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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" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> 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. > >
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