On the international slide, I've seen a slide presentation from Deutche Telecom that said that half of all of its traffic stayed in country, which *I'd* label as "local". This is all WAG, tho. I'll argue that you can never measure this accurately from the network (how much traffic did you *not* count?, how much traffic was delivered on campus? is the site multihomed?), you have to measure it from the edge. To really test this you need sampling from the users, ala the Nielson method and knowledge of geography for IP addresses. Market opportunity anyone? -scott
From owner-nanog@merit.edu Wed May 27 16:36 EDT 1998 Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 16:25:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Al Reuben <alex@nac.net> To: Tom Perrine <tep@SDSC.EDU> cc: perry@piermont.com, dpickett@northc.com, nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: The Great Exchange MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-nanog@merit.edu Content-Type> : > TEXT/PLAIN> ; > charset=US-ASCII> Content-Length: 854
I'd guestimate that local peering and stuff accounts for as much as 5 to 15% of our traffic.
Perhaps someone who is actually running a local exchange can report on how much traffic they are carrying that is now not being sent to a MAE-equivalent? I think that actual experience and hard data will surprise us all.
--tep
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