[110494] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Estimate of satellite vs. Land-based traffic
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Tue Jan 6 15:46:36 2009
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 15:46:29 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: Kevin.Smith@dca.state.fl.us
In-Reply-To: <OF87551143.CE2367A0-ON85257536.00710605@dca.state.fl.us>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009, Kevin.Smith@dca.state.fl.us wrote:
> Participting in a severe solar event EXERCISE. Can anyone give me an
> educated guesstimate of the percentage of backbone traffic that is
> satellite dependent vs. that which is totally land-based?
The last FCC statistics I found researching this last year.
2006
Satellites carry 0.22% of US international circuits. There are 14,346 US
international circuits via satellite.
<http://www.donelan.com/overseas.html>
