[139009] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Peering Traffic Volume
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Thu Mar 24 23:36:06 2011
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikOo5zWiuL2_JuSo3PFdt+4uYf83nPhCLY=HLbi@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 23:34:34 -0400
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On Mar 24, 2011, at 7:27 PM, Ravi Ramaswamy wrote:
> Hi All - I am new to this mailer. Hopefully my question is posed to =
the
> correct list.
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> I am using 2.5 Tbps as the peak volume of peering traffic over all =
peering
> points for a Tier 1 ISP, for some modeling purposes. Is that a =
reasonable
> estimate?
"Tier 1 ISP" is a nebulous term.
The top few networks in the world (not all of them are "tier 1 ISPs" - =
and one is not even a network :) are much larger. The smaller "tier 1s" =
are probably that size or less.
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TTFN,
patrick