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Peering Traffic Volume
- Subject: Peering Traffic Volume
- From: patrick at ianai.net (Patrick W. Gilmore)
- Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 23:34:34 -0400
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <[email protected]>
On Mar 24, 2011, at 7:27 PM, Ravi Ramaswamy wrote:
> Hi All - I am new to this mailer. Hopefully my question is posed to the
> correct list.
>
> I am using 2.5 Tbps as the peak volume of peering traffic over all peering
> points for a Tier 1 ISP, for some modeling purposes. Is that a reasonable
> estimate?
"Tier 1 ISP" is a nebulous term.
The top few networks in the world (not all of them are "tier 1 ISPs" - and one is not even a network :) are much larger. The smaller "tier 1s" are probably that size or less.
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TTFN,
patrick