AMS-IX claims to be world's largest public 'net exchange
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/19/ams_ix_record/ "The Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) is claiming to be the world's largest public Internet exchange, after setting a new traffic record earlier this month of 233Gbit/s. It says it now shifts more than 1.5 Petabytes a day, on behalf of over 250 ISPs and carriers." How do our IX's compare? Obviously we won't be even close, a state of affairs not aided in any way by certain policies of certain telcos, but it'd be interesting to know how much traffic does actually traverse, in particular, APE and WIX. -- Matthew Poole "Don't use force. Get a bigger hammer."
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 10:31:43AM +1300, Matthew Poole said:
How do our IX's compare? Obviously we won't be even close, a state of affairs not aided in any way by certain policies of certain telcos, but it'd be interesting to know how much traffic does actually traverse, in particular, APE and WIX.
I imagine we'll be talking about this at NZNOG next week, assuming we can fabricate some interesting data. Exchange consumption seems to be at least partially related to nearby population density, so it's not hugely suprising that we don't get within cooee. Cheers Si
Matthew Poole wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/19/ams_ix_record/
"The Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) is claiming to be the world's largest public Internet exchange, after setting a new traffic record earlier this month of 233Gbit/s. It says it now shifts more than 1.5 Petabytes a day, on behalf of over 250 ISPs and carriers."
Interestingly the AMS-IX is also the peering point for (nearly*) all the GSM roaming mobile data of the world. I wouldn't think this adds too many gigabytes, but it shows how successful they are with their niche-cutting. Cheers, Bruce * I assume/hope intra-GRX and also some intra-country traffic is not *all* routed via the Netherlands.
-----Original Message----- From: Bruce Fitzsimons [mailto:Bruce(a)Fitzsimons.org] Sent: Tuesday, 23 January 2007 7:26 p.m. To: Matthew Poole Cc: NZNOG Subject: Re: [nznog] AMS-IX claims to be world's largest public 'net exchange
Interestingly the AMS-IX is also the peering point for (nearly*) all the GSM roaming mobile data of the world. I wouldn't think this adds too many gigabytes, but it shows how successful they are with their niche-cutting.
I wonder if the exchange benefits from certain New Zealand carriers who charge $30NZD/megabyte for said roaming mobile data. Quite a racket. -JB
On 23-Jan-2007, at 01:25, Bruce Fitzsimons wrote:
Matthew Poole wrote:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/19/ams_ix_record/
"The Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) is claiming to be the world's largest public Internet exchange, after setting a new traffic record earlier this month of 233Gbit/s. It says it now shifts more than 1.5 Petabytes a day, on behalf of over 250 ISPs and carriers."
Interestingly the AMS-IX is also the peering point for (nearly*) all the GSM roaming mobile data of the world. I wouldn't think this adds too many gigabytes, but it shows how successful they are with their niche-cutting.
The mobile/cellular data isn't counted in the 233Gbit/s, and even if it was the total would still be 233Gbit/s :-) Joe
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