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China Telecom now using trans-Russian low latency route to Europe
I was researching some connectivity problems earlier and found out my server on CT in China had low latency from Europe (Telia Carrier) and did a trace-route from Dusseldorf AND it was ~200 ms. I researched further and found China Telecom's looking glass & network performance site.
Looking Glass: https://ipms.chinatelecomglobal.com/public/lookglass/lookglassDisclaimer.html
Query Results:
Source: 118.85.205.76
Destination: 202.97.32.29
Performing: traceroute
IP Version: IPv4
traceroute to 202.97.32.29 (202.97.32.29), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 gateway (118.85.205.73) 4.121 ms 3.981 ms 3.921 ms
2 202.97.95.205 (202.97.95.205) 193.988 ms 193.936 ms 193.830 ms
3 202.97.32.29 (202.97.32.29) 171.243 ms 171.264 ms 171.312 ms
Query Complete
~171ms from Frankfurt to Shanghai. Its literally impossible via trans-US or trans-Singapore so the only route is trans-Russian.
Query Results:
Source: 118.85.205.76
Destination: 202.97.32.62
Performing: traceroute
IP Version: IPv4
traceroute to 202.97.32.62 (202.97.32.62), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 gateway (118.85.205.73) 4.932 ms 4.817 ms 4.731 ms
2 202.97.58.73 (202.97.58.73) 155.669 ms * *
Query Complete
~155ms from Frankfurt to Beijing.
Query Results:
Source: 118.85.205.76
Destination: 202.97.32.55
Performing: traceroute
IP Version: IPv4
traceroute to 202.97.32.55 (202.97.32.55), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 gateway (118.85.205.73) 4.167 ms 4.111 ms 4.060 ms
2 202.97.98.178 (202.97.98.178) 194.965 ms * *
Query Complete
~194ms from Frankfurt to Guangzhou.
Real time network performance matrix (for some reason it doesn't show the Mainland China data, only overseas but the looking glass has real time mainland China data:
https://ipms.chinatelecomglobal.com/public/sla/slaPerformanceNewShow.html
https://ipms.chinatelecomglobal.com/public/performance/ipNetworkMapLegalStatement.html
Upon further research RETN and China Telecom now have a trans-Kazakhstan route now to China:
https://retn.net/slider/transkz-the-retn-eurasian-way/
https://retn.net/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/TransKZ-Brochure-Digital_updated-CH.pdf
The absolute shortest terrestrial route between Frankfurt & Hong Kong is ONLY 150ms 100G waves.
Comments
Are you saying China and Russian sharing customers data?
Probably not unless needed by the government. You know that both China & Russia are authoritarian are those are the rules if you want to be in their market. I did some further tests with my server and China Telecom has transit to China from London, Amsterdam & Frankfurt <200ms to China.
Is this really a new thing?
I had sub 170ms latencies to Beijing using Telefonica O2 ADSL in Germany at least since early last year, didn't check earlier.
And right now I'm getting 171ms on Speedtest to Beijing China Unicom using o2-de 4G in roaming in the Netherlands (~30-35ms to Frankfurt), while CT is around 200ms.
Decrypt that gobbledygook for me.
beware your customers data