Thanks Valdis for mentioning the classifications. I’ve used ISPs as generic word. But, you’re right, it’d be better if I had distinguished the CPs, ISPs or the Transits specifically. However, thanks to the community, they’ve understood and provided me some really helpful answers. - Prasun Regards, Prasun Kanti Dey Ph.D. Candidate, Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Central Florida web: https://prasunkantidey.github.io/portfolio/
On Jun 19, 2019, at 10:10 PM, Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 11:05:40 -0400, Prasun Dey said:
I’ve seen from PeeringDB that every ISP reveals its traffic ratio as Heavy/ Mostly Inbound or Balanced or Heavy/ Mostly Outbound. I’m wondering if there is any specific ratio numbers for them
If they're an ISP that sells to end user consumers, they're going to be a heavy eyeball traffic - all the big packets are coming inbound from content providers and going to consumers.
Content providers will of course show lots of big packets heading outwards toward eyeball networks - but those usually aren't called ISPs.
If they're selling mostly transit, then they're more likely to be balanced, but again, then they're probably not really an "ISP" as the word is usually used.