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From: Mike Lawrie <mlawrie@apies.frd.ac.za> To: netnews@apies.frd.ac.za Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 13:35:40 +0200 (GMT+0200) New Record for USA Traffic Today, a new record was set on Uninet for totaly throughput from the USA connection. The traffic level peaked at 3,079.5 Kbps, according to the mrtg graph on www.frd.ac.za/uninet/mrtg/usa.html. This exceeds the 3 Mbps capacity that was available in January. The previous peak was about two weeks ago, at a level of about 2,960 Kbps. There is still 500+ Kbps spare on the USA connection, and more bandwidth will be installed should it become apparent that the spare capacity is being used on a regular basis. The next expansion of USA capacity will take place out of UCT, and will use the services of Internet Solutions. This will give Uninet better resilience against backbone circuit failures. We are waiting on Telkom to complete the installation of the 2 Mbps circuit between UCT and the IS offices in Cape Town, in order for Uninet to be ready when the expansion becomes necessary. Another snippet on bandwidth. Uninet upgraded the CSIR.WITS capacity from 2 Mbps to 4 Mbps earlier this month. The throughput on this connection peaked at 3,540 Kbps yesterday, which is a record for backbone traffic. It would be interesting to know whether any other ISP has traffic volumes like this. We are ahead of the demand curve, and are determined to keep things that way. Mike -- Mike Lawrie, Phone: +27 12 481-4148 Manager:UNINET, Fax: +27 12 349-1179 Foundation for Research Development, <mlawrie@apies.frd.ac.za> P O Box 2600, Pretoria 0001 South Africa