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China Unicom activates 500Gbps of trans-Russian (TTK) capacity to Europe
Just saw this: https://www.submarinenetworks.com/en/systems/eurasia-terrestrial/ermc/ttk-activates-multiple-100g-eurasia-links-for-china-unicom
Routing:
https://www.submarinenetworks.com/en/eurasia-terrestrial
From here in Frankfurt to China Unicom's router in DE-CIX to China is only ~162ms which is crazy low! I'm loving the new low latency from Europe to Asia via Russia.
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wow
What was the avg before?
greattomeetyou, ~200ms if its trans-Singapore or ~320ms if its trans-US.
162ms to China, still needs fucking 300ms to that tiny island.
will it help others in SEA region? Like Thailand, Singapore etc?
if it connects to japan, would be pretty nice.
muratai, the SE Asia/South Asia region data traffic is hubbed mostly in Singapore & India (Mumbai/Chennai). There's 2 new subsea cables which depending on ISP has a low latency of ~150ms Singapore to Paris: http://www.seamewe5.com/wp-content/uploads/TTI_poster_SMW5_A0_2019_1.3-1.jpg With SEA-ME-WE-5 there's also the slightly older AAE-1 cable. As far for Japan, I'm not aware of any Japanese ISPs using Russian transit to Europe probably due to geo-political reasons. There is both the RJCN cable and HSCS cable linking the Russia Far East to Tokyo and I DO know both Rostelecom & Transtelecom (TTK) have a POPs in Tokyo and Hong Kong. I've verified through traceroutes that Rostelecom has IP transit with PCCW out of Hong Kong. I haven't seen any Asian IP transit for TTK. I also know China Telecom/Unicom have long had a direct route to Russia but this is the first time there is substantial capacity shift in Europe traffic on China Unicom via Russia.
Good to see this. Another huge Chinese ISP China Telecom has a premium link which makes EU to China in less than 100ms possible. Sounds crazy, but I don't know any Chinese IP that goes through this link. It's practically unused.
China Unicom's most EU-targeted traffic is transited in the US, making latency and loss sky high. Would be good to see an improve in light of this new link.
Which VPS providers here with Frankfurt location benefit from this directly?
Is this even possible (physically)?
Ah forgot to mention that one end needs to be Urumqi in Xinjiang (central Asia). If pinging from Beijing or other cities, latency is higher than 110. Still quite good.
Wow, I'll remember this thread next time I bitch about 80ms cross Canada latency.
It never stops, even me starts bitching about 25ms to DE-CIX whenever I come across some lucky DTAG DSL customer with 10ms.
Singapore is usually pretty good. Usually around 180ms to SingTel and StarHub from CZ.
It could help Hong Kong, but I guess you need to purchase transit from China Unicom to benefit from their cable, and I doubt many outside China will do that (or even will be offered reasonable prices by CU), even in HK.