[49485] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sprint peering policy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Odlyzko)
Tue Jul 2 00:06:48 2002
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 23:03:45 -0500
From: Andrew Odlyzko <odlyzko@dtc.umn.edu>
To: ras@e-gerbil.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 21:07:06 -0400, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
> It's all so much posturing, just like the people who claim they need OC768
> now or any time in the near future, or the people who sell 1Mbps customers
> on the fact that their OC192 links are important.
> If there is more than ~150Gbps of traffic total (counting the traffic only
> once through the system) going through the US backbones I'd be very
> surprised.
Several estimates floating around (*) suggest between 60 and 100 PB (petabytes) per
month of US backbone traffic, which works out to 180 and 300 Gb/s average traffic.
Andrew Odlyzko
(*) See my papers at <http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/networks.html>, or a recent
(and about to be updated) report from RHK.
