[164953] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How big is the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex)
Wed Aug 14 11:13:47 2013
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 18:10:53 +0300
From: Alex <dreamwaverfx@yahoo.com>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.GSO.2.00.1308141027270.24334@clifden.donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Current size is HUGE and growing at a phenomenal speed.
Public IP networks...just look at ARIN, RIPE,etc and see how many IPs
there are left.
Private networks and private IPs...well that is anyone's guess.
There are no estimates because everything changes rather fast and noone
can keep up with all this stuff.
The only thing you could have a really good estimate are the resources
used by your company and thats about it.
On 8/14/2013 5:32 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> Researchers have complained for years about the lack of good
> statistics about the internet for a couple fo decades, since the
> end of NSFNET statistics.
>
> What are the current estimates about the size of the Internet, all IP
> networks including managed IP and private IP, and all telecommunications
> including analog voice, video, sensor data, etc?
>
> CAIDA, ITU, Telegeography and some vendors like Cisco have released
> forecasts and estimates. There are occasional pieces of information
> stated by companies in their investor documents (SEC 10-K, etc).
>
>
