OT: Total Traffic. Was: Sprint peering policy

Tue Jul 2 15:49:35 UTC 2002

Richard,

I know a few news server admins who might disagree with you. Or at least it
seems that way at times. ;)

I typically have a 251Kbps (broadband) stream from www.thebasement.com.au
running in the background when on line. The stream is coming out of
Australia (don't think it's been Akakamized yet. Did I spell that right?) so
that stream is on a US backbone. That's in addition to anything else I may
be doing. This is only a single point of data but single points eventually
add up to a bucket.

Additional thoughts. Wonder what that peak traffic would be if individual
sites and services weren't as rate limited as most are by pipe size,
hardware or software? Or how about a 6Gbps HDTV video conference stream
(UCLA (?)- MIT on Internet2).

Just my 2¢. The delete key is your friend.

-Al Rowland

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard A Steenbergen [mailto:ras at e-gerbil.net] 
Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 6:07 PM
To: Stephen J. Wilcox
Cc: Deepak Jain; Miquel van Smoorenburg; nanog at merit.edu
Subject: Re: Sprint peering policy

On Tue, Jul 02, 2002 at 12:47:36AM +0100, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote:
> 
> I'm curious about all these comments on bandwidth, "few Mbs is 
> nothing", "dropping OC48 to IXs".
> 
> Theres an imbalance somewhere, everyone on this list claims to be 
> switching many gigs of data per second and yet where is it all going? 
> Not on the IX graphs anyway....
> 
> Did someone mention large bandwidths and everyone else felt they 
> needed to use similar figures or is everyone really switching that 
> amount but just hiding it well in private peerings? I know theres some 
> big networks on this list but theres a lot more small ones..

It's all so much posturing, just like the people who claim they need OC768
now or any time in the near future, or the people who sell 1Mbps customers
on the fact that their OC192 links are important.

If there is more than ~150Gbps of traffic total (counting the traffic only
once through the system) going through the US backbones I'd be very
surprised.

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