RE: Trans-Atlantic Traffic

[Steve Goldstein <sgoldste () nsf gov>]

At 3:54 AM -0400 8/21/97, Thomas P. Koltai wrote:
> --- On Wed, 13 Aug 1997 23:46:56 +1000  Stuart Bryant <stuartb () ourworld net>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >   Does anyone know the kind/amount of data currently being moved either
> > way over the Atlantic links ?
>
> About 11,520,000,000 bit per hour.
>
> Tom

I can't prove it, but I have a gut feeling that it's much higher than that.
The European academic networks claim to be supporting  over 300 Mbps of
trans-Atlantic capacity.  They claim that it is almost full-up.

(300 x 10^6) x 3600 ~= 10^12,

and even at only 10% average utilization, in ONE direction, that would be
roughly 10 x your estimate.  And this is for the academic community only,
that is, no commercial links included in the estimate.

Again, just top of my head, no hard numbers.

--Steve G.