Thanks Valdis for mentioning the classifications. I’ve used ISPs as generic word. But, you’re right, it’d be better if I had distinguished the CPs, ISPs or the Transits specifically. However, thanks to the community, they’ve understood and provided me some really helpful answers.
- 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 10:10 PM, Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu> > wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 11:05:40 -0400, Prasun Dey said: > >> 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 > > If they're an ISP that sells to end user consumers, they're going to be a > heavy > eyeball traffic - all the big packets are coming inbound from content > providers and > going to consumers. > > Content providers will of course show lots of big packets heading outwards > toward > eyeball networks - but those usually aren't called ISPs. > > If they're selling mostly transit, then they're more likely to be balanced, > but > again, then they're probably not really an "ISP" as the word is usually used. >
