At 05:20 PM 8/16/2001 -0700, k claffy wrote:
"We are also seeing that 50 percent of the traffic is being carried by four of the major ISPs," says Roberts. Those being AOL (NASDAQ:AOL), MSN, Earthlink, and SBC.
Serious question: What about EarthLink's non-EarthLink-owned modems? (They do lease some modems, I have dialed into one before. :) And what about NetZero-type companies that outsource all of their modems? If he is measuring traffic off routers, I do not see how he could differentiate between traffic on modem leased by $PROVIDER_A and traffic on that same modem an hour later leased by $PROVIDER_B. Also, does he, or anyone else, have any explanation why [insert favorite obvious big backbone] is missing from that list? I know most of the ASes I used to see as "big" are not listed. -- TTFN, patrick