{"id":5263,"date":"2008-12-08T13:55:30","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T21:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/internet-routing-around-us\/"},"modified":"2008-12-08T13:55:30","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T21:55:30","slug":"internet-routing-around-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/08\/internet-routing-around-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet routing around US"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tHere’s one more reason not to believe the claims of slow growth in Internet traffic in the US: the rest of the world is optimizing its routes.<\/a><\/p>\n

America is losing its position at the centre of the internet, according to a new study.<\/p>\n

The survey by communications analysts TeleGeography Research, based in Washington DC, shows a rapid growth in internet capacity around the rest of the world over the past year – particularly in Latin America and Asia.<\/p>\n

As a result, America’s traditional role as the internet’s traffic policeman is drifting away as other parts of the world become less reliant on it.<\/p>\n

“The US used to be a primary hub for many regions,” said Eric Schoonover, a senior analyst at TeleGeography. “A lot of data still comes through the US, and a lot of content there is served out to other countries \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 but its importance is declining, though it has by no means gone away.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

On aggregate, Internet traffic is probably growing faster than it has in years. You read it here.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s one more reason not to believe the claims of slow growth in Internet traffic in the US: the rest of the world is optimizing its routes. America is losing its position at the centre of the internet, according to a new study. The survey by communications analysts TeleGeography Research, based in Washington DC, shows … Continue reading “Internet routing around US”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-net-neutrality"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-1mT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}