[10566] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet Backbone Index
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Laughlin)
Wed Jul 9 19:15:29 1997
Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 19:02:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert Laughlin <robert@portal.dx.net>
Reply-To: Robert Laughlin <robert@portal.dx.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <QQcxmi28641.199707091905@bohica.UU.NET>
In response to the *smart* comments (not repeated here), the percentages
given are of external traffic only. The 2% not accounted for is due to
rounding down the results. I suppose I can do it to more decimal places if
you really want it. Also we do retain lots of our own traffic, but I felt
it was irrevalent for the purposes of this discussion, so retained traffic
was not included in the calculations.
Best Regards,
Robert Laughlin
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> > DataXchange purchases transit from uunet, mci & sprint. But we also
> > aggressively try to peer with those who wish to peer. Gary, you are wrong
> > to say that 90% of traffic is for uunet, mci or sprint. I have the
> > statistics on my own network to prove this. Typically we see a breakdown
> > like this:
> >
> > MCI 22%
> > Sprint 7%
> > UUNET 21%
> > all other (via peering) 48%
> >
> > In our opinion since only 52% of the traffic has its best routing thru
> > uunet, sprint & mci, bi-lateral peering is definately worthwhile.
> >
