Hi William, Ha ha! Thanks for pointing that out. I’m not related to any ISP at all, so this is something new. I understand, PeeringDB is just a basic guideline and ISPs put their own information about their traffic ratios. I’m interested to know whether ISPs check their own accumulated traffic and then set their own outbound:inbound traffic ratios threshold to declare themselves as Heavy Outbound/ Inbound or Balanced. Or, is there some kind of rough understanding among networking community to treat certain ratios as Heavy/ Mostly Inbound/ Outbound. Thank you.
- 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 2:14 PM, William Herrin <b...@herrin.us> wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 9:50 AM Prasun Dey <pra...@nevada.unr.edu > <mailto:pra...@nevada.unr.edu>> wrote: > > I’m a Ph.D. candidate from University of Central Florida. I have a query, I > > hope you can help me with it or at least point me to the right direction. > > 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. In Norton’s > > Internet Peering Playbook or some other literary work, they mention the > > outbound:inbound traffic ratio as 1:1.2 to up to 1:3 for Balanced. But, I > > couldn’t find the other values. > > Hi Prasun, > > Ratio only masquerades as a technical term. It's whatever it takes to > convince the other guy to set up settlement-free peering and you'll tweak > your routing adjusting reality to match. The information in peeringdb is just > a rough guide to help you figure out who to talk to as you try to adjust your > traffic profile so that you can go after the big fish as "balanced." > > Regards, > Bill Herrin > > > -- > William Herrin > b...@herrin.us <mailto:b...@herrin.us> > https://bill.herrin.us/ <https://bill.herrin.us/>
