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Re: Sprint peering policy

  • From: Andrew Odlyzko
  • Date: Tue Jul 02 00:09:57 2002

	On Mon, 1 Jul 2002 21:07:06 -0400, Richard A Steenbergen wrote:

	> It's all so much posturing, just like the people who claim they need OC768
	> now or any time in the near future, or the people who sell 1Mbps customers
	> on the fact that their OC192 links are important.

	> If there is more than ~150Gbps of traffic total (counting the traffic only
	> once through the system) going through the US backbones I'd be very
	> surprised.


Several estimates floating around (*) suggest between 60 and 100 PB (petabytes) per
month of US backbone traffic, which works out to 180 and 300 Gb/s average traffic.

Andrew Odlyzko

(*) See my papers at <http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/networks.html>, or a recent
(and about to be updated) report from RHK.