I have a friend who works at Black Lotus (and who may have written this blog post, who knows). Black Lotus is part of Lumen which is Level3 and CenturyLink and

I have a friend who works at Black Lotus (and who may have written this blog post, who knows). Black Lotus is part of Lumen which is Level3 and CenturyLink and is one of the biggest (if not the biggest) backbone traffic provider in the world, with a huge percentage of the worlds traffic transiting their network, and thus I think they get direct insight into the traffic including metrics on it.