[kictanet] KIXP reaches 1Gbps of traffic

[Solomon Mbũrũ Kamau]

Congratulations are in order.
Hope the next targeted ceiling will be achieved  ASAP.

This is great news.

On 15/07/2011, Michuki Mwangi <michuki.mwangi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Mwendwa,
>
> This are indeed good questions.
>
> On 7/15/11 10:01 PM, lordmwesh wrote:
>
>> Would you be kind to indicate that this data has grown to such levels
>> since google launched a local google global caching server locally,
>> hence most traffic is not going outside our beloved country, and since
>> then, the traffic to the IXP has grown ten fold?
>>
>
> Indeed majority of the traffic is Google. As you know according to Arbor
> Networks Google accounts for 6% of all Internet traffic. So you can
> imagine that it accounts to majority of the traffic at most IXPs
> considering they are the only CDN at KIXP.
>
> As more CDNs show up at KIXP then we can see the impact even more.
>
>
>> Does this mean our local data usage has increased?
>>
>
> Its a sign that our local data consumption is growing and broadband is
> improving since thats the largest use of the google cache.
>
> Regards,
>
> Michuki.
>
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