[118400] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ISP/VPN's to China?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred Baker)
Wed Oct 21 14:17:24 2009
From: Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>
To: ChrisSerafin <chris@chrisserafin.com>
In-Reply-To: <4ADF4B53.7020001@chrisserafin.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:16:28 -0700
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I travel to China at least once a year, often several times. I
generally visit major cities like Shanghai and Beijing, but have been
to a number of other cities. I generally use Cisco VPN (an IPsec VPN)
to Cisco DMZs in Tokyo or Hong Kong for business purposes. As with
hotels in other parts of the world, congestive interference depends a
lot on the hotel and what the person you're competing with is doing. I
can tell you a few horror stories if you're amused by them, but in
recent years things have been improving.
On Oct 21, 2009, at 10:56 AM, ChrisSerafin wrote:
> I have a client in the US looking to connect up an office in China
> and I'm wondering what type of connections are avilable and wether
> IPSEC VPNs can be established through the 'Great firewall of China'.
>
> I talked to a China Telcom rep in the US that says that the network
> congestion even in China makes VPN's difficult. From their website,
> I see that the majority of the country is using xDSL, or 2MB
> dedicated lines.
>
> Can anyone shed any light on this topic? Thanks!
>
> chris@chrisserafin.com
>
