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Re: Peering Traffic Volume

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin M. Streiner)
Fri Mar 25 07:09:42 2011

Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 03:13:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Justin M. Streiner" <streiner@cluebyfour.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikOo5zWiuL2_JuSo3PFdt+4uYf83nPhCLY=HLbi@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 24 Mar 2011, Ravi Ramaswamy wrote:

> Hi All - I am new to this mailer.  Hopefully my question is posed to the
> correct list.
>
> 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?

Possibly.  The reason I say that is because the details of many ISPs' 
peering arrangements are often subject to NDA, so there is often a cone of 
silence around those bits.

jms


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