information distribution controlled by IP network address or Origin AS access lists in the route server

• Minimum speed: T1

• Two T3 links now

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