Thanks Valdis for clarifying this. Based on this thread discussion, I’m getting this understanding as well.
- 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 20, 2019, at 10:28 AM, Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletni...@vt.edu> > wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 16:20:37 -0400, Prasun Dey said: >> 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. > > Often, just "We're eyeballs, so heavily inbound" or similar quick estimation > with no real numbers attached. Otherwise, often whatever the ISP's management > thinks will give the best results when trying to convince another network to > peer rather than have to pay for transit, or other similar reasons often only > vaguely connected to reality. >
