Autonomous system
AS4641 HKIX-AS-AP The Hong Kong Internet Exchange Limited
Unclassified APNIC
Summary
HKIX (Hong Kong Internet Exchange)
ixp legacy
HKIX-AS-AP belongs to The Hong Kong Internet Exchange Limited, which operates
HKIX, Hong Kong's main internet exchange point. HKIX grew out of, and is run in
association with, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
What it's used for
- Running the exchange itself: the peering fabric where hundreds of networks interconnect, plus the route servers and support services around it. The AS is infrastructure, not a transit or access network.
Notable
- An IXP does not carry traffic as a network in the usual sense. Its members swap traffic directly with one another across the fabric, so the AS number appears rarely in AS paths despite the volume flowing through the exchange.
- HKIX is the pivot for regional traffic between Hong Kong, mainland China, and the rest of Asia, which is why it matters far beyond its small address footprint.
Interesting
- HKIX dates to the mid-1990s and is among the older internet exchanges still running under its original name.
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Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| HK | Hong Kong | 6 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS4641- Registry name
- HKIX-AS-AP
- Registrant
- The Hong Kong Internet Exchange Limited
- Abuse contact
- noc-admin@hkix.net
- Registered
- 2008-09-04
- Last changed
- 2020-06-22
- Status
- active
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
Threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere