The original comment I made was regarding the amount of traffic people suggest they have on their networks.
I know UU, L3, Sprint, Verio etc will carry many gigabits but it was concerning the average list member rather than the exceptional major player... Answers so far vary.. Steve On 2 Jul 2002, Giles Heron wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 02:00, Grant A. Kirkwood wrote: > > > > At 09:54 PM 7/1/2002 -0400, Phil Rosenthal wrote: > > > > >My math shows ~500bps per US citizen: > > >Assuming 150,000,000,000 bits and 280,000,000 citizens. > > > > This also assumes US citizens don't sleep. > > and that non-US citizens never send traffic through the US or send > traffic to/from servers in the US. > > Given that traffic from Europe to Asia almost always goes via the US, > and given that it isn't unheard of for traffic between major European > ASs to go via the US (e.g. 702 and 9057 right now) then the former > assumption is clearly untrue. > > I think the fact that I'm sending this invalidates the second one? > > Giles > > > > -- > > Grant A. Kirkwood - grant(at)tnarg.org > > Fingerprint = D337 48C4 4D00 232D 3444 1D5D 27F6 055A BF0C 4AED > > > > >
