Look at the population of 100G ports at the SIX in Seattle as well. I think there's a total of maybe four 40G members out of hundreds. 100G really is the new 10.
On Sun, Aug 27, 2023, 10:56 PM Daniel Marks via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote: > (Enterprise AS for context) > > This hasn’t been my experience in the US, however we mostly deal in tier 2 > markets (I.e. Detroit, Miami, Dallas, etc…) and we have plenty of 40G > private interconnects. I don’t doubt 40G is going away, I’ve just never had > trouble using it around here. > > The only time we’ve been asked to run something other than 40G was because > we like to run our ports very hot (latency insensitive traffic) and some > networks do not tolerate consistently high utilization of their ports. > > Different story in Japan, it’s 100G+ or nothing. You just have to find > someone willing to peer with you in the first place… > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Aug 27, 2023, at 23:43, Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> wrote: > > > > On 8/28/23 03:05, Mike Hammett wrote: > > Well, or they simply found a potential deal on hardware that came with 40 > gig ports. 40 gigs is still a lot of bits to a lot of people. > > > For internal use, sure. > > But when connecting to another AS, the chances of them supporting 40Gbps > in one or more places is inconsistent to slim. > > Exchange points may be an exception. > > Mark. > >