--- On Wed, 13 Aug 1997 23:46:56 +1000 Stuart Bryant <stuartb@ourworld.net> wrote:
Hi, Does anyone know the kind/amount of data currently being moved either way over the Atlantic links ?
About 11,520,000,000 bit per hour. Tom -------------------------------------------------- Thomas P. Koltai Mobile: +61-419-333331 187 Liverpool Street, Sydney NSW Australia 2000 --------------------------------------------------
At 3:54 AM -0400 8/21/97, Thomas P. Koltai wrote:
--- On Wed, 13 Aug 1997 23:46:56 +1000 Stuart Bryant <stuartb@ourworld.net> wrote:
Hi, Does anyone know the kind/amount of data currently being moved either way over the Atlantic links ?
About 11,520,000,000 bit per hour.
Tom
I can't prove it, but I have a gut feeling that it's much higher than that. The European academic networks claim to be supporting over 300 Mbps of trans-Atlantic capacity. They claim that it is almost full-up. (300 x 10^6) x 3600 ~= 10^12, and even at only 10% average utilization, in ONE direction, that would be roughly 10 x your estimate. And this is for the academic community only, that is, no commercial links included in the estimate. Again, just top of my head, no hard numbers. --Steve G.
According to http://www.switch.ch/switch/lan/stat/linkusa.html , the average data rates on our transatlantic links over the last year was around 2260 kbps inbound (eastbound) and 1250 kbps outbound. The links have been upgraded from 2 E1s to 4 E1s during that time. We are one of the smaller European research networks - numbers from e.g. the German WIN or the Scandinavian NORDUnet will be much higher. There are many of these small links over the pond. I'd be interested in whether (and if so: how) different providers manage to save costs by sharing fast transcontinental lines among themselves. -- Simon.
On Wed, 20 Aug 1997, Simon Leinen wrote:
There are many of these small links over the pond. I'd be interested in whether (and if so: how) different providers manage to save costs by sharing fast transcontinental lines among themselves.
There are also many E3/DS3s over the pond as well. Close to 20 or so from what I know of... -dorian
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