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From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Josh Luthman
Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 3:24 PM
To: Prasun Dey
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: Traffic ratio of an ISP

>my question was more like to understand when an ISP decides to claim itself as 
>any of these (Heavy Outbound/ Inbound or Balanced)

Maybe I'm missing something but it's as simple as looking at the interface 
graphs.  We see a whole lot of green for inbound and a little little blue line 
for outbound.  We are an ISP with residential and commercial customers.

Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373


On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 4:20 PM Prasun Dey 
<pra...@nevada.unr.edu<mailto:pra...@nevada.unr.edu>> wrote:
Hi Martijn and Josh,
Thank you for your detailed explanation. Let me explain my requirement so that 
you may help me better.
According to PeeringDB, Charter (Access), Sprint (Transit), Amazon (Content) 
all three of them are ‘Balanced’. While, Cable One, an Access ISP says it is 
Heavy Inbound, while Akamai, Netflix (Content) are Heavy Outbound. On the other 
hand, Cox, another access ISP, it says that it is Mostly Inbound.
So, my question was more like to understand when an ISP decides to claim itself 
as any of these (Heavy Outbound/ Inbound or Balanced)? From an ISP’s own point 
of view, at what point, it says, my outbound:inbound is something, so I’m Heavy 
Outbound.
Please ignore my lack of knowledge in this area. I’m sorry I should’ve done a 
better job in formulating my question earlier.
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 2:13 PM, i3D.net<http://i3D.net> - Martijn Schmidt 
<martijnschm...@i3d.net<mailto:martijnschm...@i3d.net>> wrote:

It kinda depends on the application that's being used. For example, videogaming 
has a ratio somewhere around 1:2.5 since you're only transmitting metadata 
about the players environment across the wire. The actual video is typically 
rendered at the end user's side. So it's not very bandwidth heavy.

Compare that with a videostream (watching a movie or TV series) and you're 
pumping the rendered video across the wire, so there's a very different ratio. 
Your return path traffic would pretty much consist of control stuff only (like 
pushing the pause button).

Some networks are dedicated to serving one type of content, whereas others 
might have a blend of different kinds of content. Same story for an access 
network geared to business users which want to use emails and such, vs 
residential end users looking for the evening's entertainment.

Best regards,
Martijn
On 19 June 2019 19:54:45 CEST, Josh Luthman 
<j...@imaginenetworksllc.com<mailto:j...@imaginenetworksllc.com>> wrote:
If you're asking an ISP, consumers will always be inbound.  It's the end user.  
The outbound would be where the information is coming from, like data centers.

I'm not sure you're going to get any better answer without a more specific 
question.

Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373


On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 12:50 PM Prasun Dey 
<pra...@nevada.unr.edu<mailto:pra...@nevada.unr.edu>> wrote:
Hello,
Good morning.
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.
I’d really appreciate your help if you can please mention what Outbound:Inbound 
ratios that network admins use frequently to represent their traffic ratios for
1. Heavy Inbound:
2. Mostly Inbound:
3. Mostly Outbound:
4. Heavy Outbound:

Thank you.
-
Prasun
--
Sincerely,
Prasun Kanti Dey,
Ph.D. candidate,
Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
University of Central Florida.

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