[140355] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: VPN tunnels between US and China dropping/slow
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Tue May 10 10:35:44 2011
In-Reply-To: <20110510093533.20e357c6@petrie>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 10:34:41 -0400
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: William Pitcock <nenolod@systeminplace.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:35 AM, William Pitcock
<nenolod@systeminplace.net> wrote:
>> Currently, we're talking to Time Warner and some of our customers who
>> have plants in China to see what solutions they're using to get
>> around this kind of issue. One thing we are hearing quite often is
>> that they're using a MPLS based connection to Hong Kong, then going
>> to the USA from there. We're happy to try this, but due to cost
>> issues we're (management mostly) considering this a last resort
>> option. Are there any other options maybe some of you have to fixing
>> this issue? Thanks
>
> The only option is to get transport to an endpoint outside China, e.g.
> in Hong Kong.
or just tunnel without a protocol... or spread-spectrum across more
than one endpoint set
