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HONG KONG OPEN EXCHANGE (HKOX) UPDATES

Wai Man CHEUNG, Francis FONG Joint Universities Computer Centre Limited (JUCC) 8 August 2018

HKOX Initiatives

• Global Network Architecture (GNA) Vision:
• Sustainable high performance global interconnect for Research and

Education

• Bring the intercontinental R&E network infrastructures within reach
• The concept of setting up a Hong Kong Open Exchange Point was first mentioned

in APAN42 in Hong Kong, with the topic “The Possible Hong Kong Open Exchange Point”

• JUCC, being a consortium of tertiary institutions in Hong Kong, feels the
• bligation to create an “architecture” (HKOX) to increase collaboration and

achieve resource sharing within the global R&E Community

• JUCC formed a HKOXP Task Force in Nov 2016 to evaluate how JUCC participates

in setting up an Open Exchange Point in Hong Kong

• JUCC considered different operational models
• Collaboration model with the Hong Kong Internet Exchange (HKIX)
• Meetings conducted with HKIX for possible collaboration, such as leveraging

the existing HKIX-R&E node, manpower, expertise

• HKOX and HKIX to operate the R&E nodes independently
• JUCC represents the Hong Kong universities research community and has the

mandate to serve and develop the community

HKOX Initiatives

• Independent business model
• JUCC operates our own exchange point
• Port charge will be waived for at least two years
• Subsidized business model
• HKSAR OGCIO (Office of the Government Chief Information Officer) sent

representatives to join the APAN42 in order to understand the establishment

• f a Hong Kong Open Exchange Point
• HKSAR OGCIO showed support to JUCC for establishing the HKOX for

worldwide research and education activities

• Funding support will be sought from the HKSAR Government for the

continual development of HKOX

HKOX Initiatives

• JUCC would like to acknowledge the previous contribution of HKIX on

Internet exchange

• JUCC decided to extend our existing Hong Kong Academic and Research

Network (HARNET) and added an R&E node in MEGA-i to the HARNET infrastructure as a starting point for HKOX

• JUCC / HKOX represents an active and vibrant research community in Hong
• Kong. We have hundreds of active research projects with overseas

institutions.

• JUCC, composed of CIOs and IT Directors of member institutions, has

management oversight of the development of HKOX

HKOX Initiatives

• NRENs are welcomed to connect to the HKOX so that researchers in Hong

Kong can work effectively with counterparts through connected NRENs

• NRENs can decide the peering (bilateral or multilateral) model as to facilitate

academic and research projects

• MOU with TransPAC, SingAREN and TEIN for close collaboration

HKOX Initiatives

• HKUST-MIT Research

Alliance Consortium

• Build up a network for local

universities and leading technology companies to collaborate with their international counterparts

• n future advancement in

high-tech research

R&E Projects

• HKU School of Public Health: Mining the Antibiotic

Resistance Genes

• Objective: To investigate the global distribution of different

antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), and study their evolution and emergence

• Research using genome datasets from US databanks

(National Center for Biotechnology Information, ChicagoU and Argonne National Laboratory)

• Genomic Datasets: RefSeq, nt/nr, WGS, SRA databases

from National Center for Biotechnology Information (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) and the MG-RAST metagenomic database (www.mg-rast.org) from The University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory

R&E Projects

Phylogenetic tree of antibiotic- resistant mcr and related genes

• CUHK Signs Agreement with CERN to Enable Physics
• Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) setup a HPC

Cluster linking with CERN HPC Cluster for physics calculation and analytics

• HPC Cluster Configuration:
• 18x worker node with 1008 Cores
• 3x DPM disk nodes (436TB)
• 4x DPM disk nodes (654TB) – to be deployed in

summer

• Future Plan: Optimize the network by LHCONE peering

R&E Projects

HKOX Infrastructure

• Complied with GNA specifications
• Installed a Juniper MX 10003
• Supported GE, 10GE and 100GE ports
• Located at the 10/F of MEGA-i, Hong Kong
• Installed perfSONAR
• HKOX ASN 137207

HKOX Infrastructure

HKOX Infrastructure

HKOX NREN PEERING PARTNERS

Existing HARNET-R&E PEERING PARTNERS (Announce HARNET Route only & no route exchange) AS NUMBER Port Bandwidth (Gbps) TEIN4 24489 10 KREONET 17579 10 CERNET 4538 100 GOOGLE 15169 20 JGN TBD TBD HKOX PEERING PARTNERS (Exchange all routes by default and control by peering partners using BGP Community) AS NUMBER Port Bandwidth (Gbps) TransPAC TBD TBD SingAREN TBD TBD CSTNet TBD TBD

HKOX Layer 2 Transport Service

• Support Bilateral Peering (BLP) between NREN Partners on dedicated VLAN

HKOX Layer 2 Transport Service

• BGP peering between HKOX Router and NREN Partners on common VLAN
• The common VLAN number is 901

Layer 2/3 Configurations on HKOX Router

HKOX Layer 3 Transport Service

• Routes exchange control between NRENs by using BGP Community

HKOX Layer 3 Transport Service

• Multilateral Peering (MLP) with HARNET Institutions and NREN Partners on HKOX Router
• By default, routes are not exchanged among NRENs on HKOX, but HKOX encourages NRENs to share their routes

with others

JUCC HKOX Web Site

URL: https://www.hkox.hk/

JUCC HKOX Web Site

All of us can get our updated information from the web site or directly contact HKOX.

JUCC HKOX Web Site

You are welcomed to join us.

Q & A

JUCC HKOX