Title :
How much of the bandwidth do we actually use? An investigation of residential access traffic load
Author :
Aurelius, Andreas ; Arvidsson, Åke ; Heegard, Poul ; Villa, Bjørn ; Kihl, Maria ; Zhang, Yichi
Author_Institution :
Networking & Transm. Lab., Kista, Sweden
Abstract :
Internet traffic from a fibre based residential access network is investigated concerning traffic volumes and link load. Also the cost of the services is analyzed. We show that 1 Mbps accesses subscribers maintain high loads, and that the price they pay per GB used is five times higher than the one paid by 100 Mbps access subscribers.
Keywords :
Internet; optical computing; optical fibre networks; telecommunication traffic; Internet traffic; bit rate 1 Mbit/s; bit rate 100 Mbit/s; fibre based residential access network; link load; traffic volumes; Bandwidth; Broadband communication; Downlink; IP networks; Internet; Streaming media; Subscriptions; access networks; internet traffic; monitoring; traffic measurements;
Conference_Titel :
Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON), 2012 14th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Coventry
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2228-7
Electronic_ISBN :
2161-2056
DOI :
10.1109/ICTON.2012.6254387
