[139836] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bandwidth growth
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Millnert)
Wed Apr 20 22:16:34 2011
In-Reply-To: <2AE1BD67-2C59-4333-A5D1-9FE9B61EA438@ianai.net>
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 22:13:24 -0400
From: Martin Millnert <millnert@gmail.com>
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Patrick W. Gilmore <patrick@ianai.net> wro=
te:
> On Apr 20, 2011, at 9:35 PM, Curran, David wrote:
>
>> I'm interested in any evidence (even anecdotal) that general Internet us=
age (and more importantly, link utilization) has increased at higher rates =
in the last 6-12 months than in previous periods. =A0Any graphs or otherwis=
e would be greatly appreciated. =A0The 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>
Growth unsurprisingly also varies by region:
http://www.msk-ix.ru/eng/traffic.html
It has seen plenty of growth recently.
If any MSK-IX staff reads this, a 3-, 5- or all-year graph would be an
interesting add!
> I don't know if that proves your theory. =A0And one could argue public IX=
stats are actually not representative of growth, since many networks move =
peers to private connections as they grow. =A0But it is data, and it is ava=
ilable.
Aggregate IX statistics also fail to identify what part of the growth
is due to people moving traffic onto IX:es, from private connections
(transits). It is certainly data, aggregate data. I wouldn't hang my
heart-lung machine off of it's accuracy in predicting individual
networks short-term traffic developments though, so to speak. :)
Regards,
Martin
