Hong Kong Internet eXchange (HKIX) is initiated and coordinated by Information Technology Services Centre (ITSC) of the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). HKIX is NOT a transit service provider; instead, it is a layer-two settlement-free multi-lateral exchange point.

Internet Exchange is a very important concept on Internet after the NSFnet Backbone faded away because IAPs have to be interconnected to maintain full connectivity to the whole Internet. In Hong Kong, many IAPs have their own links to US. They have to interconnect locally in order to have faster and less expensive access to local sites. HKIX is initiated by CUHK with this point in mind. All of the HKIX participants can be benefited because significant amount of precious International link bandwidth can be saved. In additional to that, HKIX participants can exchange data much faster making the development of multimedia applications in Hong Kong more meaningful.

Our main goal is to interconnect the Internet Access Providers (IAPs) in Hong Kong so that we can exchange intra-HongKong traffic locally without routing through US. However, HKIX can also be used for routing of Internet traffic between the networks in Hong Kong and the peer or downstream networks of HKIX participants in other countries. The peering model of HKIX is a SKA (Sender Keep All) peering model. HKIX serves IAPs with proper licenses, local and international Research and Education networks as well as international network services providers and Internet exchanges.

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