[114495] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: how many BGP routers, how many ASes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ricardo Oliveira)
Wed May 13 13:53:37 2009
From: Ricardo Oliveira <rveloso@cs.ucla.edu>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <9ba19d20905130853p30599f2euf8a32840da91207e@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 10:53:02 -0700
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you might want to have a look at:
http://irl.cs.ucla.edu/topology
--Ricardo
On May 13, 2009, at 8:53 AM, Irfan Zakiuddin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have scouted around for this information, but not get very far. I'm
> hoping someone will have answers at hand.
>
> 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
