Re: geo short vs long term? [Re: Geo pros and cons]

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>]

On maandag, apr 7, 2003, at 22:56 Europe/Amsterdam, Kurt Erik Lindqvist 
wrote:

> > A 500 km detour (from Paris over Amsterdam or the other way around) 
> > is something we shouldn't consider out of the ordinary. In the US for 
> > example, only a tiny fraction of all traffic should be expected to 
> > stay within the same city or state. In Europe this is different for 
> > reasons such as language, and most countries have at least one 
> > interconnect location of national importance.
> But not all of them, or probably very little of total traffic is 
> exchanged over them. In % of total traffic I think most of European 
> traffic goes through fibers owned by Telehouse in London. Although not 
> the fibers of Linx or LoNAP but through the private interconnects.
From where I'm sitting most traffic seems to go through Amsterdam...

In your experience, is it common for traffic from a source in a certain 
country to a destination in the same country to flow through another 
country in general and through London in particular? And how common as 
a percentage of all destinations/all traffic?