Traffic ratio of an ISP

Alejandro Acosta alejandroacostaalamo at gmail.com
Thu Jun 20 01:00:25 UTC 2019


Hello,

  Many years ago I read somewhere that the ratio between inbound &
outbound traffic we used to see at that time was going to change in the
future, the reasons they mentioned at that time was because the
applications would change their behavior, things like: Dropbox, Gdrive
and others would consume upload traffic, I guess these hypotheses
remained in the past.

Alejandro,


On 6/19/19 11:05 AM, Prasun Dey wrote:
> Hello,
> Good morning.
> I’m a Ph.D. candidate from University of Central Florida. I have a
> query, I hope you can help me with it or at least point me to the
> right direction.
> I’ve seen from PeeringDB that every ISP reveals its traffic ratio as
> Heavy/ Mostly Inbound or Balanced or Heavy/ Mostly Outbound. 
> I’m wondering if there is any specific ratio numbers for them. In
> Norton’s Internet Peering Playbook or some other literary work, they
> mention the outbound:inbound traffic ratio as 1:1.2 to up to 1:3 for
> Balanced. But, I couldn’t find the other values.
> I’d really appreciate your help if you can please mention what
> Outbound:Inbound ratios that network admins use frequently to
> represent their traffic ratios for 
> 1. Heavy Inbound:
> 2. Mostly Inbound:
> 3. Mostly Outbound:
> 4. Heavy Outbound:
>
> Thank you.
> -
> Prasun
> -- 
> Sincerely,
> Prasun Kanti Dey,
> Ph.D. candidate,
> Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
> University of Central Florida.
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