Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble

[Roland Perry <lists () internetpolicyagency com>]

In article <4C6030BF.1030306 () foobar org>, Nick Hilliard 
<nick () foobar org> writes
> On 09/08/2010 16:12, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> > I think, from another list about 2 yrs ago, the person responsible for
> > this data inside the company at the time (now not there) said someone
> > misinterpreted his stats/numbers...
>
> No doubt this is true.  And I note we haven't even started discussing 
> whether this "doubling every N time periods" refers to bit-rate, bytes 
> passed or daily max.

In the case of LINX traffic it was bits-per-second; any of: average, 
peak or total per day, because the shape of the daily and weekly curve 
didn't change much even over a period of years.

> I would have said that most networks during that period had occasional 
> burst growth rates of up to 100% within 100 days. The growth curve 
> second derivative is usually much bumpier than the first derivative. 
> So, regardless of source, the quotation is a truism, an urban myth and 
> ultimately means very little.

Growth at LINX was extremely steady (being an aggregate of over a 
hundred operators).
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Roland Perry