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Re: Bandwidth growth

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Wed Apr 20 21:55:41 2011

From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <C9D4FCC7.B4B5%david.curran@windstream.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 21:55:30 -0400
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Apr 20, 2011, at 9:35 PM, Curran, David wrote:

> I'm interested in any evidence (even anecdotal) that general Internet =
usage (and more importantly, link utilization) has increased at higher =
rates in the last 6-12 months than in previous periods.  Any graphs or =
otherwise would be greatly appreciated.  The purpose is for an internal =
research project and this data will only be used internally and will not =
be shared, nor will the sources.

<https://stats.linx.net/aggregate.html>
<http://www.ams-ix.net/historical-traffic-data/>
<http://de-cix.net/content/network.html>
<http://www.seattleix.net/agg.htm>
<http://www.torix.net/stats.php>

Etc.

I don't know if that proves your theory.  And one could argue public IX =
stats are actually not representative of growth, since many networks =
move peers to private connections as they grow.  But it is data, and it =
is available.

--=20
TTFN,
patrick



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