Christmas holiday internet traffic double last year's. (Internet Focus).Britons had an `on-line Christmas' according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. figures from the London Internet Exchange
LinX Law Enforcement Information Exchange LINX Logistics Information Exchange ) which handles up to 96 per cent of the UK's, Internet traffic Internet traffic is the flow of data around the Internet. It includes web traffic, which is the amount of that data that is related to the World Wide Web, along with the traffic from other major uses of the Internet, such as electronic mail and peer-to-peer networks. . Data flow through LINX facilities peaked at more than 17 Gbit/second in the evening of Boxing Day and at over 15 Gbit/second in the evening of Christmas Christmas [Christ's Mass], in the Christian calendar, feast of the nativity of Jesus, celebrated in Roman Catholic and Protestant Churches on Dec. 25. In liturgical importance it ranks after Easter, Pentecost, and Epiphany (Jan. 6). Day itself. This is almost twice the level of traffic recorded on the same days last year when the Boxing Day peak was around 9 Gbit/second and Christmas Day traffic reached 8 Gbit/second.. Comment: `The timing of the traffic--with figures climbing fairly steadily throughout the day and peaking at around 9.00 in the evening--may reflect time differences between,people in the UK and their relatives overseas. Alternatively, it may mean that people settled down in front of their screens after their Christmas meals. "Whatever people were doing on-line during the holiday period, it is clear that the Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the has become a part of Christmas for an increasing number of them, providing both communication and entertainment.' On a normal working day LINX handles peak traffic flows of around 22 Gbit/second (a figure which itself increases almost every week) and normal weekend traffic flows peak at a slightly lower figure around 20 Gbit/second. One gigabit (Gbit) is 1,000 million bits of data. While Internet traffic consists of a wide variety of data, one gigabit is roughly equivalent to 60,000 average e-mail messages. Details of the traffic on the exchange can be found at www.linx.net/tools/stats/index.thtml. |
|
||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion