Re: NY ranks #1 in Internet b/w

["Nipper, Arnold" <arnold () nipper de>]

But if you look at trunks going into *another* country the same report comes
to this ranking.

 London
 Paris
 New York
 Amsterdam
 Frankfurt

This report also says that the relevance of US for Internet is decreasing.
As ever:  never trust a statistic unless you faked it yourself ...


-- Arnold


----- Original Message -----
From: "Hank Nussbacher" <hank () att net il>
To: <nanog () merit edu>
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2001 8:41 AM
Subject: NY ranks #1 in Internet b/w


> Perhaps Sept 11 was no coincidence and perhaps they knew of these numbers
> as well.   -Hank
>
> http://www.totaltele.com/view.asp?ArticleID=45236&pub=tt&categoryid=626
>
> New York is the Internet capital - TeleGeography
> By Total Telecom staff
>
> 30 October 2001
>
> New York is the world's Internet capital in terms of bandwidth
> connectivity, according to Washington DC-based research group
TeleGeography
> Inc.
>
> With almost 150 Gbps of region-to-region bandwidth connectivity, the Big
> Apple is hooked up to more than two-thirds of all interregional Internet
> capacity worldwide. London comes a long way second, with just over 85
Gbps.
> According to the TeleGeography report, Packet Geography 2002, New York has
> direct connections into 71 other countries, 10 more than London.
>
> The report ranks global Internet cities according to their roles as
> "interregional hub cities," measuring how much Internet capacity links
them
> to other world regions. After NY and London, Amsterdam, Paris, and San
> Francisco complete the Internet global city top five.
>
> In all, five of the top 10 cities are in the U.S., four are in Europe, and
> one, Tokyo, is in Asia. Although Europe and Asia each have major hub
> locations, most Internet traffic between Asia and Europe still traverses
> U.S. coast-to-coast routes. Indeed, according to the report, 13 of the top
> 25 companies providing international Internet connections in the U.S. are
> based outside of North America.
>
> The Top 10 in full is:
>
> 1. New York (149,989.5 Mbps of Internet bandwidth)
> 2. London (85,518.7 Mbps)
> 3. Amsterdam (24,479.6 Mbps)
> 4. Paris (22,551.8 Mbps)
> 5. San Francisco (20,813.6 Mbps)
> 6. Tokyo (16,745.5 Mbps)
> 7. Washington DC (13,261.2 Mbps)
> 8. Miami (11,912.4 Mbps)
> 9. Los Angeles (11,227.0 Mbps)
> 10. Copenhagen (10,417.0 Mbps)
> Note: Figures represent Internet bandwidth connected across international
> borders to Consolidated Metropolitan Statistical Areas or equivalents.
> Domestic routes are omitted. Data as of mid-2001.
>
> This report can be purchased through Total Telecom's 'Reports and
Research'
> resource. Click here for more details.