[6419] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Exchanges that matter...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Dixon)
Thu Dec 5 04:53:50 1996
Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 09:57:45 +0000 (GMT)
From: Jim Dixon <jdd@vbc.net>
To: "Alex.Bligh" <amb@xara.net>
cc: Scott Huddle <huddle@mci.net>, amb@xara.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199612050945.JAA07415@diamond.xara.net>
On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Alex.Bligh wrote:
> > If you'ld allow me to restate it. Do you mean that of all
> > the traffic sourced to you from customers within the UK,
> > 50% of that traffic is destined for other UK sites either
> > to your own customers or exiting out an in country exchange
> > point?
> >
> > The remaining 50% of your traffic sourced within the UK
> > is destined for outside of the country, and of this 50%,
> > 50% of that is destined for Linx, 40% to the US, and
> > 10% to Stockholm.
> >
> > Is this correct?
>
> Yes.
I think that what Alex really should say 'No'. What he saying is
that for Xara UK-sourced traffic is split like this:
50% is sent to UK peers at the LINX in London
40% goes to the USA
10% goes to dGIX in Stockholm
Agreed, Alex?
> In fact it means more than that as it works in both
> directions. Traffic on our network because it is travelling
> between customers of ours in the UK and hosts they are
> communicating over the world, 50% is handed of at LINX,
> 40% in the US and 10% at Stockholm. I haven't measured
> ...
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