[74266] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SkyCache/Cidera replacement?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew - Supernews)
Mon Sep 20 16:19:15 2004
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <1701.65.163.76.106.1095708663.squirrel@www.dixongroup.net> (jason@dixongroup.net's
message of "Mon, 20 Sep 2004 15:31:03 -0400 (EDT)")
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 21:10:07 +0100
From: "Andrew - Supernews" <andrew@supernews.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>>>>> "jason" == jason <jason@dixongroup.net> writes:
jason> Probably. Yes.
jason> IIRC, a full feed of usenet (3 years ago) was approx 250GB+
jason> per day. The overwhelming majority of that was multi-part
jason> binaries. Cut them out and you should have plenty of room
jason> across the transponder, which (again, 3 years ago) was capable
jason> of DS3 capacity.
jason> I haven't had the misfortune of dealing with usenet feeds
jason> since then, so I'm unfamiliar with the requirements of nntp
jason> peering today.
A dedicated OC3 wouldn't really be enough any more, for the full feed
(150+ megabits at peak times, average maybe 130 megabits over a day -
i.e. 1300 - 1350 GB/day on a heavy day).
Cut out the multipart binaries upstream and you only need about a
megabit.
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Andrew, Supernews
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