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China infrastructure guides for international businesses
Explore measured website access in China, cross-border connectivity, and infrastructure deployment through technical guides and customer case studies.
Guides, comparisons & case studies
Website Access in China: A Performance Comparison
Compare an overseas-hosted test site's access through an accelerated path and its origin, using multi-day monitoring, browser measurements, and a multi-node HTTP snapshot.
5 min readGuideChina Dark Fiber: When Leasing Glass Beats Leasing Bandwidth
Dark fiber is the one way to buy bandwidth that does not get more expensive as you use more of it. Where it applies in China, how it is priced, and where it stops making sense.
10 min readGuideICP Filing, Explained: What Needs It and What Does Not
The single rule that decides whether a China-facing site needs an ICP filing, who is allowed to file, and the legitimate alternative when you cannot.
8 min readComparisonNear-Shore Edge vs Mainland Hosting vs Overseas Origin
Three ways to put a China-facing site in front of users, compared on filing, latency, failure behaviour, and how hard each one is to leave.
8 min readComparisonCross-Border Link Options: Dedicated Line, MPLS, SD-WAN, VPN
Enterprise circuits and public web traffic need different answers. What each cross-border option is good at, and where the cost actually scales.
9 min readPlaybookPlaybook: Diagnosing Latency, Jitter, and Packet Loss for China Users
A practical order of operations for finding which part of the path is slow, when your own monitoring sits next to the origin and cannot see the problem.
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