[164958] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How big is the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Saku Ytti)
Wed Aug 14 12:28:16 2013
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 19:27:59 +0300
From: Saku Ytti <saku@ytti.fi>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <alpine.GSO.2.00.1308141027270.24334@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On (2013-08-14 10:32 -0400), Sean Donelan wrote:
> 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?
One interesting datapoint might be how many OUI have been allocated, it's
about 18k, 2**24 potential MAC addresses in each, so we have 300billion MAC
addresses, which is smaller number than what I would have expected.
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