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For the sake of reference, the figure below shows major international traffic routes with at least 9 Gbps of aggregate capacity and the submarine cable map. Domestic routes are omitted. The source is TeleGeography research.

International routes,
data as of mid-2005.

Submarine cable map
(2008)

We have at least one monitoring node in South Korea, Japan, China and Taiwan. With the help of those, we gathered the traceroute results for the neighbours as well as the world as shown in the figures below.

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Routes to neighbours
as seen from Japan

Routes to neighbours
as seen from South Korea

Routes to neighbours
as seen from China

Routes to neighbours
as seen from Taiwan

The trace route results show that generally China is directly connected with its neighbouring countries. The exceptional cases are that of the links with Vietnam and Thailand. In case of Vietnam, the traffic is routed via United Kingdom and Hong Kong, where as in case of Thailand, the traffic flows either via Hong Kong and Japan or directly.

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