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Re: ISP/VPN's to China?

  • From: Fred Baker
  • Date: Wed Oct 21 14:17:24 2009

I travel to China at least once a year, often several times. I generally visit major cities like Shanghai and Beijing, but have been to a number of other cities. I generally use Cisco VPN (an IPsec VPN) to Cisco DMZs in Tokyo or Hong Kong for business purposes. As with hotels in other parts of the world, congestive interference depends a lot on the hotel and what the person you're competing with is doing. I can tell you a few horror stories if you're amused by them, but in recent years things have been improving.

On Oct 21, 2009, at 10:56 AM, ChrisSerafin wrote:

I have a client in the US looking to connect up an office in China and I'm wondering what type of connections are avilable and wether IPSEC VPNs can be established through the 'Great firewall of China'.

I talked to a China Telcom rep in the US that says that the network congestion even in China makes VPN's difficult. From their website, I see that the majority of the country is using xDSL, or 2MB dedicated lines.

Can anyone shed any light on this topic? Thanks!

chris@chrisserafin.com






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