Seems you just have updated today. Thanks for letting us know. 
Last time, I checked was yesterday and based on that I mentioned your traffic 
ratio being ‘Balanced’. 

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 4:57 PM, Knopps, Brian <brian.kno...@charter.com> wrote:
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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
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> 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/ 
> <https://prasunkantidey.github.io/portfolio/>
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> 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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