Internet traffic

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Example graph of web traffic at Wikipedia in December 2004
Example graph of web traffic at Wikipedia in December 2004

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.

[edit] Amount of traffic

The following table shows the amount of backbone traffic in the United States:

Year Data (GB/s)
1998 2–3
2000 7–13
2002 30–50

worldwide estimates:

Year Data (TB/s)
1994 0.006
1996 0.1
1997 0.2
1998 0.6
1999 1.6
2000 4.5
2001 11.3
2002 27.6

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