From: Joerg Micheel (joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz)
Date: Thu Aug 16 2001 - 15:05:30 PDT
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[From www.convergedigest.com]
US INTERNET TRAFFIC GROWS 400% DURING LAST YEAR
According to a study by Caspian Networks founder and CTO Dr. Lawrence
Roberts, US Internet traffic on core IP service providers’ networks
increased four times between April 2000 and April 2001. Internet traffic is
doubling every six months on average. This compares to an average growth
rate of 2.8 times per year since 1997. The study sampled network traffic
from the top 19 US data carriers in April 2000, October 2000 and April 2001.
Roberts believes that 80% of US Internet traffic is generated by businesses,
and says that international traffic is still growing at the “pre-2000 growth
rate of 2.8x per year.” The study also found that 50% of all Internet
traffic is carried by the top four ISPs. Roberts described his work as the
first scientific study quantifying Internet traffic across the leading
carriers since The National Science Foundation stopped tracking U.S.
Internet traffic in 1996.
http://www.caspiannetworks.com/pressroom/press/08.15.01.shtml
Caspian Networks, August 15th, 2001
A PowerPoint presentation of the results is available at
http://www.caspiannetworks.com/library/presentations/traffic/Internet_Traffi
c_081301.ppt
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Hard to believe. Anyone who could back up this study ?
Joerg
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