Scheduled Maintenance for HKIX Route Server 2 (IPv6 on RS2) on 10-Mar-2024 (Sunday)

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that MT Networks LLC have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Belgacom International Carrier Services, CTCSCI TECH LIMITED, Fortinet International, Inc., HARDCORE COMMUNICATION CO., LIMITED and Pan-Lian Technology Co., Limited have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

Scheduled Maintenance for HKIX Route Server 2 (IPv4 and IPv6 on RS2) on 14-Jan-2024 (Sunday) & HKIX Route Server 1 (IPv4 and IPv6 on RS1) on 28-Jan-2024 (Sunday)

M-Root DNS Root Server Announcement

The m.root-servers.net DNS root name server was attached to the HKIX in Dec, 2023. This local root server was maintained jointly by WIDE Project and Japan Registry Services Co., Ltd. (JPRS), a company running .JP ccTLD registry and provides nameserver service to local community of operators. For details, please click here.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Azonne Limited and Dagupan Urban Satellite Vision, Inc. have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Equinix (Hong Kong) Enterprises Limited have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Nanyang Telecom and XNNET LLC have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Edge Cloud (HK) Network Technology Co., Limited , GNET INC. and WIDE Project have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

Scheduled Maintenance for HKIX IPv6 Route Server 1 on 17-Sep-2023 (Sunday) & HKIX IPv6 Route Server 2 on 24-Sep-2023 (Sunday)

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that CABLE LINK & HOLDINGS CORPORATION and Landui Cloud Computing (HK) Limited have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that LinkChina Telecom Global Limited and Octopus Web Services Limited have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Asia Satellite Telecommunications Company Limited and PT. Internet Madju Abada Milenindo have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Layerstack Limited and United Information Highway Co., LTD have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that TRANSWORLD ASSOCIATES PVT. LTD. have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Fifth Dog Network Limited and Hytron Network Services Limited have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that PT iForte Global Internet and Radware LTD. have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that ACEVILLE PTE.LTD and Zoom Video Communications, Inc have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

Route Prefix Advertisement Control by Standard and Large BGP Community

With immediate effect, HKIX route servers support route prefix advertisement control by standard and large BGP community.

HKIX participants can use below standard BGP community to control BGP prefix advertisement, targets for 2-Byte AS number ($Peer-AS).

- If there is none of BGP community, a prefix will be sent to all by default.

- Please use either Standard BGP Community or Large BGP Community for route prefix advertisement control, but do not use both at the same time.

- Please set only one type of above BGP community, while $Peer-AS can be multiple (for example 4635:65501 & 4635:65502 to announce a prefix only to AS65501 and AS65502, or 0:65501 & 0:65502 to announce a prefix to all but not to AS65501 and AS65502).

HKIX participants can use below large BGP community to control BGP prefix advertisement, targets for 4-Byte and 2-Byte AS number ($Peer-AS).

- If there is none of BGP community, a prefix will be sent to all by default.

- Please use either Standard BGP Community or Large BGP Community for route prefix advertisement control, but do not use both at the same time.

- Please set only one type of above BGP community, while $Peer-AS can be multiple (for example 4635:1:234567 & 4635:1:65501 to announce a prefix only to AS234567 and AS65501, or 4635:0:234567 & 4635:0:65501 to announce a prefix to all but not to AS234567 and AS65501).

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Mejiro Network Limited and Royal Cablevision Corporation have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

Decommission of HKIX Connections and the Old Switches at HKIX1 by 30 Jun 2024

HKIX has deployed a new core site (HKIX1c) to enhance the reliability and scalability of HKIX. This new core site is located on Hong Kong Island, running in active-active mode with independent power grid of HKIX1b at CUHK (in New Territories) and equipped with next-generation switches and state-of-art technology for maximum resilience. For more information about the new HKIX architecture, you may refer to our network diagram at https://www.hkix.net/hkix/hkixdiag.htm

HKIX1b and HKIX1c will be the two core sites of HKIX which provide full resilience of core and access switches and route servers for participants to connect. In order to enjoy the benefits fully, all HKIX connections at HKIX1 will be migrated to HKIX1c and the old switches at HKIX1 will be decommissioned by 30 Jun 2024.

While HKIX will assist and assign new ports at HKIX1c for the migration, HKIX participant has to contact your local loop (FTNS) provider for the local loop relocation. HKIX will NOT be responsible for any relocation or upgrade charges associated with your FTNS providers or any other parties. Please contact your FTNS providers for the local loop relocation arrangement.

HKIX Team will further contact you by email for the migration steps and necessary arrangement if you have HKIX connection(s) at HKIX1.

You are encouraged to start the migration as soon as possible to enjoy the full benefits of new switches earlier and to avoid last-minute rush.

Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at provision@hkix.net

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that PPIP International Ltd have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

Scheduled Maintenance for HKIX Route Server 2 (IPv4 and IPv6 on RS2) on 9-Oct-2022 (Sunday) & HKIX Route Server 1 (IPv4 and IPv6 on RS1) on 23-Oct-2022 (Sunday)

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Advanced Wireless Network Co.Ltd, Greypanel Pte Ltd, Pacswitch Globe Telecom Limited and STARCLOUD GLOBAL PTE LTD. have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Advanced Wireless Network Co.Ltd and Akari Networks Limited have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Clear Path Networks, Inc., Pittqiao Network Information Co., Ltd and Shenzhen lesuyun Network Technology Co., Ltd have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Digital HK Kin Chuen Limited and NEROCLOUD LTD have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Advanced Information Company Limited, Bravo M Limited, SiChuan XunYou Network Technologe Limit, Co.  , Superclouds Limited and UCLOUD INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (HK) LIMITED have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that NETEASE (HONG KONG ) LIMITED and Nexet Limited have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that ACORUS NETWORKS SAS, Bytedance Inc. and Nearoute Limited have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

Scheduled Maintenance for HKIX IPv4 Route Server 2 on 13-Feb-2022 (Sunday) & IPv4 Route Server 1 on 20-Feb-2022 (Sunday)

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that China Unicom(Hong Kong) Operations Limited have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that MOBICOM NETWORKS LLC have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

Relocation of HKIX Route Server 1 (IPv4 and IPv6 on RS1) from HKIX1 to HKIX1c

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that APNIC and Vocom International Telecommunication Inc have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Akari Networks Limited, Anyun Internet Technology (Hk) Co., Limited, Hungtak International Network Limited, Pt. Iforte Solusi Infotek, Sri Lanka Telecom Plc, Superclouds Limited, Tcloudnet, Inc have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

Production of HKIX New Core Site (HKIX1c)

In order to enhance the reliability and scalability of HKIX to cater for the ever-growing demands from the local as well as the regional and global Internet industry players for more stable and higher-speed interconnection services, HKIX has established a new core site and adopted the VXLAN EVPN Architecture with the following characteristics:

• The new core site HKIX1c is located on Hong Kong Island with independent power grid of core sites of HKIX1 and HKIX1b
• All core sites contain Core Switches and Access Switches interconnected by multiple 100GE/400GE links
• All sites are running in Active-Active mode
• Access Switches at HKIX1, HKIX1b and HKIX1c can serve connections of GE/10GE/100GE and 400GE (HKIX1b & HKIX1c) coming soon from participants
• All sites together provide power resilience, chassis resilience as well as site resilience
• The architecture is highly scalable and can support more satellite sites and resellers outside of CUHK campus

Starting from 10 Aug 2021, the new core site HKIX1c is in production and ready for accepting connections from HKIX participants. Participants are encouraged to take advantage of the multi-core architecture by connecting to all core sites for maximum resilience.

For details about the new core site and our services, please contact us at info [@] hkix.net.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Alpha Networks Solution, Brother Internet Technologies Co.,Ltd, PT Parsaoran Global Datatrans and Saigontourist Cable Tv Company Limited have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Agilenaas Global Service Co., Limited, DCTV CABLE NETWORK BROADBAND SERVICES, INC., Kirino LLC, Marvel-Link Limited, Sunday Network (Hong Kong) Ltd and XNNET LLC have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that China Telecom Global Limited, Dataweb Global Group B.V. and ONEQODE ASSETS PTY LTD have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Carl International Information Ltd., ETL Company Limited and Nathosts Limited have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that China Mobile International Limited, Kingviews Solutions (Hong Kong) Limited and Philippine Global Communications,Inc. have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

Scheduled Maintenance for HKIX IPv4 Route Server 2 on 25-Apr-2021 (Sunday) & IPv4 Route Server 1 on 9-May-2021 (Sunday)

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that DITO Telecommunity Corporation have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

HKIX is now a member of the Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS)

We are pleased to announce that HKIX is now a member of the Mutually Agreed Norms for Routing Security (MANRS) initiative which is supported by the Internet Society on September 25, 2020. In view of making the global routing infrastructure more robust and secure, HKIX continues to promote good practices in routing security by implementing various actions required by MANRS. Please refer here for more details.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Aperture Science Limited, ANEXIA Internetdienstleistungs GmbH, DDoS-Guard LTD and Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Agotoz HK Limited, AZURE TECHNOLOGY CO.,LIMITED, HK KWAIFONG GROUP LIMITED, Stacks Inc, TELECOM CAMBODIA and ULTRA KINGS LIMITED have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Hong Kong BeeCloud System Technology Services Limited, Jane Street Asia Limited and NEROCLOUD LTD have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that CERNET, Enjoyvc Cloud Group Limited, Sky Digital Co., Ltd. and Subspace Communication LLC have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Netskope, Internet Keeper Global (Group) Co., Limited have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Ping Global Limited, Roblox Corporation, have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that eBay , Inc., ShenZhen Sunrise Technology Co.,Ltd., TAOBAO HONG KONG LIMITED have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that West263 International Limited, Gold Sunshine International Ltd., I3D.net B.V., Oceanblue Cloud Technology Limited, HONG KONG COMMUNICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CO.,LIMITED have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

HKIX supporting of RPKI at HKIX Route Servers

Please note that HKIX will support RPKI at HKIX Route Servers in order to enhance the security of HKIX routing.

The Effective Date of supporting RPKI at HKIX Route Servers
IPv6: 07-June-2020 (Sunday)
IPv4: 21-June-2020 (Sunday)

You can check the status of your prefix in the HKIX Looking Glass
If your prefix is tagged with BGP community (4635:65023), that means your prefix is an Invalid prefix after the RPKI validation and HKIX Route Servers rejected your prefix.

Solution of solving the Invalid prefix(es):
Please contact the Origin AS company of the prefix(es) to confirm the Origin AS number of the ROA and/or the max length value of the ROA.

For the details of HKIX RPKI deployment, please visit the route policy page:
https://www.hkix.net/hkix/route-policy.htm

End-of-support of AS filtering on HKIX IPv4 route servers

To avoid improper route announcement and for enhancement of routing security, HKIX will cease the support of AS filtering on HKIX IPv4 route servers starting from 1-July-2020.

The existing participants using AS numbers for filtering should consider migrating to Internet Routing Registry OR IP address filtering on HKIX route servers. HKIX will no longer support update of origin AS numbers for AS filtering on 1-July-2020 and afterwards. HKIX participants may use one of the following methods for updating route announcement on HKIX route servers.

Method 1: Internet Routing Registry (IRR) filtering

(highly recommended) HKIX participants must register their AS-SET on Internet Routing Registry. HKIX will look up the IP address filtering for announcement and create the IPv4 access filter on HKIX route servers automatically with the AS-SET provided. It is an automatic process and there is no need to submit the filter update at HKIX filter update agent.

Method 2: IP address filtering

(not recommended) For each new announcement, HKIX participant will need to submit the IP address for update of filtering via the HKIX filter update agent and wait to confirm and approval for the request of filter update on HKIX route servers after filter submission.

If you have any questions or want to schedule for the migration, please feel free to contact HKIX Provision team at provision [@] hkix.net.

Thank you for your attention.

HKIX Team

Scheduled Maintenance on HKIX Route Server 1 (RS1) and Route Server 2 (RS2)

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Eons Data Communications Limited, Tianhai InfoTech, Mega TrueNET Communication Co.,Ltd, Netflix Inc, rixCloud Limited, and SK Broadband Co Ltd have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that PT. MEDIA NUSANTARA DATA GLOBAL, COMMRUN COMMUNICATION SERVICE(HONGKONG) CO., LIMITED and CMC TELECOMMUNICATION INFRASTRUCTURE CORPORATION have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Globalreach eBusiness Networks, Inc, SHUANGYU COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LIMITED and Hong Kong Megalayer Technology Co., ltd have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Dream Power Technology Limited and Wuhan LSHIY Network Technology Co., Ltd. has been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that ICDSoft Ltd. has been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

Scheduled Maintenance for HKIX IPv6 Route Server 2 on 12-Jan-2020 (Sunday) & IPv6 Route Server 1 on 19-Jan-2020 (Sunday)

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Digital Energy Technologies Ltd., Telekomunikasi Indonesia International (Hongkong) Ltd, HONG KONG BRIDGE INFO-TECH LIMITED, DctecH Microservices Incorporated has been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that VNPT-Net, Beijing Suzi Technology Co., Ltd., SUNIWAY GROUP LIMITED and Smart Axiata Co., Ltd. has been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Chubu Telecommunications Co.,Inc., SONDERCLOUD LIMITED and BIGO TECHNOLOGY PTE. LTD. has been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that HONGKONG DRAGON-NET INTERNATIONAL CO., LIMITED, Sunbridge Worldwide Ltd and Xiamen Billy Network Co., Ltd. have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that CacheNetworks, LLC and Indiana University / TransPAC have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

Scheduled Maintenance for HKIX Route Server 2 on 18-Aug-2019 (Sunday) & Route Server 1 on 25-Aug-2019 (Sunday)

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that XINYUAN INTERCONNECT (HONG KONG) LIMITED, Convergenze S.p.A., Trivago Hong Kong Ltd., BigHub Co., Ltd. and AresFlare Network Limited have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Access Solutions Limited, ANSON NETWORK LIMITED, ASLINE LIMITED, Tata Communications (Hong Kong) Limited, Cybergate Limited and XLC Global Limited have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that NOVA Technology Development (Hong Kong) Limited, XINYUAN INTERCONNECT (HONG KONG) LIMITED have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Cambodian SingMeng Telemedia Co., Ltd, QUANTIL NETWORKS INC., PT. MEGA AKSES PERSADA, iotum Global Holdings Inc. and International Communication Instrument Co., Limited have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Verizon Hong Kong Limited , XIAOZHIYUN L.L.C and BigHub Co., Ltd have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Today Communication Co.,Ltd and Fusion Media Limited have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that MYTEK TRADING PTY LTD, IBOSS, INC., TISP LIMITED, xTom Hong Kong Limited, ULTRA KINGS LIMITED, Guangzhou Sunhongs Corp.,Ltd., Rich Top EC Limited and CONVERGE ICT SOLUTION INC have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that South China Telecommunications (HK) Limited, Gigabit Solution Limited, Kingsoft Cloud Corporation Limited, PT Jala Lintas Media, China Mobile Hong Kong Company Limited and Dreamscape Networks International Pte Ltd have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Anpple Tech Enterprise , WiCAM Corporation, Co. Ltd. and RADIUS TELECOMS, INC. have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

BGP Sessions with HKIX Route Server 2 Found Flapping started from 0950 HKT, 13 Oct 2018

HKIX encountered some BGP sessions were flapping on RS2 started from 0950 HKT, 13 Oct 2018. Meanwhile, BGP sessions with RS1 were normal and HKIX traffic was not being affected. We are checking on the issue and will keep you posted for any updates.

Update 1:

RS2 was resumed normal at 1445 HKT, 13 Oct 2018

It's suspected the flapping of BGP was caused by software bug issue. A workaround has been implemented. The case has been escalated to equipment vendor for further investigation.

Thanks for your attention.

HKIX NOC

Scheduled Maintenance for one of HKIX1 switch on 4-Nov-2018 (Sunday)

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that West Kowloon Cultural District Authority, Total Information Management Corporation, China Broadband Communications (Hong Kong) Co.,Limited and PJSC “MTS” have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Shin Cheng of Digital Co., Ltd. , Shanghai Huajuan Information Technology Co., Ltd , DMIT Inc. , Adcdata limited and Cloud Net Technologies Ltd have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Colt Technology Services Limited, Guangdong Cloudbase Technology Co., Ltd, South East Asia Telecom Group and Hong Kong Open Exchange have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Pacswitch Globe Telecom Limited and Viettel (Cambodia) Pte. Ltd have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

Peering Asia 2.0 in Hong Kong

We are pleased to announce that Peering Asia 2.0 will be held in Hong Kong from 24th to 25th October 2018 by HKIX and HKNOG. It is an open and neutral event for promotion of Internet peering in Asia Pacific regions. Please refer to the Peering Asia 2.0 site for more information.


For sponsorship package, please visit Peering Asia 2.0 Sponsorship Package.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Webex Communications, Cato Networks and Amarutu Technology Ltd. have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that CNSERVERS LLC has been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

BGP Sessions with HKIX Route Server 1 Found Flapping started from 0600 HKT, 27 Apr 2018

HKIX Scheduled Maintenance at Mega iAdvantage on May 7, 2018 14:00-18:00 (UTC +8)

Date: May 7 2018 (Mon)

Location: 32/F, Mega-iAdvantage

Time: 14:00 – 18:00 (HK Time UTC +8)

Impact: All HKIX connections at Mega-I 32/F will be affected during the maintenance window, downtime will be within 15 minutes in normal situation

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that VNPT International , GY Consultancy Group Inc. and Power Line (HK) Co., Limited have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

Route Prefix Advertisement Control by BGP Community

With immediate effect, HKIX route servers support route prefix advertisement control by standard BGP community. HKIX participants can use below standard BGP community to control BGP prefix advertisement, targets for 2-Byte AS number ($Peer-AS).

Send prefix to all                         4635:4635
Send prefix to $Peer-AS only     4635:$Peer-AS
Do not send prefix to all              0:4635
Do not send prefix to $Peer-AS  0:$Peer-AS

- If there is none of above BGP community, a prefix will be sent to all by default.
- Please set only one type of above BGP community, while $Peer-AS can be multiple (for example 4635:65501 & 4635:65502 to announce a prefix only to AS65501 and AS65502, or 0:65501 & 0:65502 to announce a prefix to all but not to AS 65501 and AS65002).

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that RETN (Hong Kong) Limited and Schneider Electric have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Cloud Discovery Limited have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Superloop (Hong Kong), TOT, LUCKY TONE and PJSC VimpelCom have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

Scheduled Maintenance for HKIX Route Server 2 on 3-Dec-2017 (Sunday) & Route Server 1 on 10-Dec-2017 (Sunday)

Date:       HKIX Route Server 2 on 3-Dec-2017 (Sunday) & Route Server 1 on 10-Dec-2017 (Sunday)
Time Window:  0200 - 0800 HKT (UTC +8)
Maintenance:  Planned maintenance on HKIX Route Servers
Impact: 
There will be no impact to HKIX participants which have BGP sessions with both route servers RS1 (123.255.88.1/21 & 2001:7FA:0:1::CA28:A101/64) and RS2 (123.255.88.2/21 & 2001:7FA:0:1::CA28:A102/64). During the maintenance, your BGP sessions with one RS will be down but your BGP sessions with the another route server will NOT be affected and the multi-lateral peering can still be maintained.

If you have not set up BGP sessions with both RS1 and RS2, you should do it ASAP for better resilience.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Golden Frog, GmbH and PT Dwi Tunggal Putra have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that ITACE International Limited have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Chief Telecom Inc., Level 3 Communications Hong Kong Limited , PT Multidata Rancana Prima and PT Cyberindo Aditama have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Freecomm Hong Kong Limited, HONG KONG PING NETWORK LIMITED and First Cagayan Converge Data Center, Inc have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that NORDUnet A/S and CNS KBT CO.,LTD have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Shenzhen OneThing Technologies Co., Ltd., K-Opticom Corporation and G-Core labs S.A. have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

Scheduled Maintenance for HKIX1b & HKIX2 switches on 11-Jun-2017 (Sunday) and HKIX1 switches on 18-Jun-2017 (Sunday)

Date: HKIX1b & HKIX2 on 11-Jun-2017 (Sunday) & HKIX1 on 18-Jun-2017 (Sunday)
Time: 02:00 - 08:00 (HK Time UTC +8)
Maintenance: Planned OS Upgrade on HKIX switches
Impact: OS Upgrade on HKIX Switches
HKIX will perform OS upgrade on HKIX switches and reload the Ethernet Modules one by one. You may experience up/down events on your HKIX link(s) within 30 minutes during the module startup. In normal situation, if you have multiple LACP links to HKIX, the links should be connected to different Ethernet Modules and the traffic will be forwarded by the rest of LACP links on the same switch.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that LeCloud Computing Company Limited have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

HKIX Scheduled Maintenance at Mega iAdvantage on May 10, 2017 14:00-17:00 (UTC +8)

Date: May 10 2017(Wed)
Location: 32/F, Mega-iAdvantage
Time: 14:00 – 17:00 (HK Time UTC +8)
Impact: All HKIX connections at Mega-I 32/F will be affected during the maintenance window, downtime will be within 15 minutes in normal situation

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Amazon, Connectivity I.T. Pty Ltd and Continent 8 Technologies have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that CN CARE CYBER CLOUD LTD, LinkChina Telecom Global Limited, Multibyte Info Technology Limited and Virtutel Pty Ltd have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

3 New HKIX Satellite Sites

HKIX is pleased to announce that 3 new satellite sites will be established in collaboration with 3 commercial data centres in the coming 3 months in addition to the existing HKIX2 site.  Below is the full list of all 4 satellite sites and the relevant collaborators:

•      HKIX2 site: CITIC Telecom International @Kwai Chung ( existing )
•      HKIX3 site: SUNeVision/iAdvantage @Fo Tan ( new )
•      HKIX4 site: NTT Com Asia @TKO ( new )
•      HKIX5 site: KDDI/Telehouse/HKCOLO.NET @TKO ( new )

HKIX access switches are to be co-located at all these satellite sites which provide the same layer-2 connectivity as the core HKIX1 and HKIX1b site so that HKIX participants can connect to HKIX more easily and at a lower cost.  With these, HKIX community will expand further and HKIX participants can make interconnections among themselves in a more cost-effective and efficient way.  If you are interested in co-locating at and connecting to any of these 4 satellite sites, please email to “order AT hkix.net” for details.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that CapitalOnline Data Service Co. Ltd, DOSarrest Internet Security Limited, Dropbox Ireland Limited, and Servers.com Asia Limited have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Advanced Science and Technology Institute , Asia Pacific Telecom Co., Ltd., Dimension Network & Communication Ltd. , SOFTNET Informacijske infrastrukture d.o.o. , Viewqwest Pte Ltd. , Vocational Training Council have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that DingFengXinHui (Hong Kong) Technology Limited have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Anchnet Network Technology Co Ltd., Aquoz Solutions Inc., BT Hong Kong Limited, Consultancy Pte Ltd., Hyperconnezion Limited and Public Joint Stock Company "Rostelecom" (PJSC) have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Cambodian Supreme Telecommunication Media Group Co., Ltd, M1 Limited and Twowin Co., Limited have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that ACME Communications Limited have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

Dear HKIX Participants,

07:15 - 11:25 (HKT UTC+8)
HKIX is experiencing power problem at HKIX1b site and so connections to HKIX1b and BGP sessions with RS2 are being affected which covers around 37% of all HKIX connections.
Nevertheless, connections to HKIX1/HKIX2/HKIX-R&E and BGP sessions with RS1 are normal.
We are working with the related party to fix the power problem but since typhoon signal #8 is still in effect in Hong Kong, it may take longer time for the recovery.

11:25 (HKT UTC+8)
Power of HKIX1b is resumed, connections to HKIX1b and BGP sessions with RS2 are back to normal.

Sorry for the inconvenienced caused.

Regards,
HKIX NOC

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Internet Harbour International Company Limited and PGAS Telecommunications International PTE LTD have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

Scheduled Maintenance for HKIX2 switch on 14-Aug-2016 (Sunday)

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that LeaseWeb Network B.V. have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

Dear HKIX Participants,

Please note that HKIX RS1 had problem around 12:25 to 12:55 (HKT) on 10/June/2016.
For HKIX peers forming BGP peering with both RS1 and RS2, there was no impact.

Regards,
HKIX Team.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that MyRepublic Ltd., OFIDC and Viking Telecom Limited have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Korea Advanced Research Network and NexLogic Telecommunications Network Inc. have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

11 Apr 2016

HKIX Finding for the Incident on 9 April 2016

After further investigation, we found one ISP (not HKIX participant) advertised a more specific route 123.255.88.0/22 (HKIX peering LAN) via its upstream provider to the global Internet.  We have applied BGP filters on HKIX route servers so the improper route did not affect RS1 and RS2. However, many ISP routers learned this route from their upstream providers and used this improper route to HKIX.  As a result, their BGP sessions with multi-lateral / bi-lateral peering to HKIX was interrupted due to 123.255.88.0/22 was NOT routable to the Internet.

Regarding proxy ARP, it seems some HKIX participant routers would respond ARP request on 123.255.88.0/21 if they learned a specific route (i.e. 123.255.88.0/22) from other interfaces.  May we take this opportunity to remind all HKIX participants again to ensure that proxy ARP is DISABLED on your router interfaces at all times.

To prevent improper routes receiving by your routers, it is suggested ALL HKIX participants to filter out 123.255.88.0 – 123.255.95.255 (8 Class C) from your inbound and outbound BGP because this network is supposed for HKIX Peering LAN and should NOT routable to the global Internet.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Switch Communications Inc. have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that CityLink Corporation Ltd, Gemnet LLC, HTC INTERNATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION JSC, PT.APLIKANUSA LINTASARTA and Twitch Interactive,inc have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

Scheduled Maintenance for HKIX Route Servers on 10-Jan-2016 (Sunday) & 24-Jan-2016 (Sunday)

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Arkadin and Gateway Technology Development Company Limited have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participant connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that MTEL TELECOMMUNICATION COMPANY LIMITED has been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about MTEL TELECOMMUNICATION COMPANY LIMITED.

Scheduled Maintenance for HKIX switches on 11-Oct-2015 (Sunday) & 25-Oct-2015 (Sunday)

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that IPS Inc., ISL HK LIMITED, SpeedCast Limited and Zscaler have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

Decommission of HKIX1 Old Switch on June 30, 2015

Please be reminded HKIX will decommission the Old switch at HKIX1 on June 30, 2015. If you have GE connection(s) which is/are not migrated to the new switches, your services will be affected. For details, please refer to our announcement on 30 Jun 2014 in http://www.hkix.net/hkix/announce.htm

Date: June 30 2015 (Tue)
Location: HKIX1
Impact: HKIX will shut down the Old switch at HKIX1 and all connections to the Old switch will be disconnected.

Connectivity issue on some HKIX connections on 29 May, 2015

It is found that connectivity of some participants' connections were lost at around 07:50 - 08:02 & 09:42 - 14:23 HKT (UTC+8) and the connections had been resumed by around 14:23 HKT (UTC+8). Those connections are located on the same line card. The problem was reported to the equipment vendor who was urged to resolve it as soon as possible. We'll keep HKIX participants notified of update on this issue. We are sorry for inconvenience caused.

Scheduled Maintenance for HKIX switches at HKIX1 and Route Server 2 (RS2) Upgrade

Date: 31-May-2015 (Sunday)

Time Window: 0500 - 0800 HKT (UTC +8)

RS2 IPv4 address: 202.40.161.2/23
RS2 IPv6 address: 2001:7FA:0:1::CA28:A102/64

Firmware Upgrade of HKIX Switches at HKIX1

Time: 0500 - 0700 HKT (UTC +8)
Impact:

HKIX will perform firmware upgrade on HKIX1 switches and reload the Ethernet modules one by one. You may experience up/down events on your HKIX link(s) within 30 minutes during the module startup. In normal situation, if you have multiple LACP links to HKIX, the links should be connected to different Ethernet modules and the traffic will be forwarded by the rest of LACP links on the same switch. Note that HKIX connections at HKIX1b will NOT be affected by this upgrade.

Route Server 2 (RS2) Upgrade

Time: 0700 - 0800 HKT (UTC +8)
Impact:

There will be no impact to HKIX participants which have BGP sessions with both route servers RS1 and RS2. During the upgrade, your BGP sessions with RS2 will be down but your BGP sessions with the other route server RS1 (202.40.161.1/23 & 2001:7FA:0:1::CA28:A101/64) will NOT be affected and the multi-lateral peering can still be maintained.

If you have not set up BGP sessions with both RS1 and RS2, you should do it ASAP for better resilience.

Please kindly note that HKIX will carry out network switch maintenance at the Mega-I 32/F on Apr 30, 2015 with the following details:

Date                        : Apr 30 2015(Thur)
Location                  : 32/F, Mega-iAdvantage
Time                        : 16:00 – 16:30 (HK Time UTC +8)
Impact                     : All HKIX connections at Mega-I 32/F will be affected during the maintenance window

HKIX Scheduled Maintenance for HKIX1 Old Switch on June 1, 2015 17:30-18:00 (UTC+8)

Date : June 1 2015(Mon)
Location : HKIX1
Time : 17:30 – 18:00 (HK Time UTC +8)
Maintenance : HKIX will carry out maintenance of HKIX1 Old Switch’s uplinks
Impact : All HKIX1 old switch’s connections will be affected during the maintenance window

Please kindly note that HKIX will migrate HKIX2 switch’s uplinks to HKIX1 new switch on May 4, 2015 17:30-18:00 (UTC+8) with the following details:

Date : May 4 2015(Mon)
Location : HKIX2
Time : 17:30 – 18:00 (HK Time UTC +8)
Maintenance : HKIX will migrate HKIX2 switch’s uplinks from HKIX1 old switch to HKIX1 new switch
Impact  : All HKIX2 connections and all BGP sessions with HKIX Route Server 2 will be affected during the maintenance window

IPv4 Address Renumbering for HKIX Public Peering LAN: 12-15 Jun 2015 HKT (Fri-Mon)

Dear HKIX Participants,

This year is the 20th Anniversary of HKIX, which was set up in 1995.  HKIX has experienced steady growth during the last 20 years.  To cope with the growth, a lot of changes and upgrades had been done already.  For the IPv4 address block currently used for HKIX Public Peering LAN (202.40.160/23), we have already used up more than 80%.  In order to cope with the continuous growth of HKIX and having learnt from the experience of other IXPs around the world, we have decided to perform IPv4 address renumbering for HKIX Public Peering LAN during 12-15 Jun 2015 HKT.  This is the only option for solving the problem while minimizing the impact to the HKIX community.

A NEW IPv4 address block will be used and the network mask of HKIX public peering LAN will be changed from /23 to /21.  All HKIX participants will have to re-configure the IPv4 addresses on their routers in order to use the new IPv4 addresses to do peering over HKIX. 

During the 4-day migration (12-15 Jun 2015 HKT), HKIX will do parallel-run of both new and old IPv4 address blocks.  HKIX new route servers will serve the multilateral peering for new address block while the existing route servers will serve the multilateral peering for old address block.  HKIX participants can change their peering IPs at any time during the 4-day migration period and the old HKIX route servers and the old IPv4 address block 202.40.160/23 will cease operations right after completion of the IPv4 address renumbering on 15 Jun 2015 HKT.

Pre-announcement of this migration was made during APRICOT-APAN 2015 held in Fukuoka last week at “Peering Forum (2)” and “Lightning Talks” sessions.  Please refer to the following links:

https://2015.apricot.net/program#sessions/peeringforum2
https://2015.apricot.net/program#sessions/lightningtalks

To obtain the detailed arrangement for IPv4 address renumbering, please provide the following information to HKIX-NOC (hkix-noc@cuhk.edu.hk):

Your ASN:
Your IPv4 address(es) at HKIX:
Your email contact for the IPv4 address renumbering:

HKIX-NOC will contact you by email individually after receiving information from you.

Thank you very much for your cooperation on this migration.  Let us work together to make it a successful one.

Best regards,
HKIX Team

P.S.  There will be no change to IPv6 address block used for HKIX Public Peering LAN.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Criteo, EFLY Network Limited and Incapsula have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Emirates Telecommunications Corporation (ETISALAT) , Sony Corporation of Hong Kong Limited,  ViaNet Group Limited have been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

Production of the Second HKIX Core Site HKIX1b Starting 28 Nov 2014

In order to enhance the reliability and scalability of HKIX to cater for the ever-growing demands from the local as well as the regional and global Internet industry players for more stable and higher-speed interconnection services, HKIX has adopted a new Dual-Core Two-Tier Architecture and has established a second core site called HKIX1b within the campus of CUHK with the following characteristics:

• The original core site HKIX1 and the new core site HKIX1b are separated by more than 1.5km in terms of fiber distance within CUHK campus
• Both sites contain Core Switches and Access Switches interconnected by multiple 100GE links
• Both sites are running in Active-Active mode
• Access Switches at both HKIX1 and HKIX1b can serve connections of GE/10GE/100GE from participants
• Both sites together provide card resilience, chassis resilience as well as site resilience
• The architecture is highly scalable and can support more satellite sites outside of CUHK campus

Starting from 28 Nov 2014, the new core site HKIX1b is in production and ready for accepting connections from HKIX participants.  Participants are encouraged to take advantage of the dual-core architecture for better resilience by connecting to both core sites.

For details about the HKIX Dual-Core Two-Tier Architecture, please refer to the presentations at http://www.hkix.net/hkix/presentation.htm.

HKIX Team

DDoS Mitigation Trial via HKIX Route Servers by Supporting IPv4 Special Host Route Announcements for Black-holing

With immediate effect, HKIX route servers support IPv4 special host route announcements (i.e. /32’s) with BGP community 4635:666 for DDoS Mitigation Trial.  If HKIX participants want to participate, please send email to hkix-core@itsc.cuhk.edu.hk for implementation details.

In short, trial participants should at least accept the /32’s with BGP community 4635:666 from HKIX route servers and then do black-holing for traffic destined to those IP addresses.  Trial participants can also announce /32’s which are under their managed address blocks with BGP community 4635:666 to signal other trial participants to do black-holing when under DDoS attacks.

Benefits of participating:

• Hosts which are not DDoS targets will be less affected by the DDoS attacks.
• All participating networks will save some bandwidth of their HKIX connections during the DDoS attack period.

Possible impacts to DDoS Victims:

• The relevant hosts will be unreachable from those participating networks while the special /32 route announcements are in effect.

If the trial is considered successful, the set-up will be made permanent and this will be one of our standard services to all HKIX participants.

Again, if HKIX participants want to participate, please send email to hkix-core@itsc.cuhk.edu.hk for implementation details. 

We look forward to working with all of you to do better DDoS mitigation over HKIX.

Best regards,

HKIX Team

HKIX Schedule Maintenance at Mega iAdvantage on Dec 2, 2014 15:00-17:00 (GMT+8)

Date : Dec 2 2014(Tue)
Time : 15:00 – 17:00 (HK Time GMT +8)
Location : 32/F, Mega-iAdvantage
Impact : All HKIX connections at Mega-I 32/F will be affected during the maintenance window

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that Wicam Corporation, Co. Ltd. has been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

Planned OS Upgrade on HKIX switches and Relocation of Route Server 1 (RS1) to new HKIX switch

Date: 23-Nov-2014 Sunday
Time: 0001 - 0800 HKT (GMT+8)

HKIX will perform OS upgrade on HKIX switches and reload the Ethernet modules one by one. You may experience up/down events on your HKIX link(s) within 30 minutes during the corresponding module startup. In normal situation, if you have multiple LACP links to HKIX, the links should be connected to different Ethernet modules and the traffic will be forwarded by the rest of LACP links on the same switch.

In addition, HKIX will relocate Route Server 1 (RS1) to the new switch. There will be no impact to HKIX participants which have BGP sessions with both route servers RS1 and RS2. During relocation, your BGP sessions with RS1 will be down but your BGP sessions with the other route server RS2 will NOT be affected and the multi-lateral peering can still be maintained.

If you have not set up BGP sessions with both RS1 and RS2, you should do it ASAP for better resilience.

New participants connected to HKIX

We are pleased to announce that SG.GS, COLOCATION HOSTING SDN.BHD., WINSPEED GROUP INTERNATIONAL LIMITED, HONG KONG TELEVISION NETWORK LIMITED been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about them.

Decommission of the Old Switch at HKIX1 by 30 Jun 2015

Completion of planned switch upgrade maintenance on HKIX switch

It was completed at 0813 HKT (GMT+8) on 30 March 2014.

Scheduled HKIX Network Switch Capacity Upgrade Work

HKIX will carry out network switch upgrade works during the following time window for capacity enhancement.

Date: 30-Mar-2014 Sunday
Time: 0600 - 0800 HKT (GMT+8)

Maintenance: HKIX will carry out network switch upgrade works during the following time window for capacity enhancement.

Impact: During the network switch capacity upgrade period, intermittent packet drops may occur for a very short period of time.

Completion of Scheduled HKIX Network Switch Ports Relocation work

It was completed at 0800 HKT (GMT+8) on 5 Jan 2014.

BGP Sessions with HKIX Found Flapping from 22:10 Dec 17, 2013 and 02:00 Dec 18, 2013

The BGP sessions between HKIX and several HKIX participants were found flapping between 22:10 Dec 17, 2013 and 02:00 Dec 18, 2013.

After investigation, we discovered a HKIX participant conducted its router interface re-configuration last night without proxy ARP DISABLED causing some peering IP addresses binding to the same MAC address at the Route Servers’ ARP tables; which then caused the flapping.

The participant’s port was then shut down and the wrong ARP caches of both Route Servers were cleared; the BGP sessions returned normal at around 02:00 on Dec 18, 2013.

The participant’s port is currently put in a testing VLAN for joint investigation and we will only put its port back to the production VLAN when the problem/issue is completely solved.

I would also like to take this opportunity to remind all HKIX participants to ensure that proxy ARP is DISABLED on your router interface towards HKIX at all times.

Thanks for your attention.

HKIX NOC

Scheduled HKIX Network Switch Ports Relocation Work

HKIX will carry out partial 10GE ports relocation work during the following time window for capacity enhancement.

Date: 5-Jan-2014 Sunday
Time: 0500 - 0800 HKT (GMT+8)

Maintenance: HKIX will carry out partial 10GE ports relocation work during the above time window for capacity enhancement.

Impact: Only a few HKIX participants with 10GE connection(s) on the targeted 10GE modules will experience service interruption(s) during the period temporarily and they will be informed individually in parallel with this announcement.

HKIX aggregate traffic MRTG diagram on www.hkix.net may show traffic drop during the period.

All other HKIX participants not residing on the targeted 10GE modules should not be affected by this 10GE ports relocation exercise.

Completion of scheduled maintenance on HKIX route server RS1

The maintenance on HKIX route server RS1 was completed at 1800 HKT (GMT+8) on 22 August 2013.

Completion of Scheduled HKIX Network Switch Ports Relocation work

It was completed at 0800 HKT (GMT+8) on 18 Aug 2013.

Scheduled maintenance on HKIX route server RS1

HKIX will carry out maintenance on one of the route servers RS1 as follows.

Date: 22-Aug-2013 Thursday
Time window: 17:00 - 18:00 HKT (GMT+8)
Maintenance: Route Server RS1 IOS Upgrade
RS1 IPv4 address: 202.40.161.1/23
RS1 IPv6 address: 2001:7FA:0:1::CA28:A101/64
Impact: There will be no impact to HKIX participants which have BGP sessions with both route servers RS1 and RS2.
During RS1 IOS Upgrade, your BGP sessions with RS1 will be down but your BGP sessions with the other route server RS2 (202.40.161.2/23 & 2001:7FA:0:1::CA28:A102/64) will NOT be affected and multi-lateral peering will still be maintained.
If you have not set up BGP sessions with RS2, you should do it ASAP for good resilience.

Scheduled HKIX Network Switch Ports Relocation work

HKIX will carry out partial 10GE ports relocation work during the following time window for capacity enhancement.

Date: 18-Aug-2013 Sunday
Time window: 05:00 - 08:00 HKT (GMT+8)
Maintenance: HKIX will carry out partial 10GE ports relocation work during the above time window for capacity enhancement.
Impact: Only a few HKIX participants with 10GE connection(s) on the targeted 10GE modules will experience service interruption(s) during the period temporarily and they will be informed individually in parallel with this announcement.
HKIX aggregate traffic MRTG diagram on www.hkix.net may show traffic drop during the period.
All other HKIX participants not residing on the targeted 10GE modules should not be affected by this 10GE ports relocation exercise.

Completion of planned OS upgrade maintenance on HKIX switch

It was completed at 8:00am HKT (GMT+8) on 5 May 2013.

Planned OS upgrade maintenance on HKIX switch

HKIX will perform the maintenance as follows:
Date: 5 May 2013 (Sunday)
Time: 6:00am - 8:00am HKT (GMT+8)
Impact: No service interruption under normal situation

Friendly reminder to HKIX participants about how to mitigate DDoS attacks

Dear HKIX participants,

Open DNS Recursive Resolvers pose a significant threat to the global Internet infrastructure as they are utilized in DNS Amplification attacks.  A recent DDoS attack was found exploiting this security hole against some Internet companies with total traffic estimated to be over 300Gbps.  In order to help mitigate future attacks, we would like to remind you to take the following actions:

1. Please make reference to http://openresolverproject.org/ for stopping open DNS recursive resolvers on your networks.  Most DNS related measures and technical resources including DNS RRL (Response Rate Limiting) are mentioned over there too so you are highly recommended to take a detailed look at the site.
2. Please implement BCP38 on your networks so that your customers cannot spoof the source IP addresses of their outgoing packets.  This is critically important to stop an entire range of DDoS attacks on the Internet.  More information can be found at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/bcp38 
3. Please do NOT announce HKIX's IP address blocks 202.40.160/23 and 2001:7FA:0:1::/64 to anywhere with BGP.
4. Please consider implementing control plane policing on your routers (i.e. rate limiting).

Let us work together to build a more secured Internet.

Thank you very much for your attention.

HKIX Team

New participant connected to HKIX 
We are pleased to announce that VXRoutes has been directly connected to HKIX. Please visit our Participants page to learn more about VXRoutes.

Important HKIX Announcement on New Charging Model

HKIX was established in April 1995, using spare resources of The Chinese University of Hong Kong.  At the onset, HKIX could be offered as a free-of-charge service to the early participants with moderate network traffic.  But over the years, with the growth in the demand for Internet traffic exchange and e-business, we have now grown into a critical Internet infrastructure covering 190+ autonomous systems and exchanging 250+ Gbps of data at peak time.  To support such a huge network, the configuration of HKIX has also evolved from a primitive coaxial cable to Ethernet switches and to the now top-end equipment and technologies.

Obviously, it is not possible to leverage the network economy of the whole Hong Kong with virtually no cost.  In 2005, we introduced the penalty-based cost-recovering model with a hope to curb abuse and to recover most of the cost.  After eight years, we find that this extremely conservative model is not sustainable in front of the exponential growth in network traffic volume and growth in the demand for new connections.  Together with the higher expectation of all the participants in the service, it calls for a continuous upgrade of the HKIX infrastructure in capacity and resilience.  This requires substantial periodic capital investment and operating expenses.  It is unfair and impossible for the university to subsidize the operation indefinitely.  In fact, we have to do a major upgrade in 2013 to cope with the ever-increasing demand and to improve our resilience further with site resilience at the core.

In order to make the HKIX operation truly self-sustained in long term and to prepare for the continuous growth in the future while we could keep HKIX as a not-for-profit service, we have no choice but to implement a full-cost-recovery model, i.e. simple port charge model.  This charging mechanism is actually the industry norm, which is fair and consistent for all participants.

Simple port charge model will be implemented starting 01-JAN-2013 for all new participants and new connection requests.  For existing participants with no change of connections, the existing terms and conditions will not change until 30-JUN-2013.  To further ease the transition, we shall still provide to each participant up to 2 free FE/GE ports in total (counting all ports at all HKIX sites) until 30-JUN-2014.  After 30-JUN-2014, all ports will be chargeable.

The new port charges (applied to all HKIX sites) will be:

FE/GE: US$120/port/month (no one-time connection charge) 10GE: US$1,000/port/month (plus one-time non-refundable connection charge: LR - US$2,300; ER - US$7,000)

(Exchange Rate: US$1=HK$7.8)

We strongly believe the charges laid down are on the low side when compared to other parts of the world.  Nevertheless, we shall review the charges periodically and uphold our principles of fairness and consistency.

If you have any queries regarding this new arrangement, please feel free to contact our core team at hkix-core at itsc.cuhk.edu.hk.

We thank you for your understanding and wish you’ll have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

HKIX Team

Planned OS upgrade maintenance on HKIX switch
HKIX will perform the maintenance on HKIX switch as follows.
Date: 6 May 2012 (Sunday)
Time: 0600-0800 HKT (GMT+8)
Impact: No service interruption under normal situation

Thank you for your attention.

HKIX2 Relocation Notice Update
Please be informed that HKIX2 will be relocated from CITIC Tower (Admiralty) to 17/F CITIC Telecom Tower; 93 Kwai Fuk Road, Kwai Chung, New Territories, Hong Kong in 2012. HKIX participants who have connection(s) to HKIX2 should discuss with its FTNS operators for the relocation arrangement. The relocation can be started in the middle of May 2012.

Should HKIX participants need further information, please kindly send e-mail to hkix-noc@cuhk.edu.hk.

Thank you for your attention.

HKIX Data Centre Air-Conditioning Enhancement Work

Date & Time: Dec 10, 2011, 09:00-09:45am HKT (GMT+8)

Scope of Work: To put a new Computer Room Air-Conditioning Unit (CRAC) into production

Potential Impact: For safety reasons, about 2/3 of the existing CRAC units need to be powered off; including the air-conditioning units at HKIX FTNS room during the period for connecting the new CRAC unit to the main circuit board. Although we will arrange other means for lowering the temperature of the Data Centre, however, HKIX participants’ or FTNS operators’ equipment might still encounter temperature alarm during the captioned period.

We are sorry for the inconvenience caused and appreciate your patience on this matter.

HKIX Main Switch OS Upgrade on 24 July, 2011

Please be informed that HKIX/AS4635 will perform an OS upgrade on its main switch on 24 July, 2011 (Sunday). The upgrade will take 30 minutes and require a reboot of the switch. During the upgrade, all connections on the HKIX switch may intermittently drop and BGP sessions with the route servers will be affected. You may experience connectivity issues to the participants which directly connected with the HKIX.

Date: 24 July, 2011 (Sunday) Time: 0600 - 0800 HKT (GMT+8)

Impact: Disruptive upgrade; expect 30 minutes service interruption to HKIX participants during OS upgrade.

We are sorry for the inconvenience caused and appreciate your patience on this matter.

Urgent Maintenance of HKIX Main Switch on 5 April 2011 (0600-0800 GMT+8)

Please be informed that HKIX/AS4635 will perform an urgent maintenance on its main switch on 5 April, 2011 (Tuesday, Ching Ming Festival) in order to solve the problems encountered between 00:29-01:29 on 4 April 2011. The urgent maintenance will involve hardware module replacement & power recycle of the main switch and we expect there will be at least one hour of service interruption to the HKIX participants’ BGP connections during the maintenance period.

Date: 5 April, 2011 (Tuesday, Ching Ming Festival)

Time: 0600 - 0800 HKT (GMT+8)

Impact: At least one-hour of service interruption to HKIX participants’ BGP connections during the maintenance period. We are sorry for the inconvenience caused.

Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.

HKIX Main Switch OS Upgrade on 3-4-2011 (0600-0800 GMT+8)
Please be informed that HKIX/AS4635 will perform an OS upgrade on its main switch on 3 April, 2011 (Sunday). This is non-disruptive upgrade and we expect no service interruption to the BGP connections under normal situation.

Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.

Date: 3 April, 2011 (Sunday)
Time: 0600 - 0800 HKT (GMT+8)
Impact: Non-disruptive upgrade; expect no service interruption to HKIX participants under normal situation

HKIX service interruption
HKIX experienced hardware module re-boot problems at around 17:25, Jan 27, 2011; which caused HKIX services interruption for about 10-minutes.

The incident happened unexpectedly when the technical supports of the equipment vendor and the system integrator recommended and conducted the HKIX network equipment supervisor engine switchover (i.e. to a standby supervisor engine) for solving problems found in the network equipment this morning.

The HKIX services resumed at 17:35 and the technical supports are still on-site to conduct further investigation. In the meantime, the technical support of the equipment in USA was also informed to assist in the investigation.

We are sorry for the inconvenience caused and will keep you informed on our Web http://www.hkix.net  about the progress of the investigation in the future.

Thank you for your attention.

HKIX service interruption
HKIX was experiencing route server re-boot problems between 15:57 and 18:45, Nov 10, 2009; which causing HKIX service interruptions during the captioned period.

The problem was identified and suspected relating to one of the HKIX participants’ IPv6 BGP announcement; the HKIX service has been resumed from 18:45 Nov 10, 2009 after the HKIX participant’s IPv6 BGP announcement was isolated from the HKIX router server.

We have informed the engineers of our network equipment vendor to come and have a detailed check of our equipment and will work with the identified HKIX participant to find out the root cause of the incident.

We are sorry for the inconvenience caused and will keep you informed on our Web http://www.hkix.net about the progress of the investigation in the future.

Thank you for your attention.

Scheduled maintenance by FTNS operator and Service Provider
Informed by one FTNS operator that a planned maintenance will be carried out on its equipment at HKIX during the following periods: 03:00-07:00 HKT Oct 24, 2008 and 03:00-07:00 HKT Oct 25, 2008. During the above maintenance periods, you may experience intermittently BGP up/down at HKIX while the BGP connections at HKIX2 will not be affected. In the meantime, HKIX members’ connections via this services provider might be affected during the maintenance. Please contact your FTNS operator directly should you encounter any connectivity problem during that time.

HKIX Site Access Procedure Revision
Starting from 1 Dec 2005, HKIX will implement new Data Centre access procedures; only pre-registered personnel (representative) of HKIX members can make site access appointment by sending e-mail to hkix-access@cuhk.edu.hk. The details of the HKIX Data Centre policies and representative list update form are available at here.

Started from 1 October 2005, HKIX will apply new procedures on processing filter update requests. HKIX members are required to submit the requests at http://www.hkix.net/hkix/filter/filterupdate.html. A ticket number will be issued for each request so that HKIX members can check the status by providing of this ticket number. Other form of applications on filter updating will NOT be accepted in due course.

HKIX has revised its route server policy on filtering of BGP route announced by the HKIX members. For HKIX members who are using AS filtering and advertising more than 2500 prefixes for 200+ different ASes to the HKIX are entitled to apply for the Closer Peering Arrangement (CPA) with the route server. Please read here for details.

The i.root-servers.net DNS root name server was attached to the HKIX in March, 2004. This local root server was maintained by Autonomica and provides nameserver service to local community of operators. For details, please click here.

In order to enhance reliability and to provide value-added services, HKIX has entered into a collaboration arrangement with CITIC DATA 1616 Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the CITIC Pacific group, in order to establish a joint venture, which will in turn operate a second site in Central, Hong Kong. The second site under the joint venture will act as a back-up mirror site, and will also aim to establish Hong Kong as the internet hub for the Asia-Pacific region.

Details about the joint venture and the arrangements for connection to the second site will be provided later.

The original HKIX operation remains unchanged in its ownership, its physical location in Shatin, and its present policy of providing free local internet peering service to the community.

Temporary Disruption of HKIX Services
Due to a failure of the Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) at 11:35am today, main power supply to the Central Machine Room of ITSC was switched off for safety precaution. After emergent restoration, HKIX network equipment were up and running at 2:40pm.

HKIX is pleased to announce that Hong Kong IPv6 Internet eXchange (HK6IX) service on the existing layer2 network is available for members with immediate effect. You can announce your IPv6 networks with the prefix length less than or equal to 64 on the existing HKIX connections, or you can establish a dedicated connection to HKIX for IPv6 traffic only. Both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic will traverse on the same Catalyst 6513. Besides, all existing regulations and guild-lines applying to HKIX are also valid to HK6IX. If you have any queries, please feel free to contact us by email at hkix-noc@cuhk.edu.hk.

HKIX will perform switch upgrade on 17 January 2004 from 0700-0830, HKT(GMT+8). During the maintenance, HKIX connections may drop intermittently and BGP peers with the route servers will also be affected.

HKIX is going to support 10/100/1000BaseTX and 10 Gigabit Ethernet connection on the new switch in early 2004. If you will upgrade your routers or transmission equipment, please do consider to make them support aforesaid connections. GBIC ports for 1000Base-SX and 1000Base-LX connections will not be supported on the switches in due course. Because of equipment aging, HKIX may also stop the direct support on ATM IRB connection in late 2004.

HKIX will perform IOS upgrade on core switch and route servers from 0800-0830, HKT(GMT+8) on 2 August 2003. During the maintenance, HKIX connections may drop intermittently and BGP peers with the route servers will be affected.

System maintenance in HKIX will be carried out from 0800 to 0830 on 01 April 2003. BGP connections will drop occasionally during this period.

The first Asia Pacific F root server is attached to HKIX. The local root server was maintained by the Internet Software Consortium (ISC) and provides nameserver service to local community of operators. For details, please click here.

Due to hardware problem of backup route server, all BGP connections were disconnected around 0948 this morning. The BGP connections were resumed at 1000 after removed the faulty hardware from HKIX.

The annual maintenance of electricity system will be carried out from 0830 to 1400 on 02 June 2002 at HKIX data center. All network equipment except FTNS facilities will be run on UPS and power generator during that period. FTNS operators had been informed to make their own arrangement against this event. It is expected that city power will be resumed after the maintenance.

MRTG data was lost between 0930-1530 on 21 March 2002 in reporting HKIX Switching Statistics. The graph was flatten but actually there was no traffic dropped on HKIX connections within that period. The graph data was resumed normal after 1530 and later on.

HKIX would not perform hard reset on BGP session for members after the ip address or AS filter update. Instead, we would perform soft reset for them in order to make the change in effect. Members are required to hard reset the BGP session if they are using IOS release prior to 12.1 which does not support soft route refresh capability.

Members are entitled to use AS number filtering on HKIX route server provided that members have more than 5 Autonomous Systems (AS) connected and each AS contains at least one /20 or shorter prefix announced to HKIX.

HKIX encountered multicast storms at 13:15 and 16:30 on 27 July 2001. The normal traffic was dropped and all BGP sessions were down. The abnormal traffic was received from four members which were connected to the same fixed network operator. The fixed network operator reported that abnormal traffic was stopped by disconnecting a backup trunk on their high speed data network. They added that the equipment involved in this incident was different from that causing the broadcast storm on 6 June. The service was resumed at 13:30 and 17:00 respectively.

Live image from HKIX is available at http://www.hkix.net/hkix/ops/ix_oper.htm

An electrical work for system upgrade and safety will be carried out on 07 July and 08 July. In order to shorten the down time, all network equipment will be detached from UPS power and directly connected to city power at 06:30, 07 July. It is expected that UPS power will be resumed normal at 06:30, 09 July and the individual down time for two switch-overs will not be longer than 15 minutes.