>my question was more like to understand when an ISP decides to claim itself as any of these (Heavy Outbound/ Inbound or Balanced)
Maybe I'm missing something but it's as simple as looking at the interface graphs. We see a whole lot of green for inbound and a little little blue line for outbound. We are an ISP with residential and commercial customers. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 4:20 PM Prasun Dey <pra...@nevada.unr.edu> wrote: > Hi Martijn and Josh, > Thank you for your detailed explanation. Let me explain my requirement so > that you may help me better. > According to PeeringDB, Charter (Access), Sprint (Transit), Amazon > (Content) all three of them are ‘Balanced’. While, Cable One, an Access ISP > says it is Heavy Inbound, while Akamai, Netflix (Content) are Heavy > Outbound. On the other hand, Cox, another access ISP, it says that it is > Mostly Inbound. > So, my question was more like to understand when an ISP decides to claim > itself as any of these (Heavy Outbound/ Inbound or Balanced)? From an ISP’s > own point of view, at what point, it says, my outbound:inbound is > something, so I’m Heavy Outbound. > Please ignore my lack of knowledge in this area. I’m sorry I should’ve > done a better job in formulating my question earlier. > Thank you. > > - > Prasun > > Regards, > Prasun Kanti Dey > Ph.D. Candidate, > Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering, > University of Central Florida > web: https://prasunkantidey.github.io/portfolio/ > > > > > > > On Jun 19, 2019, at 2:13 PM, i3D.net - Martijn Schmidt < > martijnschm...@i3d.net> wrote: > > It kinda depends on the application that's being used. For example, > videogaming has a ratio somewhere around 1:2.5 since you're only > transmitting metadata about the players environment across the wire. The > actual video is typically rendered at the end user's side. So it's not very > bandwidth heavy. > > Compare that with a videostream (watching a movie or TV series) and you're > pumping the rendered video across the wire, so there's a very different > ratio. Your return path traffic would pretty much consist of control stuff > only (like pushing the pause button). > > Some networks are dedicated to serving one type of content, whereas others > might have a blend of different kinds of content. Same story for an access > network geared to business users which want to use emails and such, vs > residential end users looking for the evening's entertainment. > > Best regards, > Martijn > > On 19 June 2019 19:54:45 CEST, Josh Luthman <j...@imaginenetworksllc.com> > wrote: >> >> If you're asking an ISP, consumers will always be inbound. It's the end >> user. The outbound would be where the information is coming from, like >> data centers. >> >> I'm not sure you're going to get any better answer without a more >> specific question. >> >> Josh Luthman >> Office: 937-552-2340 >> Direct: 937-552-2343 >> 1100 Wayne St >> Suite 1337 >> Troy, OH 45373 >> >> >> On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 12:50 PM Prasun Dey <pra...@nevada.unr.edu> >> wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> Good morning. >>> I’m a Ph.D. candidate from University of Central Florida. I have a >>> query, I hope you can help me with it or at least point me to the right >>> direction. >>> I’ve seen from PeeringDB that every ISP reveals its traffic ratio as >>> Heavy/ Mostly Inbound or Balanced or Heavy/ Mostly Outbound. >>> I’m wondering if there is any specific ratio numbers for them. In >>> Norton’s Internet Peering Playbook or some other literary work, they >>> mention the outbound:inbound traffic ratio as 1:1.2 to up to 1:3 for >>> Balanced. But, I couldn’t find the other values. >>> I’d really appreciate your help if you can please mention what >>> Outbound:Inbound ratios that network admins use frequently to represent >>> their traffic ratios for >>> 1. Heavy Inbound: >>> 2. Mostly Inbound: >>> 3. Mostly Outbound: >>> 4. Heavy Outbound: >>> >>> Thank you. >>> - >>> Prasun >>> -- >>> Sincerely, >>> Prasun Kanti Dey, >>> Ph.D. candidate, >>> Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, >>> University of Central Florida. >>> >> > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > > >