How polluted is 1/8?

Thu Feb 4 18:27:04 UTC 2010

Mirjam Kuehne wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> After 1/8 was allocated to APNIC last week, the RIPE NCC did some 
> measurements to find out how "polluted" this block really is.
> 
> See some surprising results on RIPE Labs: 
> http://labs.ripe.net/content/pollution-18
> 
> Please also note the call for feedback at the bottom of the article.

The most surprising thing in that report was that someone has an AMS-IX
port at just 10 megs.  It would be nice to see an actual measurement of
the traffic and daily/weekly changes. A breakdown of the flow data by
source ASN and source prefix (for the top 50-100 sources) would also be
interesting.

- Kevin