Having an inbound:outbound ration of 10:1 is known as a leech ...
--- The fact that there's a Highway to Hell but only a Stairway to Heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic volume. >-----Original Message----- >From: NANOG [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Prasun Dey >Sent: Wednesday, 19 June, 2019 14:58 >To: Aaron Gould >Cc: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Traffic ratio of an ISP > >Thank you Aaron, >This is great. This gives an interesting insight regarding CDN as >they seem to play a big role here. However, in general, what do you >call your ISP as? A 'Heavy Inbound' or 'Mostly Inbound'? Is there any >community standard about this ratio (having 1:10 or higher) to be >treated as Heavy Inbound? Or this is just a rough estimation? > >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 2:18 PM, Aaron Gould <[email protected]> >wrote: > > I run an eyeballs/isp network for about ~50,000 subscribers, and >I see about 1:10 ratio at peak time. Last night ~4.5 gbps out, ~45 >gbps in. But, I do have local caching of 4 big name cdn cache >providers, so that might alter the 1:10 ratio I see on my actual inet >links (which do not include the local cdn traffic) > > …take Netflix for instance… I see on my local nfx cdn links, >1:100 ratio of in:out. 20 gbps inbound and .2 gbps outbound (during >that same timeframe as aforementioned actual inet links) > > Numbers based on 21:00 CDT last night. > > > -Aaron >
