Recently, Telegeography has published some information and facts for the telecommunication's world in the last year. One of the facts is related to the international IP bandwidth as given in the picture (at the top).Surely, except the numeric values, it might for many people not a surprise : North America is the center of todays' Internet. This actually has happened already for a long time, since the born of the Net :-D. As of 2007 the total aggregate bandwith capacity to/from North America is around 2.7 Tbps, a half of which is used to connect to Europe. Asian countries have an aggregate Internet bandwidth of around 0.9 Tbps, which is still below that owned by the european countries (1.7 Tbps). The capacity for Non-US/CA connections is only 0.2 Tbps. What does it mean ? The Internet would practically not work without US and Canada :-D ! This might also imply that US and Canada host the majority of the current Internet content!
But the figure might change in the next years. Though the increase of trans-atlantic IP bandwidth is still dominant compared to trans-pacific or other regions (see the picture at the bottom), the role of asian countries could in the future become more significant. The reason is simple: the asian countries are densely populated and have many potential Internet users/players!
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