[164965] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How big is the Internet?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Howard)
Wed Aug 14 14:30:02 2013
In-Reply-To: <alpine.GSO.2.00.1308141027270.24334@clifden.donelan.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 14:29:48 -0400
From: Scott Howard <scott@doc.net.au>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
To paraphrase Douglas Adams...
"The Internet is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly,
hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way
down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space!"
Scott
On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> 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).
>
>
>
