In article <4C6030BF.1030306@foobar.org>, Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> writes
On 09/08/2010 16:12, Christopher Morrow wrote:
I think, from another list about 2 yrs ago, the person responsible for this data inside the company at the time (now not there) said someone misinterpreted his stats/numbers...
No doubt this is true. And I note we haven't even started discussing whether this "doubling every N time periods" refers to bit-rate, bytes passed or daily max.
In the case of LINX traffic it was bits-per-second; any of: average, peak or total per day, because the shape of the daily and weekly curve didn't change much even over a period of years.
I would have said that most networks during that period had occasional burst growth rates of up to 100% within 100 days. The growth curve second derivative is usually much bumpier than the first derivative. So, regardless of source, the quotation is a truism, an urban myth and ultimately means very little.
Growth at LINX was extremely steady (being an aggregate of over a hundred operators). -- Roland Perry