Re: Traffic ratio of an ISP

[Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net>]

Yes, you seem to misunderstand (at least of what I understand). PeeringDB has categories of ratios to choose from. What 
has the community decided is acceptable ratios for each category? It's fairly trivial for any network to determine what 
their ratio is as a number, but not necessarily as a PeeringDB label. 




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From: "Josh Luthman" <josh () imaginenetworksllc com> 
To: "Prasun Dey" <prasun () nevada unr edu> 
Cc: nanog () nanog org 
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 3:23:33 PM 
Subject: Re: Traffic ratio of an ISP 


> 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 < prasun () 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/ 







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On Jun 19, 2019, at 2:13 PM, i3D.net - Martijn Schmidt < martijnschmidt () 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 < josh () imaginenetworksllc com > wrote: 
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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 < prasun () nevada unr edu > wrote: 

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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. 


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