Traffic ratio of an ISP

Thu Jun 20 20:48:07 UTC 2019

Thanks Valdis for clarifying this. Based on this thread discussion, I’m getting this understanding as well. 

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Prasun

Regards,
Prasun Kanti Dey
Ph.D. Candidate,
Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Central Florida
web: https://prasunkantidey.github.io/portfolio/

> On Jun 20, 2019, at 10:28 AM, Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 16:20:37 -0400, Prasun Dey said:
>> So, my question was more like to understand when an ISP decides to claim
>> itself as any of these (Heavy Outbound/ Inbound or Balanced)? From an ISP’s own
>> point of view, at what point, it says, my outbound:inbound is something, so I’m
>> Heavy Outbound.
> 
> Often, just "We're eyeballs, so heavily inbound" or similar quick estimation
> with no real numbers attached.  Otherwise, often whatever the ISP's management
> thinks will give the best results when trying to convince another network to
> peer rather than have to pay for transit, or other similar reasons often only
> vaguely connected to reality.
> 
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