PART 1: QUESTIONS

Date: Fri, 22 Sep 95 20:43:00 PDT
From: "Laurence I. Press" <[email protected]>
To: "Pimienta Daniel " <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Redes en el Caribe
Cc: [email protected], [email protected] Message-Id: <[email protected]>

Dear Saul, Daniel, and Archie,

I am writing a report on Cuba and am trying to put it in a Caribbean perspective, but am confused by what seem to be conflicting documents on Randy Bush's gopher.

The first is:

gopher://rip.psg.com/0R26740-40227-/networks/connect/caribbean by [email protected], which states that: "The addition of new UUCP nodes in Belize, Guyana, St. Vincent and Trinidad has driven user levels well above the two thousand (2,000) mark."

Then in gopher://rip.psg.com/0R0-24217-/networks/connect/caribbean, Daniel makes very differnt estimates based on assumptions of traffic per user and CUnet traffic figures.

Daniel estimates:
ISO-CODE AVG MBytes
PROJ.
POPULATION
COUNTRY COUNTRY
Per Month
USERS
(MILLION)
Antigua and Bermuda
AG
1.06
2
.07
Bahamas
BS
4.15
8
.25
Barbados
BB
8.59
17
.26
Belize
BZ
13.74
28
.19
Dominican Rep CUNET
DO
3.62
7
7.00
***Dominican Rep REDID
DO
60.00
120
7.00
Grenada
GR
0.63
1
.10
Guyana
GY
0.10
1
.80
St. Lucia
LC
11.72
24
.14
Vincent and Gren.
VC
0.79
2
.11
Suriname
SR
2.29
5
.42
Trinidad/Tobago
TT
17.14
34
1.30





TOTAL CUNET
 
66.92
129
10.64
TOTAL REDID
 
60.00
120
7.00

Well, 129 and 2,000 are pretty far apart, and I am confused. Can someone clear this up for me?
Thanks,

Larry Press

p. s. -- I am fighting a deadline, so a quick answer would be helpful.
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