Standarized Format for Exchange Point Traffic Recording & Interchange
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Project Team
Why?
- No data on Internet growth for the US since the disolution of the
NSFnet backbone
- Current data available from the nation's exchange points is all
different
Current participants
- Pacbell NAP
- Packet Clearning House
- Tuscon NAP
Committed participants
Data File Format
The basic file format should be simple and flexible. Like this:
<timestamp><TAB><data><CR>
Data should be mb/sec sampled every five minutes.
Tools should be available to do the following:
- Data collection
- Data aggregation
- Graphing
Extensions to the format
- packet cell loss
- PPs
- per organization bps/pps
- flows by tcp port
- RS/RA stats
Conclusions from data
- correlate major change of route policy and differences in
- traffic between major exchanges
- compare and contrast increase of traffic in regional exchanges
- coorelate outages in a regional area just to see how they effect
nationwide traffic levels
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