US consumers maynot have ample bandwidth, but from the looks of it, when it comes to sheer capacity, US is still the bandwidth big-daddy. This data collected by Telegeography says it all. Of course, it doesn’t mean anything to consumers who are thirsty for bandwidth! That’s the irony, isn’t it!
Top Internet Hub City: London, 1.1 Tbps bandwidth, 439 Gbps peak traffic.
Top Internet Hub Country: United States, 1.4 Tbps bandwidth, 704 Gbps peak traffic.
Top Internet Route: London – New York, 320 Gbps bandwidth, 153 Gbps peak traffic.
Top Region for Traffic Growth: Latin America, 70% average growth.
Top ISP by Autonomous System Connectivity: MCI, 3,102 connections.
Top ISP by Number of Countries Connected: AT&T, 52 countries.
Cheapest Place to Buy GigE Backbone Access: United States, $13 per Mbps per month
Highest International Bandwidth per Capita: Denmark, 38 Kbps per person.
surely London is the don dada, according to your analysis. the fact London is nigh on the same as the entire US, if i read this right, is very interesting.
Makes me wonder what the oversubscription rates are on other country’s cheap 10+ Mbps broadband services are, if they are paying more for backbone than US ISPs.
Very interesting data. Om – any thoughts on the VDSL market and likely ramp of FTTH? A lot of these have been more hype than reality to date, any thoughts would be appreciated. I am looking at an ipo for iKanos:
http://techstockblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/ikanos-next-broadcom.html
Om -
Andy King has a new issue of his Bandwidth Report out. US home users are about 65% on broadband, ranking up there with Slovenia. China broadband subscribers are growing at 90+%/yr and are looking to have the most total broadband users by end of year. See http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/0601/
thanks
Ed