Sprint peering policy
Stephen J. Wilcox
steve at opaltelecom.co.uk
Tue Jul 2 13:02:43 UTC 2002
The original comment I made was regarding the amount of traffic people suggest
they have on their networks.
I know UU, L3, Sprint, Verio etc will carry many gigabits but it was concerning
the average list member rather than the exceptional major player...
Answers so far vary..
Steve
On 2 Jul 2002, Giles Heron wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 02:00, Grant A. Kirkwood wrote:
> >
> > At 09:54 PM 7/1/2002 -0400, Phil Rosenthal wrote:
> >
> > >My math shows ~500bps per US citizen:
> > >Assuming 150,000,000,000 bits and 280,000,000 citizens.
> >
> > This also assumes US citizens don't sleep.
>
> and that non-US citizens never send traffic through the US or send
> traffic to/from servers in the US.
>
> Given that traffic from Europe to Asia almost always goes via the US,
> and given that it isn't unheard of for traffic between major European
> ASs to go via the US (e.g. 702 and 9057 right now) then the former
> assumption is clearly untrue.
>
> I think the fact that I'm sending this invalidates the second one?
>
> Giles
>
>
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> > Grant A. Kirkwood - grant(at)tnarg.org
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> >
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