[114490] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: how many BGP routers, how many ASes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Wed May 13 12:01:33 2009
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
To: Irfan Zakiuddin <irfan.zakiuddin@googlemail.com>
In-Reply-To: <9ba19d20905130853p30599f2euf8a32840da91207e@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 12:01:28 -0400
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On May 13, 2009, at 11:53 AM, Irfan Zakiuddin wrote:
> I have scouted around for this information, but not get very far. I'm
> hoping someone will have answers at hand.
You obviously didn't look very hard. The answer to the first question
is posted to this very list every Friday:
<http://www.cidr-report.org/as2.0/>
The last two are probably not really knowable with any precision, but
you might find some estimates. Although I'm not really sure what
utility the number is.
--
TTFN,
patrick
> What I want to know is roughly how many :
>
> 1. ASes there are in the world today?
> 2. BGP routers there are, for intra-domain as well as inter-domain
> routing,
> in total in the world?
> 3. BGP routers do the largest ASes have?
>
>
> Really interesting would then be to say either how fast the above
> numbers
> are growing, or to give estimates for what the answers to 1-3 will
> be in 5
> years time.
>
> An Internet source that provides the above information would be most
> useful
> - though I can't seem to find it with google.
>
> I'd be grateful for answer to be sent to me directly, whether you
> also post
> to NANOG is up to you.
>
> thanks in advance.
>
> irfan
>
