Bandwidth growth

Thu Apr 21 01:55:30 UTC 2011

On Apr 20, 2011, at 9:35 PM, Curran, David wrote:

> I'm interested in any evidence (even anecdotal) that general Internet usage (and more importantly, link utilization) has increased at higher rates in the last 6-12 months than in previous periods.  Any graphs or otherwise would be greatly appreciated.  The purpose is for an internal research project and this data will only be used internally and will not be shared, nor will the sources.

<https://stats.linx.net/aggregate.html>
<http://www.ams-ix.net/historical-traffic-data/>
<http://de-cix.net/content/network.html>
<http://www.seattleix.net/agg.htm>
<http://www.torix.net/stats.php>

Etc.

I don't know if that proves your theory.  And one could argue public IX stats are actually not representative of growth, since many networks move peers to private connections as they grow.  But it is data, and it is available.

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TTFN,
patrick