[139011] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Peering Traffic Volume
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles N Wyble)
Thu Mar 24 23:47:34 2011
Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 22:43:11 -0500
From: Charles N Wyble <charles@knownelement.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <412AB716-82AD-4152-AADA-2384144D6A02@ianai.net>
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On 3/24/2011 10:34 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> On Mar 24, 2011, at 7:27 PM, Ravi Ramaswamy wrote:
>
> "Tier 1 ISP" is a nebulous term.
Indeed it is. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peering and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tier_1_network for more information. I'm
guessing you are using Tier 1 to refer to $LARGE_TELCOS (ATT/VZ/L3)
and I'm guessing their sustained daily traffic volume is well over 10tb.
> The top few networks in the world (not all of them are "tier 1 ISPs" - and one is not even a network :)
Facebook and google probably push that much traffic daily. I used to
work for a company that did 100Gbps sustained on a daily basis.
> are much larger. The smaller "tier 1s" are probably that size or less.
I agree.
