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But what are numbers for network traffic (percentage of petabytes transmitted)?

by noizejoy 6y ago

walrus01 6y ago
From an ISP perspective with a lot of singlehomed business and residential users, the vast majority of traffic by volume in Gbps is not immediately obvious as porno. It's normal looking traffic coming from the major CDNs, youtube, netflix, amazon, hulu, etc. And then from the big cloud providers (amazon aws, google/gcp, azure, etc) For a small ISP that's purely buying transit, once they establish a presence at a major IX point and can peer with some huge content sources, it'll drop their transit bill in half almost immediately. Then you do have porno content coming from huge hosting companies/entities such as Choopa. https://www.peeringdb.com/net/813 https://www.peeringdb.com/net/813 It's actually pretty rare to peer directly with a porn host, if I had to guess at it, I'd say most of the traffic is coming in via transits such as hurricane, cogent, telia, ntt, etc. one note, ISP traffic isn't measured in disk space measurements like terabytes or petabytes, it's measured in present tense Mbps or Gbps.
- noizejoy 6y ago
  Sounds to me like it’s quite difficult to determine traffic percentages then. - Which in turn makes any discussion of “porn is x% of the Internet” kind of impossible to have in a realistic way.
  - walrus01 6y ago
    Yes and no. When during peak evening traffic, by netflow analysis and sheer volume in Gbps on discrete peering connections, I can confidently say that 40%+ of the entire aggregate incoming traffic is netflix, youtube and amazon video, therefore that's 40% at minimum which for certain is not porn.
LordDragonfang 6y ago
I tried specifically to find those numbers, but finally gave up since the most I could find was (barely) educated guessing on sites like quora. If anyone can find those numbers, I'd love to see it.

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But what are numbers for network traffic (percentage of petabytes transmitted)?

by noizejoy 6y ago

But what are numbers for network traffic (percentage of petabytes transmitted)?

walrus01 6y ago
From an ISP perspective with a lot of singlehomed business and residential users, the vast majority of traffic by volume in Gbps is not immediately obvious as porno. It's normal looking traffic coming from the major CDNs, youtube, netflix, amazon, hulu, etc. And then from the big cloud providers (amazon aws, google/gcp, azure, etc) For a small ISP that's purely buying transit, once they establish a presence at a major IX point and can peer with some huge content sources, it'll drop their transit bill in half almost immediately. Then you do have porno content coming from huge hosting companies/entities such as Choopa. https://www.peeringdb.com/net/813 https://www.peeringdb.com/net/813 It's actually pretty rare to peer directly with a porn host, if I had to guess at it, I'd say most of the traffic is coming in via transits such as hurricane, cogent, telia, ntt, etc. one note, ISP traffic isn't measured in disk space measurements like terabytes or petabytes, it's measured in present tense Mbps or Gbps.
- noizejoy 6y ago
  Sounds to me like it’s quite difficult to determine traffic percentages then. - Which in turn makes any discussion of “porn is x% of the Internet” kind of impossible to have in a realistic way.
  - walrus01 6y ago
    Yes and no. When during peak evening traffic, by netflow analysis and sheer volume in Gbps on discrete peering connections, I can confidently say that 40%+ of the entire aggregate incoming traffic is netflix, youtube and amazon video, therefore that's 40% at minimum which for certain is not porn.
LordDragonfang 6y ago
I tried specifically to find those numbers, but finally gave up since the most I could find was (barely) educated guessing on sites like quora. If anyone can find those numbers, I'd love to see it.