Re: Study: Most Internet traffic bypasses tier-one networks

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Bob Poortinga <ip () k9sql us>
Date: October 14, 2009 8:59:26 AM PDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] Re: Study: Most Internet traffic bypasses tier-one  
networks

"Mike O'Dell" <mo () ccr org> writes:

> that is a completely wacky statement. i don't believe *anyone*
> knows much of anything about "most Internet traffic", other than
> it's carried in IP datagrams. the network operators have enough  
> trouble
> making sense of their own networks. i find it hard to believe that
> some random 15th party has sweeping insights about the global
> Big-I Internet. i don't even believe it about North America.

This is hardly a 15th party study.  Details can be found at:
<http://tinyurl.com/yln4ogf> (arbornetworks.com)

Results of the study will be presented at NANOG47.

Excerpts:

• The report is believed to be the largest study of global Internet
traffic since the start of the commercial Internet in the mid-1990s.
The report offers analysis of two years worth of detailed traffic
statistics from 110 large and geographically diverse cable operators,
international transit backbones, regional networks and content
providers.

• At its peak, the study monitored more than 12 terabits-per-second
and a total of more than 256 exabytes of Internet traffic over the
two-year life of the study.

• Unlike other Internet traffic trend reports, the Internet
Observatory Report provides a truly-global view into traffic trends as
a result of Arbor’s “trusted partner” status amongst the Internet
Service Provider (ISP) community. A main source of Internet traffic
data analyzed for the Internet Observatory report was gathered from
ATLAS data – an ongoing collaborative effort with 100+ ISPs,
distributed globally across 17 countries, all who have agreed to share
anonymous security, traffic and routing data on an hourly basis.


--
Bob Poortinga  K9SQL
Bloomington, IN  US




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